On Convention Coverage: Get Over It
Sharpton Praised Though Networks Were Elsewhere On Wednesday night, Al Sharpton gave still another oration at the Democratic National Convention that drew praise but went...
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Top-Level Appointment at ABC-TV
Paul Mason Named Sr. VP of News “Paul Mason, an Emmy-winning 23-year veteran of ABC News, has been named senior VP of ABC News,...
2 Paths to “Street Cred”
(originally published Aug. 20, 2004) 1) Peggy Peterman Fought Inside and Outside Peggy Peterman spoke for many black columnists when, on a 1995 panel at...
Black Reporters Quiz John Kerry Surrogates
Sharpton, Mel Watt Queried on Choice of Edwards A day after Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., was named to the ticket, the John Kerry for President...
Latino Honors, Latino Tragedy
NAHJ Awards Go to Stories on Immigration, Iraq “We’re hearing a lot of sad, sad stories,” reporter Mandelit del Barco of National Public Radio said...
“Such an Outrageous Request”
Bush Campaign Wanted to Know Photog’s Race “President Bush’s re-election campaign insisted on knowing the race of an Arizona Daily Star journalist assigned to photograph...
“Bigger, Richer, Happier”
Reagan Policies Changed Landscape for Media The news media’s week-long coverage of the times of Ronald Reagan has largely ignored the 40th president’s impact on,...
Detroit’s “Reporter’s Reporter”
Bob Bennett, 37 Years in Business, Dead at 64 Bob Bennett was a retired Detroit television reporter “who coworkers affectionately call Boomer, who the late...
Plea from Dead Man’s Friend
Journalists Asked for Help in Hanging Case When Roy Veal’s body was found hanging from a tree in Woodville, Miss., in April, it became a...
From Newsroom to Pulpit
Another Quits to Pursue Religious Studies Marlene L. Johnson, an assistant metro editor at the Washington Times, is retiring from the paper next week to...
“Agitate . . . Agitate . . . Agitiate”
“Agitate . . . Agitate . . . Agitiate” Today’s 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education reminds us...
Washington Bureaus Under Scrutiny
Survey Documents Whiteness of Papers’ D.C. Faces “Less than 10.5 percent of the reporters, correspondents, columnists, editors and bureau chiefs in the Washington daily newspaper...