Category : Maynard Institute archives

Black Lifestyles Magazine Went for $600,000 Jungle Media, the New York company that bought Savoy magazine at a bankruptcy auction last month and now has...

Few Black Editors Found at Mainstream Magazines A survey of the editorial leadership of American magazines “has found only nine top editors — defined by...

First Openings Funded by Kroc Money Announced National Public Radio has announced the first editorial positions it plans to fill with the $15 million it...

Embattled Student Outlet Lacks Editorial Adviser The student newspaper at Hampton University, which won national attention last year when the administration confiscated an issue, failed...

Elder Statesman Urged Knowing One’s History Vernon Jarrett, legendary Chicago journalist who counted Paul Robeson, W.E.B. DuBois and Chicago Mayor Harold Washington among his heroes,...

Event Could Host 10,000 Journalists in 2008 Registration for the Unity convention at the Washington Convention Center reached 8,158 this morning, exceeding projections, Unity president...

First Amendment Case at Small Black College? The chairwoman of the Communications Department at Edward Waters College, a small historically black school in Jacksonville, Fla.,...

Richard Prince’s Book Notes?: Serious Again With fall approaching, summer reading gives way to more serious fare. Since it’s been a while since the last...

But New Hampton J-Dean “Kowtows to No One” Tony Brown, the longtime host of television’s “Tony Brown’s Journal” named yesterday to become dean of Hampton...

Updated January 11 The Dumb Question That Irritated Ashford & Simpson Opinion Team Leaders Reassigned to Newsroom The Washington Times, the daily newspaper voice of...

New Institute, Grist for Book, a Last Laugh Vernon Jarrett, the legendary Chicago journalist who died Sunday, would joke privately about how many different ages...

Village Voice Lays Off Thulani Davis, Tate Cuts Back The turmoil at New York’s Village Voice that last week claimed one of its two executive...