Category : Maynard Institute archives

Nominee Includes Journalists in Unity Speech Sen. John Kerry told 5,000 delegates to the Unity convention in Washington this morning that “I will expand opportunities...

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...

Local News Staffs Will Add to GOP Coverage For next week’s Republican convention, “A glance at the coveted list of credentialed news organizations listed publications...

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...

Grown-Up “Crack Babies” Belie Media Predictions of ’80s “Crack hit the streets in 1984, and by 1987 the press had run more than 1,000 stories...

They Came to the PUSH Hall “From Every Arena” “A drizzling rain fell as more than 1,000 people turned out Saturday to say farewell to...

Third-Generation Yale Grad Surprises Unity Crowd President Bush told the Unity convention that he opposes so-called “legacy admissions” to colleges — the policy of favoring...

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.,...

Veteran Broadcaster, 71, Opened Howard U School Tony Brown, the longtime host of television’s “Tony Brown’s Journal” who was the founding dean of Howard University’s...

Newspaper Co. Has 18.6% Journalists of Color The Gannett Co., announcing the results of its annual “All-American Review,” told its member papers that 36 newspaper...

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...

L.A. Times Trims 62 From Newsroom Tribune Co., publishers of 14 newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Orlando...