Category : Maynard Institute archives

Survey Compares Staffs With Communities Here are the least-white communities with all-white newsrooms: The Independent, Gallup, N. M., circulation area is 93 percent nonwhite. The...

Canadian From West Indies to Edit Essence Spinoff Photo (New York Post) Suzanne Boyd, editor-in-chief of Canada’s Flare magazine and twice named to Canada’s best-dressed...

Raines: “Important, Explanatory Point” Was Missed Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines writes that it was learning that disgraced reporter Jayson Blair had...

Austin Series Looks Under “Veneer of Liberalism” “We’ve raised the temperature around town with this series,” on unequal use of force by police, writes editor...

Forbes Writer Describes a “Walking Contradiction” Brett Pulley, a senior editor at Forbes magazine, says that “black businesses are not used to being scrutinized like...

Beating Death Puts Cincinnati in Media Spotlight “By Monday, the videotape of six officers engaged in a violent struggle Sunday with a 350-pound [black] man...

3 Figures Among Bidders for Vanguarde At least three figures are bidding for the assets of Vanguarde Media, Inc., the publishers of Savoy, Savoy Professional,...

Editor Going Overseas; Critic Part-Time to Harvard When last we left Elvis Mitchell, he had quit his position as film critic for the New York...

“Diversity Summit” Report Greeted by Criticism A report that a “diversity summit” took place Friday between broadcast news executives and leaders of the journalist of...

Writer Finds Room for Satire With Kelley, Blair “My Caucasians, oh my Caucasians, what doth the future hold?” begins a satire on the Poynter Institute...

Long Island U. Shuts Down Campus Paper “Long Island University has shaken up the top brass of its Brooklyn campus student newspaper, Seawanhaka, after the...

ASNE Figures Show Barest Increase in Diversity “Newsrooms at U.S. daily newspapers collectively improved their diversity by nearly a half of one percentage point in...