Category : Maynard Institute archives

Did Clinkscales’ Hubris Undo Vanguarde? Vanguarde Media CEO Keith Clinkscales, who announced last week that his company had decided to file for bankruptcy protection, liquidate...

(1) Weatherman Pleads Guilty, Loses Job African American men in television news seem to be catching more than their share this week. In Cleveland, David...

NAHJ Says Some Broadcast Execs Didn’t Get It While last week’s “Diversity Summit” between broadcast executives and journalist-of-color representatives produced some encouraging signs, “some broadcast...

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Reacts to a Serial Plagiarist Citing the case of former staff writer Khalil Abdullah, who was fired in 2001 for plagiarism, then...

Blacks Missing From “All-USA Academic Team” “Is it just me,” wrote one member of the National Association of Black Journalists on NABJ’s e-mail list Thursday,...

Ranks #1 When Comparing Staff With Community The Gannett Co. is the leading newspaper group when comparing the presence of journalists of color in newsrooms...

Sharpton Appearance Boosts “SNL” Ratings Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton gave NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” its highest “overnight” ratings in nine months despite the refusal...

Reporter, Head of NABJ Chapter, Fired for Plagiarism On the same weekend as the Jayson Blair book was released, a reporter for Georgia’s Macon Telegraph...

Boyd to Launch Columbia J-School Experiment Gerald Boyd has been chosen to experiment at the Columbia School of Journalism with a teaching method that is...

Magazine Sorry for “Gay or Asian?” Piece “One cruises for chicken; the other takes it General Tso-style,” begins the copy next to the photo of...

Forget Janet — Natives Outraged About OutKast CBS has apologized to Native Americans angered by OutKast’s Grammy Awards performance, which featured feathers and war paint,...

Pulitzer Honorees of Color Together at Last The largest gathering of Pulitzer Prize winners of color in journalism — and the first joining African Americans,...