Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...