Category : Maynard Institute archives

Clinkscales, Others Drop Out of Bidding Black Enterprise magazine publisher Earl G. Graves appears to be the leading candidate to win the bidding for the...

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...

Mentor to “At-Risk” Kids Faces Abuse Charges Cincinnati television reporter Stephen Hill, who mentored “at-risk” children and has served as a licensed foster parent, was...

Julian Bond Looks at Post-Brown White Houses News media commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision dutifully...

“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...

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...

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...