Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

Hampton U. Task Force Backs Free Student Press Seven weeks after the acting president of Hampton University seized the entire press run of the student...

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...

N.Y. Times’ Jayson Blair Resigns Under Pressure   “Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who copied portions of a Texas newspaper’s story about a...

Will N.Y. Times Seek Veteran Journalists of Color? During the Jayson Blair fiasco, a number of veteran journalists of color noted that if The New...

Carole Simpson Loses ABC Weekend Anchor Job Carole Simpson, an Emmy-winning senior correspondent at ABC News, announced last night that she was vacating the weekend...

On Brinkley: “For All of Us Here . . . Thank You” David Brinkley, who died Wednesday at 82, will be remembered for his wit,...

Final Call Editor Quits After Retracting Story The editor of the Nation of Islam’s weekly newspaper has resigned in the wake of the publication of...

ASNE Chief Cites Lack of Contrition at Hampton One reason the American Society of Newspaper Editors pulled its high-school journalism program from Hampton University is...

Will Wright Quits BET, Says He Wants a Life Veteran broadcaster Will J. Wright has left “BET Nightly News,” where he was executive producer, four...

FCC OKs Creation of Spanish Media Powerhouse “Federal regulators on Monday approved the merger of the leading Hispanic TV power Univision Communications with the top...