Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

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...