Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

Blair’s Role Said to Taint Times’ Sniper Coverage Jayson Blair charmed his way past his mistakes at the New York Times, but his questionable reporting...

Unity Urges Broadcast Summit on Diversity Unity: Journalists of Color, the umbrella group for the associations of black, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American journalists,...

Slain Photog’s Husband Found Guilty “After four days of deliberation, an Alameda County jury today found a 41-year-old Oakland man guilty of second-degree murder in...

Richard Prince’s Book Notes: 10 to Start Summer As the summer reading season begins, a collection of first-hand reports on the civil rights movement, along...

“Latino” vs. “Hispanic”: NAHJ President’s View A “somewhat hidden but contentious debate” is going on over how a certain linguistic group should identify itself —...