Category : Maynard Institute archives

ASNE Pulls Out of Hampton U. Over Confiscation The American Society of Newspaper Editors today told Hampton University it was pulling from that campus its...

Glenn Rice Received “Strong Disciplinary Actions” Kansas City star reporter Glenn E. Rice, who resigned as treasurer of the National Association of Black Journalists after...

Robert Ruggles Retiring as FAMU J-Dean Robert Ruggles is resigning as founding dean of Florida A&M University’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communication, one of...

N.Y. Times Reporter, 27, in Plagiarism Flap “The Jayson Blair story opens by describing the nostalgia that would overcome Juanita [Angulano] as she looked around...

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...

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...