Category : Maynard Institute archives

A 1945 Plea from the N.Y. Times’ First Black Reporter “It’s not my intention to make you feel more uneasy than you already do, under...

Black Journalists Focus on Gerald Boyd’s Fate A day after Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd resigned from the New York Times,...

San Diego Paper Wants to Double Number of Blacks The San Diego Union-Tribune wants to double the percentage of African Americans on its news staff...

Vegas Staffers Didn’t Get the Memo on Blackface “Life continues to be difficult for management at KVVU Channel 5, the Las Vegas Fox affiliate,” reports...

(Originally published 2003)   Dorothy Gilliam Honored After 35 Years at Post     Dorothy Gilliam ended 35 years at the Washington Post yesterday surrounded...

Reporters Skeptical, Friends Upbeat on Princell Hair Television beat reporters greeted the appointment of Princell Hair as CNN’s U.S. general manager with skepticism, linking him...

Mystery Writer: “White,” 80; Wrote “for Free” As reported by weeklies in Memphis and in the San Francisco Bay area, “for several years, the weekly...

Debra Adams Simmons Named Editor in Akron Debra Adams Simmons, managing editor of the Akron Beacon Journal since February, was promoted Friday to editor and...

Lawyers Say Times Saved Blair from Prosecution “Could the U.S. Attorney have invited Jayson Blair, the disgraced former reporter for the New York Times, to...

Jayson Blair Talking, or Is It the Drugs? Disgraced reporter Jayson Blair continues to talk — this time he’s in U.S. News & World Report...

Kudos to Those Who Recognize ’63 March Organizers As news stories are aired and written about tomorrow’s 40th anniversary commemoration of the 1963 March on...

Black Media Barons Keep Sharpton Bid Alive “Al Sharpton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination has so far attracted little support from voters, but plenty...