Media Managers of Color Tell What It Takes
Media Managers of Color Tell What It Takes “There’s always a gnawing shadow,” says one of the successful media managers of color who responded to...
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Local Blacks Criticize St. Petersburg Times
Local Blacks Criticize St. Pete Times The St. Petersburg, Fla., NAACP challenged the Times Publishing Co. Tuesday to appoint an African American to its all-white...
NPR Dropping Kojo Nnamdi’s “Public Interest”
NPR Dropping Kojo Nnamdi’s “Public Interest” ” Public Interest ,” the daily midday talk show hosted by Kojo Nnamdi , is being dropped by National...
“Teen Summit” Added to BET Hit List
“Teen Summit” Added to BET Hit List “Teen Summit,” the 13-year-old brainchild of Black Entertainment Television co-founder Sheila Johnson, will be ending its run as...
Renee Poussaint, Camille Cosby in Oral History Project
Renee Poussaint, Camille Cosby in Oral History Project The New York Times and Washington Post featured stories over the weekend on the efforts of Camille...
An NABJ Wedding — Is TV Movie Next?
An NABJ Wedding — Is TV Movie Next? Is this a TV movie? Adaora Udoji and Ron Allen, television news correspondents, were married Saturday by...
Congressional Black Caucus Issues Threat Over Cable Ownership
Black Caucus Issues Threat Over Cable Ownership “Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are turning up the heat on the cable TV industry, demanding more...
Asian Journalists Get $100,000, Largest-Ever Gift
Asian Journalists Get $100,000, Largest-Ever Gift A longtime Dallas civil-rights activist gave $100,000 to the Asian American Journalists Association, the largest-ever gift from an individual...
Chastened FCC Approves Equal Opportunity Rules
Chastened FCC Approves Equal Opportunity Rules The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously approved new equal opportunity employment regulations that don’t specifically target women and minorities,...
Where’s Outrage Over Latest TV Changes at NBC? Columnist Asks
Where’s Outrage Over Latest TV Changes? Columnist Asks When NBC announced that the tanned, well-tailored Brian Williams would take over TV’s highest-rated network newscast in...
From Another Century, a Liberating 9/11 Story
From Another Century, a Liberating 9/11 Story At a time when every magazine from Vanity Fair to Bird Talk contains an anniversary article on the...
In U.K., an Echo of African American Columnists’ Concerns
In U.K., an Echo of African American Columnists’ Concerns Gary Younge writes a column for the Guardian newspaper in England, one of the very few...