Category : Maynard Institute archives

Wall St. Journal Lays Off Highest Ranking Journalist of Color The list of layoffs at the Wall Street Journal includes Carolyn Phillips, who as assistant...

Michael Jack Named NBC Diversity Chief, Succeeding Paula Madison Michael Jack, former president and general manager of the NBC-owned TV station in Columbus, Ohio, has...

Black Conservative Blasts Washington Post Writers The Wall Street Journal editorial page gave space Friday to John McWhorter, a black California professor now affiliated with...

How News Media Were Slow on Lott Story When Trent Lott praised the 1948 segregationist candidacy of Strom Thurmond, most of the mainstream press was,...

Percentage of Minorities in TV News Dips; Women News Directors Rise There are more women news directors than ever, the Radio-Television News Directors Association reported...

‘Hispanic-Looking’ Man in Custody Again A man in a white minivan who was taken into custody today in Richmond, Va., amid suspicions that the Washington,...

Connie Chung Show Dumped by CNN CNN has told Connie Chung, one of its most prominent anchors, that it has dropped her prime-time program, effective...

Black Journalist Says GM Crashed His Career Did corporate giant General Motors crush the career of an award-winning black journalist in retaliation for this reporter’s...

Condoleeza Rice Links ’63 Bombing With Today’s Terrorism National security adviser Condoleezza Rice, who was growing up in Birmingham, Ala., during the 1963 church bombing...

Why “Scrubs” Is More Diverse Than “Friends” “NBC’s approach to diversity is ensemble casting,” says Paula Madison, general manager of NBC’s station in Los Angeles...

NPR Still Struggling for Diversity Although National Public Radio’s choice of Melissa Block this week to fill an anchor seat on its signature program “All...

In 2002, Top Newspaper Jobs Eluded Journalists of Color David M. Shribman, the Boston Globe’s Washington bureau chief and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, last week...