Category : Maynard Institute archives

Press Club Sticks by “Coloring the News” The National Press Club is sticking by its decision to give its press criticism book award to William...

Newspaper Publishers’ Diversity Chief Considers Buyout Toni Laws, senior vice president for diversity at the Newspaper Association of America, the newspaper publishers’ trade association, is...

FCC’s Powell Rejects Calls to Delay Decision A day after Unity, the coalition of journalists of color, asked the Federal Communications Commission to delay action...

Assaulted Minneapolis Reporters Have No Regrets Star Tribune reporters Howie Padilla and David Chanen, assaulted by a group of African Americans in North Minneapolis after...

People of Color Appearing — Slowly — on Magazine Covers A survey of 471 covers from 31 magazines published in 2002 – an array of...

Former Consumer Reporter Wins Election in Birmingham Sheila Smoot, who as a Birmingham, Ala., television reporter was a board member of the National Association of...

2nd Hispanic Journalist Protests Award to Anti-Gay An ABC network correspondent and a prominent Univision talk show host have pulled out as hosts of a...

Now Media Can Disclose the Other “Trent Lotts” The Trent Lott affair is giving the news media a welcomed chance to disclose the heretofore undereported...

Editor Decries the Racism in Her City “The racism here is sickening. It is both subtle and blatant,” writes executive editor Juli Metzger of the...

Sniper Suspects’ Race Surprises Talking Heads The fact that the two suspects in custody in the Washington, D.C., area sniper killings are African American has...

Fox Makes Fun of Antiwar Protesters When 500 antiwar demonstrators staged a “die-in” during the morning rush hour near Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center, home to such...

Women Still “Tokens” at Top in Media Firms Women are often “significantly underrepresented” throughout such firms as Fox Entertainment Group, USA Networks, AOL Time Warner,...