Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

Ed Gordon Hoping BET Will Change Its Mind With “BET Tonight With Ed Gordon” on Black Entertainment Television’s chopping block effective at the end of...

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...

Star-Telegram Tells About Its Bad Old Days As part of its series, “The Color of Hate: How the Jim Crow era shamed and shaped our...

Black Journalist-Military Expert Has Own Web Site LeRoy Woodson Jr. showed up on public radio’s “To The Point” Thursday night as a military expert talking...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

‘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,...