Category : Maynard Institute archives

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...