Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

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...

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,...

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

Tom Joyner Show Has Waiting List for Advertisers Rather than scaring off advertisers, the activism of syndicated radio host Tom Joyner is attracting them, reports...

ESPN to Launch 24-Hour Spanish Channel ESPN plans to expand ESPN Desportes, its Spanish-language sports network, to a 24-hour format in the third quarter of...

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...

Can Pamela Thomas-Graham Revive CNBC? Pamela Thomas-Graham became president of CNBC last year with impressive credentials: She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard...