Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

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...

Gap Is Largest Since University Survey Began in 1997 Cynthia Tucker Leaving Atlanta Paper to Teach at J-School British Newspapers Back Police in Confronting Rioters...

Updated August 6 First Sports Journalist, One of Youngest to Lead Association NABJ Members Vote to “Seek Reunification” With Unity Belo Tops for News-Manager Diversity...

Updated August 9 Activist Says Black Journalists Would Be Part of His Show Association’s New Leader Still Wants Chances for Journalists Unity President “Encouraged” by...