Category : Maynard Institute archives

Updated August 4   At the opening ceremonies of the Native American Journalists Association conference Thursday in Albuquerque, N.M., members danced with traditional Native dancers...

  Lucia Whalen said she had been hurt by commentators who thought she called police when she saw Henry Louis Gates Jr. and his driver...

The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. in Cambridge, Mass., brought to mind this experience with the District of Columbia police as a young reporter...

Women Rise, Journalists of Color Fall in Local TV, Radio "The latest RTNDA/Hofstra University Annual Survey finds women make up over 41 percent of the...

Gates’ theRoot.com, Gets Ugly Comments "It was probably inevitable that in the furor over the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., some...

Bay Area Papers Trim More of Their Staffs Newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area are shrinking their staffs again, and the casualties have included...

Caption:¬† Star Editor Janice Min Stepping Down from Us Weekly "Janice Min, the editor who turned Us Weekly into one of magazine publishing’s major success...

Sonia Sotomayor, all smiles, arrives July 15 for Day 3 of her confirmation hearings. (Credit: talkradionews) Sotomayor Hearings Viewed as They Began:  Differently The Senate...

Updated July 18 ABC’s Peter Jennings, left, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CNN’s Bernard Shaw with Walter Cronkite in New York in 1988. "If he did...

Kevin Chappell of Ebony and Jet magazines was among seven black-press journalists who flew with President Obama. "Immediately, I noticed a difference from my first...

Some newspapers fashioned their front – and back – pages as collectors’ items. Since His Death, Entertainer "Drove the News Agenda" "Tuesday’s lavish Michael Jackson...

On Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart poked fun at the senators who labeled Sonia Sotomayor a racist in a segment called, "White Men...