Category : Maynard Institute archives

Reflections on Legendary N.Y. Times Editor “Abe was not politically correct. He didn’t like homosexuals. He was not happy with the feminist movement, and it’s...

A Reminder Not to Forget Reports of Racial Insults As coverage of the Duke lacrosse scandal continued to generate controversy, New York Times Public Editor...

Site Team Recommends Provisional Accreditation An accrediting team has recommended two-year provisional accreditation for Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, citing a...

A year in the quest for a news media that looks like America: 1. More Than 2,000 Newspaper Jobs Lost     More than 2,000...

786 Apply to Cover “Millions More Movement” More than 700 requests for press credentials are being processed for coverage of Saturday’s Millions More Movement, the...

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Blacks Weigh Response to Editor’s Firing The Gainesville Guardian, the New York Times Co. weekly originally portrayed as targeting the African American community in that...

Study Documents Whiteness of Talk Shows “Only 8 percent of the guests on the major Sunday morning talk shows over the past 18 months were...

Questions on Reporting Assumptions, Photo Choice The suicide of Miami politician Arthur Teele Jr. Wednesday night in the lobby of the Miami Herald building —...

Publishers Aim for 18- to 29-Year-Olds An alliance of black publishers has hired a New York investment-banking firm to raise $15 million to start a...

Editor Mark Whitaker Spends Day in Hot Seat In an embarrassing episode for editor Mark Whitaker, “Newsweek magazine, under fire for publishing a story that...