Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

Black Media, Small and Large, at “Homegoing” The funeral for singer Luther Vandross in New York today was a cornucopia of Jet moments: those times...

Black Columnists Rip Senators Who Opted Out The Senate’s apology for its inaction on lynchings and the trial in Mississippi in the 1964 deaths of...

Original posting: June 22, 2005 Action Mirrors Spinoffs That Target Hispanics The New York Times Co. is starting a “black” newspaper in Gainesville, Fla., mirroring...

Journalist Published “Morris Memo” Newsletter Carl Morris, who helped build the National Association of Black Journalists as an early, longtime executive director, a founder of...

Originally published June 2004 “Arguably, the Best Sports Commentary on the Web” Ralph Wiley, author, columnist and former senior writer for Sports Illustrated, died Sunday...

Originally published June 9, 2004 Darts Pierce Reagan Puff Pieces Four days after Ronald Reagan died, the news media have begun to temper the orgy...

With D-Day Anniversary, a Chance to Tell Full Story “The role of blacks on D-Day isn’t well-known,” Lance Gay writes for Scripps Howard News Service....