Category : Maynard Institute archives

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...

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...

Originally published April 18, 2005 NABJ, University Leaders Face Off on J-Program Armed with reports from journalism students that they felt intimidated by administrators at...

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...

Veteran Broadcaster, 71, Opened Howard U School Tony Brown, the longtime host of television’s “Tony Brown’s Journal” who was the founding dean of Howard University’s...

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....