Howard University Paper Suspends Print Edition
News to Be Transmitted Online Amid Financial Woes Howard University’s student newspaper the Hilltop is suspending print publication until the university’s May commencement but will...
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Petitioning Northwestern
Blacks Protest Cancellation of Jeremiah Wright Honor African American students and alumni at Northwestern University — including some graduates of its highly regarded journalism school...
Super Bowl Upset
Patriots Too Arrogant? . . . and a Note on Perspective The New England Patriots, a 12-to-13-point favorite to beat the New York Giants Sunday...
2 Reporters Freed at Last
Bearak Released in Zimbabwe, Hussein in Iraq “A court in Zimbabwe on Wednesday dismissed charges against a reporter for The New York Times, Barry...
World’s Largest Will Be a Bit Smaller
Unity Attendance Adjusting to Industry Turmoil Four years ago at the Washington Convention Center in the nation’s capital, the president of Unity: Journalists...
Explaining the Explainers
Networks, Columnists, Pundits Are Critiqued “It’s official: the networks no longer cover news, they slap it onto the bottom edge of their regular programming like...
N.Y. Post Fires Black Reporter
Blair Sued Cops After Stop-and-Frisk Incident “The New York Post has canned a black reporter who is suing the NYPD for civil rights violations stemming...
Pundits Reach for Obama Comparisons
Commentators Weigh In on New Front-Runner Pundits likened Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to everyone from Ronald Reagan to Harold Washington as New Hampshire voters prepared...
Making News With Rice, Clinton, Obama
Critic Has Questions for Reporters on Bosnia Trip Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave Sen. Barack Obama perhaps some unexpected support in his call for...
Pat Tobin Dies, Beloved P.R. Activist
Single Mom Linked Toyota to Community Groups Pat Tobin, a beloved public relations practitioner who co-founded the National Black Public Relations Society, died of cancer...
“Súper Empate” (“Super Tie”)
Media Take In Voter Complaints, Report on a “Draw” Radio’s syndicated “Tom Joyner Morning Show” monitored calls from citizens reporting voter irregularities, the weekly Afro-American...
ABC Defends Debate Questions
“Tough but Appropriate,” Stephanopoulos Says After an unusual backlash from both viewers and fellow journalists to the questioning of Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton...