Category : Maynard Institute archives

Survey of Blacks Reports Continuing Dissatisfaction “Blacks are not satisfied with how they are portrayed by the media. Only 29 percent agree that the mainstream...

NAHJ Honoree Gets News After 5 Months in Limbo “Rebecca Aguilar’s 14-year career as a Fox4 reporter has officially ended via a letter from an...

Media Matters Hits “Wild . . . Myths” on Immigration A “trio of cable news bullies is advancing baseless urban legends and wild accusations targeting...

Elliott Wilson, XXL Editor for 9 Years, Shown the Door Elliott Wilson, editor of XXL magazine, which claims to be the largest in the hip-hop...

Anchor Diann Burns, Reporter Romo Among 18 Out   Chicago television anchor Diann Burns and reporter Rafael Romo are among “around 18 WBBM-Ch. 2 staffers...

Journalists Play Role in Fact-Checking “History” It was three weeks ago at the Cannes Film Festival that filmmaker Spike Lee threw down the gauntlet. “Speaking...

76% of Papers Had Strips Without Characters of Color As the “Cartoonists of Color Sit-In” was about to take place this past Sunday, Karisue Wyson...

Obama Won’t Agree to Matchup Sunday on CBS On the eve of the Pennsylvania primary and in the wake of criticism that last week’s ABC-TV...

CNN Survey Finds Gap Between Blacks, Whites Whites and African Americans start from such different places in discussing race that it should be no surprise...

AME Pamela Moreland, Columnist L.A. Chung Out Assistant Managing Editor Pamela Moreland and longtime columnist L.A. Chung are among 10 newsroom employees of color out...

NABJ Knocks Comment About Black Journalists Geraldine Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic vice presidential candidate and supporter of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, has demonstrated “unapologetic bigotry” in...

2 Black Women in First Round of Sun-Times Layoffs Just three days earlier, Avis Weathersbee, the highest ranking journalist of color in the Chicago Sun-Times...