Category : Maynard Institute archives

Some Bureaus Closing; “People en Español” Spared Time Inc. — whose magazine properties include Essence and People en Español in addition to Time, Sports Illustrated,...

News Chief Says Network’s Reputation Was at Stake “Effective immediately, MSNBC will no longer simulcast the ‘Imus in the Morning’ radio program,” the network announced...

Marti Buscaglia Loses Job-to-Be at O.C. Register Marti Buscaglia, the publisher of the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune who was about to assume that job at...

Little Room for Tragedy of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq The news about Navy Corpsman Manuel Ruiz didn’t stand a chance.     Ruiz, a 21-year-old...

Herbert Lowe Leaves; Keith Herbert Arrives Herbert Lowe, a seven-year reporter at Newsday and president of the National Association of Black Journalists from 2003 to...

Figures Are Brighter at Papers’ Online Operations “The percentage of minority journalists working in America’s daily newsrooms declined slightly to 13.62 percent this year, according...

Ex-Congressman’s Family Claimed Privacy Invaded     Parren J. Mitchell, founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and Maryland’s first African American member of Congress,...

Jet Magazine’s Simeon Booker Retires at 88 After a career of more than 50 years in which he chronicled the civil rights movement, became the...

Network Chief Cites Effect of Language on Youth “CBS today announced its decision to cease broadcasting the Imus in the Morning radio program, effective immediately,...

Candidates Praise “Fairness” of Howard U. Session Cornel West was looking somewhat austere, dressed all in black, wearing his Afro, his glasses and his goatee,...

Urban Workshops Become “Race-Neutral” A group that actively works against affirmative action programs has succeeded in changing the purpose of urban journalism programs designed to...

Former Newsweek Editor to Oversee Newsgathering Mark Whitaker, former editor of Newsweek and a veteran journalist of nearly three decades, will join NBC News as...