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Jordan Millions to Boost Journalists of Color

Morehouse, Ida B. Wells Society to Benefit
Donna Brazile Leaves Fox for ABC News
Reporter Sues Lightfoot Over Denial of Interview
As Tulsa Riot Is Recalled, Other Atrocities Surface
Bloomberg Picks 50 for Diversity Program

Updated May 29

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We want to help people understand the truth of our past, and help tell the stories that will shape our future,” Michael Jordan said. (Credit: ESPN/”Last Dance”)

Morehouse, Ida B. Wells Society to Benefit

Basketball legend Michael Jordan and the Jordan Brand announced Friday they are contributing grants to Morehouse College to expand its journalism and sports program, to the Ida B. Wells Society, which trains investigative journalists, and to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The $1 million commitment to Morehouse, over two years, will help fund scholarships, technology and educational programming for students studying journalism and sports-related areas of study, the college said in a statement.

The Wells Society, headquartered at the University of North Carolina, Jordan’s alma mater, also receives $1 million over two years. Its mission is “increasing the ranks, retention and profile of reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting.” The society was founded in 2016 by journalists Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ron Nixon, Topher Saunders and Corey Johnson.

The inaugural Ida B. Wells Society investigative reporting boot camp at North Carolina Central University in Durham. (Credit: Ida B. Wells Society)

The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington receives $3 million over three years.

The donations come under Jordan’s “Black Community Commitment” announced a year ago “to donate $100 million over 10 years to directly impact the fight against systemic racism.”

“These multi-year grants are being made to organizations that help shape the narrative of the Black experience in media and popular culture,” Jordan and Jordan Brand said in a news release from Nike. “Our grantees’ critical work includes education about Black history, improving the way Black stories are told, expanding sports journalism education and opportunity for students at HBCUs, and promoting leadership development among journalists and storytellers.

“ ‘Education is crucial for understanding the Black experience today,’ says Michael Jordan. ‘We want to help people understand the truth of our past, and help tell the stories that will shape our future.’ ”

Morehouse said in its statement, “For fifteen years, Morehouse’s Journalism and Sports Program has addressed a distinct need — the lack of Black leadership in sports journalism and athletics. Launched through Spike Lee’s philanthropic efforts and led by award-winning journalist Ron Thomas, the program has educated and professionally developed more than 600 students from Morehouse and the Atlanta University Center, producing more than 80 graduates who now work in media and sports and almost 40 graduates who have earned master’s degrees in those fields.

“ ‘Morehouse is grateful to Michael Jordan and Jordan Brand for an investment in the education of talented men of color who will ensure there is equity, balance, and truth in the way sports stories are framed and the way the Black experience is contextualized within American history,’ said Monique Dozier, vice president for institutional advancement at Morehouse.”

Donna Brazile said, “With the election and President Biden’s first 100 days behind us, I’ve accomplished what I wanted at Fox News.’

Donna Brazile Leaves Fox for ABC News

Former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile has joined ABC News as a political contributor, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed,” The Hollywood Reporter said Friday. “Brazile appeared on the May 23 edition of ABC’s Sunday public affairs show This Week, where she was identified as a contributor.

“ ‘When my contract expired, they offered me an additional 2-4 years,’ Brazile told The Daily Beast in a text message,” Justin Baragona and Maxwell Tani of The Daily Beast reported. “ ‘But I decided to return to ABC.’

“Brazile went on to add that over the past two years, Fox News had allowed her to make multiple appearances on ABC News’ Sunday news show This Week, adding that ‘all is good’ between her and Fox.

“Brazile had been a Democratic contributor to Fox News Channel since March 2019, earning the ire of then-President Donald Trump, who claimed that by hiring her Fox was trying to be ‘politically correct.’

The Hollywood Reporter continued, “Brazile told The New Yorker at the time of her hiring that ‘if you want to help the country, if you want to try to improve democracy, you have to go into places where you are uncomfortable and try to stir things up.’

“Her return to ABC was first reported by Variety. . . .”

Michael M. Grynbaum quoted Brazile in The New York Times. ” ‘Fox never censored my views in any way,’ she wrote in an email. ‘Everyone treated me courteously as a colleague.’ Ms. Brazile added: ‘I believe it’s important for all media to expose their audiences to both progressive and conservative viewpoints. With the election and President Biden’s first 100 days behind us, I’ve accomplished what I wanted at Fox News.’

Reporter Sues Lightfoot Over Denial of Interview

The Daily Caller News Foundation and one of its reporters is suing Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) over her policy of granting one-on-one media interviews only to people of color,” Thomas Moore reported Thursday for The Hill. Lightfoot’s “policy” actually applied only for one day, the second anniversary of her tenure as mayor. It is a point several reports missed.

“The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois accuses Lightfoot of ignoring an interview request from Thomas Catenacci (pictured), a reporter for the conservative publication, because he is not a ‘journalist of color.’

“The suit, filed by conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch, claims Lightfoot violated Catenacci’s First Amendment and equal protection rights.”

Media reports have noted a May 19 tweet by Gregory Pratt, who covers Chicago’s City Hall: “I am a Latino reporter @chicagotribune whose interview request was granted for today. However, I asked the mayor’s office to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.”

But the Associated Press again pointed out that Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, the first Native American to lead the Department of the Interior, gave her first interview in office to Native American journalists, and Kamala Harris gave her first as vice presidential nominee to The 19th, an outlet aimed at empowering women. Harris is the nation’s first female vice president.

Fortune magazine writes, “What happened in Tulsa set a standard for the erasure of Black wealth and humanity that, over time, has become business as usual: redlining, gentrification, underserved communities filled with undervalued homes, and lack of access to capital markets and venture investment. It was a victory for white supremacy.” (Credit: NBC News)

As Tulsa Riot Is Recalled, Other Atrocities Surface

The media are finally coming to grips with the white riot that destroyed Tulsa’s Black Wall Street 100 years ago, leaving as many as 300 dead and 10,000 homeless. But on the weekend of the commemoration, other horrific atrocities are coming to light.

In the print edition of Saturday’s Washington Post, Luisa Beck, Max Bearak and Shinovene Immanuel
reported from Berlin, “Germany’s government acknowledged Friday that it committed genocide during its colonial occupation of what is now Namibia and promised more than $1 billion in development projects in communities descended from victims.

“Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial forces in what was then known as South-West Africa brutally quashed a rebellion spearheaded by the Herero and Nama tribes against the seizing of land and livestock by colonists, killing at least 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama. Many were driven into the Kalahari Desert, where the colonial administration had built labor and concentration camps, and died there of starvation and exhaustion. Researchers estimate that as many as 80 percent of the Herero and half of the Nama people were killed.”

From Canada was another piece by Amanda Coletta: “A mass grave containing the remains of 215 Indigenous children, including some as young as 3, has been found on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, a grim finding from one of the darkest chapters of Canadian history and one that an Indigenous leader called ‘an unthinkable loss.’ ”

From Australia, another, by Rachel Pannett, was headlined, “His name was Wayne. Like hundreds of Indigenous Australians, he died in custody.”

The New York Times produced among the more ambitious Tulsa remembrances. “Piecing together archival maps and photographs, with guidance from historians, The New York Times constructed a 3-D model of the Greenwood neighborhood as it was before the destruction. The Times also analyzed census data, city directories, newspaper articles, and survivor tapes and testimonies from that time to show the types of people who made up the neighborhood and contributed to its vibrancy. . . .”

The role of the news media in the Tulsa atrocity is not going unexamined. “The attack destroyed the offices of Tulsa’s two Black-owned newspapers, the Tulsa Star and the Oklahoma Sun; the former never resumed publishing,” Victor Luckerson wrote for The New Yorker.

” The city also had two white-owned newspapers — the Tulsa World and the Tulsa Tribune — which published stories blaming Black people for their own community’s destruction. There was little space in the city for Black residents to explain what had happened to them in their own words. . . .”

Deepti Hajela added for the Associated Press, as part of an AP package on the event, “Front-page stories and accounts from The Associated Press spoke of a ‘race clash’ and ‘armed conflict.’ But the aftermath — of a community shattered — was relegated to inside pages at best before being swept under the rug.

“In one example, a story weeks later well inside the pages of The New York Times reported in passing that a grand jury in Oklahoma had determined the catastrophe was due to the actions of armed Black people and the white people who got involved were not at fault.”

The AP story also said, “Terrible events that many Americans don’t know about include long-ago history, such as the Snake River attack in Oregon in 1887, where as many as 34 Chinese gold miners were killed, and the 1864 Sand Creek massacre of around 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people by U.S. soldiers in Colorado. Others are within the lifetimes of many Americans living today, like the 1985 bombing by Philadelphia police of the house that headquartered the Black organization MOVE, killing 11 people.”

“Journalism is about who is asking the questions,” said Matt Winkler, editor-in-chief emeritus of Bloomberg News.

Bloomberg Picks 50 for Diversity Program

Bloomberg said today the 2021 Journalism Diversity Program will host its largest group of students in the program’s history, with 50 students in the 2021 cohort,” the organization announced May 17, transmitted again Wednesday.

“After having been put on hold in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s program, in partnership with UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media and UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, includes 30 participants in the United States. The UK program is in partnership with the Department of Journalism at City, University of London and includes 20 students.

“With instruction by senior Bloomberg journalists and executives, participants are led through The Bloomberg Way: the guide for Bloomberg journalists on reporting, editing and applied business and economic knowledge. Participants will learn to demonstrate that the story of the economy, business and markets is best achieved when the focus is on the greatest diversity of participants. . . .

” ‘Journalism is about who is asking the questions,’ said Matt Winkler, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Bloomberg News. ‘We also know that if everyone asking the questions looks alike and sounds alike, there is little chance of explaining the world as it really is. This is why we created the Bloomberg Journalism Diversity Program.'”

The company also said, “Bloomberg is committed to diversity in the newsroom, at every level in its workforce, and in its content. In 2018, Bloomberg launched the New Voices initiative to increase the representation of women and minority executives as sources in both online and on-air content.

“The program initially began with the establishment of a definitive global list of female experts in finance and business, a system to track diverse sourcing, and the funding of media training for top women executives in global cities. In 2020, the program expanded to include a cohort of Black executives of all gender identities and in 2021, it will expand to include a cohort of Latinx executives of all gender identities.”

Don’t Look at Lightfoot’s Gesture in Isolation

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot tells Tahman Bradley of WGN that for that one day, “It’s important to me that diversity is put front and center.” (Credit: WGN)

Chicago Mayor Backed by Her City’s Black Press

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s decision that for one day she would grant one-on-one interviews only to people of color put members of Chicago’s Black press at odds with the prevailing media narrative.

Some, such as the National Association of Black Journalists, have said that Lightfoot’s message on the lack of media diversity was valid but that she addressed her concern the wrong way.

The Black press members argue that Lightfoot, marking her second anniversary on the job, had it right. “Black Media’s vantage point is often different than mainstream,” they wrote last week. “Our niches represent authentic voices of diverse Black audiences, who are often seen with a stereotypical lens. Too often, White coverage focuses on violence, deprivation, and negative behavior which represents a small percentage of Chicago’s Black community yet dominates news coverage.

“We recognize that Black politicians are held to a different standard. We have witnessed White media’s relentless scrutiny of past Black politicians like Harold Washington, Eugene Sawyer, Todd Stroger, and more recently, of States Attorney Kim Foxx.  Some of the attacks have been unmerciful, unfair, and yes — even racist.  Mayor Lightfoot recognizes a new day should have a new way.

“We applaud Mayor Lightfoot, Chicago’s first Black female gay mayor, for standing up to the status quo and recognizing that granting Black media with exclusive interviews is customary in the profession of media coverage.”

The declaration was published May 20 in the Chicago Defender and signed by those who would benefit most from the mayor’s action.

They are: Tracey Bell, The IBM Company — 95.1FM; Melody Spann Cooper, Midway Broadcasting Corporation — WVON and WRLL Radio; Janice & Durell Garth, Citizen Newspaper Group; Hermene Hartman, Hartman Publishing/N’DIGO; Rael Jackson, Current [South Shore Current]; Dorothy Leavell, The Chicago Crusader.

Also, Dyanna Knight Lewis, Real Times Media — The Chicago Defender; Yvette Moyo — South Shore -Current; Jamil Muhammad — C.R.O.E; Munson Steed — Rolling Out [Steed Media-Rolling Out]; Carl West — TBT News.

As reported last Wednesday, Lightfoot declared, “I have been struck since my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically.”

Lightfoot isn’t the only politician to have made such an observation.

During the 2020 Democratic presidential primary campaign, now-Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking with about 20 of her Senate colleagues, told a panel of Black journalists at the Capitol that her presidential candidacy was hampered by the dearth of Black reporters covering the campaign.

I wish more Blacks were covering me,” Harris said, according to news reports of the March 11, 2020, meeting.

“I can’t stress the importance of Black journalists and Black journalism,” Harris continued.

After the election, Julian Castro (pictured), the only Hispanic Democratic presidential candidate last year, told the Journal-isms Roundtable in October, “I could see in my own campaign on the trail that journalists of color often got the nuance.” They covered the campaign “much more solidly and were willing to put that [nuance] in the stories more.

“We know that in newsrooms around the country, from the most prestigious papers to local newspapers, that are covering important community issues, the mainstream media have done a terrible job, just like Hollywood and much of corporate America, especially Silicon Valley, with diversity.”

Since the campaign, owing in part to the racial reckoning galvanized by the police murder of George Floyd, some news organizations have added journalists of color to their political coverage and commentary. But as Castro said, issues of nuance and context are often still at issue, as reaction to Lightfoot’s declaration demonstrates.

In an otherwise balanced editorial, the Chicago Sun-Times wrote last week, “By publicly coupling her edict with her frustrations with the media as a Black woman mayor, Lightfoot risks reinforcing the long-held and false notion that Black and Brown journalists are people of color first and reporters second — biased in favor of sources that look like they do.”

Why go there? Repeating false notions has a name in journalism ethics circles: “the liar’s dividend.” The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society put it this way: “Make the truth, not the falsehood, the most vivid take-away.”

Others have responded with high-minded statements. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists said, “NAHJ does not condone restricting press access based on a journalist’s race/ethnicity. Any action that threatens the cornerstone of our democracy and First Amendment rights is unacceptable.”

Chicago Tribune City Hall reporter Gregory Pratt, who is Latino, tweeted, “Politicians don’t get to choose who covers them.”

But as Clarence Page countered last week in the Tribune, “Except, of course, major officeholders do routinely choose which requests to accept or reject for one-on-one interviews. The burning issue in essence here is whether they should be chosen based on the color of their skin.

“For too long, the wrong skin color or gender meant you were more likely to be rejected. For media workers and the audiences we serve, that had dire consequences.”

“Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial elections law May 20 in West Palm Beach, but only Fox News was allowed to show it. A graphic falsely claimed the law prohibits ‘mass mailing of ballots,’ when existing law already requires mail ballots to be requested,” the Tampa Bay Times reported. (Credit: Tampa Bay Times)

In addition, as Susy Schultz, executive director of Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, pointed out Wednesday night, women seem to have forgotten that their numbers increased in the 1930s when first lady Eleanor Roosevelt “insisted that only women cover her news conferences,” as Kay Mills reports in her “A Place in the News: From the Women’s Pages to the Front Page.”

Political persuasion might also have something to do with that access.

Just this month, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new voter restriction law. “Only Fox News, the Republican version of state-run media, was allowed in as Florida became the latest state to join the growing trend of imposing new barriers to voting,” the SunSentinel in South Florida reported.

Sunday talk-show bookers routinely grouse about who does and does not accept invitations to appear. There’s no debating that politicians have their favorite reporters and television interviewers.

Journalists are correct to question whether Lightfoot had motives other than fostering media diversity. Is the mayor trying to divert attention from other pressing issues or from her shortcomings?

Yet it’s troubling to hear some compare giving a break to Black and brown reporters with “anti-white racism.”

That’s the basis on which former Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard called for Lightfoot’s resignation. She tweeted, “Mayor Lightfoot’s blatant anti-white racism is abhorrent. I call upon President Biden, Kamala Harris, and other leaders of our country — of all races — to join me in calling for Mayor Lightfoot’s resignation. Our leaders must condemn all racism, including anti-white.”

Not surprisingly, the biggest and earliest headlines about Lightfoot’s move came from right-wing media invested in fanning white grievance.

Jesse Jackson opens his presidential campaign on Nov. 3, 1983, “As a result of our campaign, African Americans can now write about a presidential race. You can now comment on national TV talk shows,” he said later. (Credit: Ken Hawkins/Alamy Stock Photo)

Lurma Rackley, a former journalist who was press secretary to the late D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Jr., said she sees similarities with the arguments against affirmative action.

Rackley came up in journalism in the early 1970s, when Black politicians would hold background sessions with Black journalists, knowing that these reporters weren’t on the golf courses or other venues where white male politicians were confiding in their media counterparts. True, one difference was that the Black politicians then weren’t in the media glare the way that Lightfoot is.

Still, Rackley pointed out, when organizations without any Black representation came to Mayor Barry to do business, Barry told them to come back when they had some.

“If you force the issue, that will change” things, Rackley said by telephone. She said Barry and others of his era would be pleased by Lightfoot’s stand.

Similarly, Sam Fulwood III, now dean of the School of Communication at American University, recalls that Jesse Jackson, running in 1984 as a Democratic candidate for president, insisted that Black journalists be on his campaign plane. Fulwood was one of those journalists.

Fulwood wrote in 2008 for The Root, “Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign boosted — no, it actually created — the careers of a whole cadre of black political reporters,” listing some of them, including Kevin Merida, now the incoming executive editor of the Los Angeles Times.

Jackson boasted at that year’s NABJ convention, “As a result of our campaign, African Americans can now write about a presidential race. You can now comment on national TV talk shows.”

He also said, “In many ways, African American journalists are at the back of the journalistic bus. And some of the same techniques and tactics that got us [off] the back of the public accommodations bus, and the back of the political bus, must be employed to get us [out] the back of the journalistic bus.”

Yet those Black and brown journalists are in a profession where they are expected to hold news sources like Jackson and Lightfoot accountable.

NABJ, founded in 1975, came together in an era when many Black journalists owed their jobs to pressure from members of the Black community. The Black press, with its tradition of advocacy, has no problem working with Black politicians. Media industry groups freely lobby on Capitol Hill and in statehouses among the newsmakers their constituents cover. Sanctimony by itself doesn’t always get results.

Two years ago, the Congressional Black Caucus joined NABJ in calling for more diversity in executive news leadership at CNN.

And 10 years ago, NABJ was ready to reach out to politicians in an effort to reverse diversity setbacks. “NABJ’s mission is to connect with the Black community,” then-president Gregory H. Lee Jr. said. “The community involves pastors, school teachers, lawyers and yes even politicians,” Lee told Journal-isms at the time.

Gunshots Interrupt the Live Shot

ABC News reporter Alex Presha was reporting live from George Floyd Square in Minneapolis — where people have been observing the first anniversary of Floyd’s death — when gunfire could be heard,” Mark Joyella reported Tuesday for Forbes.

“ ‘Our team heard what sounded like well over a dozen gunshots,’ Presha said later on Twitter. ‘We’ve rushed behind a row of cars.’

“The gunfire — audible on air — turned a routine live report into a moment of tension and uncertainty. Presha was off camera as file video aired, but after the sound of the gunfire, he could be heard saying ‘hang on’ and then a voice saying ‘down, down, down’ and ‘behind the engine block’ urgently. . . . .”

Joyella also wrote, “Presha, on Twitter, later said ‘we’re OK. Definitely sad way to start a day that’s so important to so many people.’ . . .”

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New Tribune Co. Owner Already Offering Buyouts

Two days after hedge fund Alden Global Capital completed its $633 million acquisition of Tribune Publishing, the new owners of the Chicago-based newspaper chain are offering newsroom employees a buyout,” Robert Channick reported Wednesday for the Chicago Tribune.

“The voluntary separation plan was sent Wednesday to nonunion newsroom employees at the Chicago Tribune and other Tribune Publishing newspapers. The offer includes 12 weeks of pay for eligible employees with three or more years of continuous service, plus an additional week of pay for every year with the company. Eligible employees with less than three years of service would receive eight weeks of pay under the plan.”

Channick also wrote, “In addition to the Chicago Tribune, Tribune Publishing owns The Baltimore Sun; the Hartford Courant; the Orlando (Florida) Sentinel; the South Florida Sun Sentinel; the New York Daily News; the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland; The Morning Call in Allentown, Pennsylvania; the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia; and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia.”

Channick described Alden Global Capital as a “New York-based hedge fund with a reputation as one of the industry’s most aggressive cost-cutters,” and added, “Last year, Tribune Publishing employment fell by 30%, dropping from 4,114 employees at the end of 2019 to 2,865 employees at the end of 2020, according to the company’s annual reports. The company had a total of 896 newsroom employees across its eight markets entering this year. . . .”​

Trustees to Consider Tenure for Hannah-Jones

Tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones (pictured) at UNC-Chapel Hill is officially back up for consideration and in the hands of the university’s Board of Trustees,” Kate Murphy reported Wednesday for the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

“Trustee Chuck Duckett told The News & Observer he received the re-submission from the university’s Appointments, Personnel and Tenure Committee, which is made up of tenured professors, on Tuesday.

“This doesn’t guarantee that there will be a vote, and it’s unclear when the board may take up the issue. The next official board meeting isn’t scheduled until July 14 and 15, after Hannah-Jones is set to start her job as the Knight Chair for Race and Investigative Journalism at UNC-CH. . . .”

. . . Who’ll Be the Next Diversity Advocate Targeted?

UNC-Chapel Hill has sullied its reputation again, this time by giving into white conservative fears about a powerful black woman,” Issac Bailey (pictured), editorial writer for the Charlotte Observer, wrote May 20, updated Friday

“And make no mistake, the decision to deny tenure at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media to Nikole Hannah-Jones (pictured), one of the most influential, decorated and important journalists of our era, was in large part about race. About her race. About her ability to speak truthfully and unapologetically about racial issues that have been with us since before our founding. About her unflinching dedication to raising the bar on what this country should expect of itself – what Americans should expect of each other – on subjects many would rather deny or tiptoe around. . . .”

Bailey (pictured) also wrote, “This isn’t just about this one hire. It’s bigger than that. It’s the latest sign that everyone serious about issues of diversity, inclusion and equality best steel their spines. . . .

“This week, a group of white conservative graduates of Davidson College, where I teach and also graduated, sent out an email blast. . . . In it, they decried recent moves by the college to allow more religious diversity on the school’s board of trustees and in the president’s office as political correctness run [amok]. The signees of the letter included James G. Martin, a former governor of North Carolina, as well as Greg Murphy, a Republican member of Congress who claimed Kamala Harris’s success was largely the result of her race and gender. . . .”

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