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Newspapers Falling Below Benchmarks for Progress The number of journalists of color in newspaper newsrooms grew slightly last year, with the greatest growth among Hispanics

U.S. Agency Working With Unity on Public Meeting As the news media fail to measure up to their stated hopes for progress on diversity and

N.Y. Outlet Unlikely to Restore Black Programming New York City’s WLIB-AM, the black-owned station that tossed out Caribbean-oriented programming to host Air America, is parting

Wanted: Reporters for “the Story of Their Lives” Six months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, television stations on the Gulf Coast are still reeling, news

Dropping 12 Papers Puts Some of Color in Jeopardy The acquisition of Knight Ridder by the McClatchy Co., announced today, combines two companies with stated

People of Color Not Considering Knight Papers In 1983, Robert C. Maynard became the first African American to own a mainstream daily newspaper when the

On Diversity Goal, Auburn, NYU Found Lacking When the accrediting committee for journalism programs met two weekends ago, all four of the programs before it

N.Y. Times Helps Shake “Fatigue” Over Issue The front-page story in the New York Times on Monday, “Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn,” “really

Bar Raised on Goal of Parity With Community “The minority population in the Washington region will become the majority in well under a decade,” D’Vera

Police Union Strikes Back Over Hidden Cameras Seventeen years ago — two years before the beating of Rodney King—an NBC-TV camera crew secretly recorded a

Duke U. Accusation Raises Coverage Questions An African American college student working as an exotic dancer says she was raped and beaten by white members

First African American Since Carole Simpson Russ Mitchell has been named anchor of the Sunday edition of the “CBS Evening News” effective immediately, Sean McManus,