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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,

Couric Ascension Confronts Issue of “Gravitas” Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS’ “Washington Week” and senior correspondent for “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,”

NAHJ President: Unity’s “Next Level” Should Include Whites The new president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, columnist Juan Gonzalez of the New York

Originally posted Oct. 6, 2005  Black Journalist at Helm in Old Dixie Capital Glenn Proctor, an associate editor of the Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and