ArticlesFeatureFeatured L.A. Times Apologizes for Racist PastrichardSeptember 27, 2020September 30, 2020 by richardSeptember 27, 2020September 30, 202062 8299 Sunday News Report Makes Attempt at Redress Breonna ‘Could Have Been Me’: ‘Objectivity . . . Is So Whitewashed’New Roles for Sims, Givhan, WilsonParks Was...
ArticlesFeatureJournal-isms RoundtableFeatured Can the Black Press Help Save White Newspapers?richardSeptember 21, 2020September 24, 2020 by richardSeptember 21, 2020September 24, 202027 6625 The newspaper industry is looking at a partnership between the Dallas Morning News and a Dallas Black newspaper as a model to be replicated....
FeatureArticlesFeatured Journalist Quits Over Kenosha HeadlinerichardSeptember 1, 2020September 5, 2020 by richardSeptember 1, 2020September 5, 202019 6807 A journalist resigned from The Kenosha News after objecting to the headline of an article about a rally supporting Jacob Blake, shot seven times by...
ArticlesFeatureFeatured Gannett Gets Bolder on DiversityrichardAugust 25, 2020August 30, 2020 by richardAugust 25, 2020August 30, 202091 9739 Gannett wants its workforce as diverse as the country by 2025....
ArticlesFeatureFeatured ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Jobs: Throwbacks or Progress?richardJuly 31, 2020August 4, 2020 by richardJuly 31, 2020August 4, 202074 7455 The recent spate of high-ranking "diversity and inclusion" appointments has struck some as ghettoizing, while others are overjoyed....
FeatureArticlesFeatured Racial Clamors Force Changes in Philly, N.Y.richardJune 7, 2020June 12, 2020 by richardJune 7, 2020June 12, 2020013638 Philadelphia Inquirer's top editor resigns;; one editor out, 2nd moved at N.Y. Times...
ArticlesFeatureWhy It Took So Long for the Ahmaud Arbery Story to ExploderichardMay 14, 2020May 23, 2020 by richardMay 14, 2020May 23, 202015452 How the story went from being largely ignored to one of the biggest in the country...
ArticlesFeatureWith Cash, Facebook ‘Likes’ the NewsrichardMay 9, 2020May 8, 2022 by richardMay 9, 2020May 8, 202214 4002 More than 200 news outlets to receive nearly $16 million in grants, half published by or for communities of color....
ArticlesFeatureLayoffs, Walkout Leave Plain Dealer With Just Four ReportersrichardApril 12, 2020April 24, 2020 by richardApril 12, 2020April 24, 202005857 Fourteen Plain Dealer journalists were left after massive layoffs that saw 22 staffers depart....
ArticlesFeatureRead Your Way Through the PandemicrichardMarch 25, 2020May 23, 2020 by richardMarch 25, 2020May 23, 202013 4881 First installment of our annual list of nonfiction books by journalists of color....