20-Year Anniversary of Million Man Event Minimized The first viewer comment on C-SPAN’s call-in “Washington Journal” on Sunday was from Everett of Jersey City, N.J. The topic for the segment was Saturday’s Justice or Else march in Washington, the 20-year sequel to the 1995 Million Man March. “None of the mainstream media were there. That’s…

Network Blasts Observation by Former NABJ President “African-American Fox News staffers find it ‘very difficult’ to work at the network, former president of the National Association of Black Journalists Bob Butler told TheWrap on Thursday,” Jordan Charlton reported for TheWrap.com. ” ‘I’ve talked to some folks who work there and it’s very difficult, especially when…

Latest Flap Follows Cover That Omitted Blacks Philadelphia Magazine reacted Wednesday to a call by black journalists for its editor to resign over the magazine’s lack of diversity by announcing “a series of immediate and long-term diversity initiatives.” The magazine’s lack of inclusion is reflective of city magazines in general. Jack Limpert, then retired editor…

Lack of Medical Insurance Complicated Treatment Options Sidmel Estes, who became the first female president of the National Association of Black Journalists in 1991 while working as executive producer and co-creator of WAGA-TV’s “Good Day Atlanta,” died Monday night in an Atlanta hospital where she was being treated for a mystery illness, a friend, Ce Cole…

“Angry Black Woman” Line Laid Bare Lack of Diversity Wesley Morris, a black journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2012 while at the Boston Globe, is joining the New York Times as a critic at large, the Times announced on Thursday. The Culture section of the Times came under fire last year…

The Worst-Reported Stories About Detroit The Toronto Star made this video in December to accompany a story about longtime Detroiters helping to revitalize their city. News reports neglect such residents in favor of stories about white newcomers, panelists said Saturday at a Detroit conference organized by Unity: Journalists for Diversity. Renewal Underway and Whites Get…

NABJ, Unity Join Media Outlets in Expressing Outrage “Reporters from The Huffington Post and Washington Post have been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer’s performance, a chilling setback for press freedom coming nearly a year after their arrests in Ferguson, Missouri,” Michael Calderone reported Monday for the Huffington Post. “The Huffington Post’s Ryan J.…

From ASNE: “Our Industry Isn’t Making Progress” The percentage of journalists of color in newspaper and online newsrooms declined from 13.34 percent to 12.76 percent, the American Society of News Editors reported Tuesday, with the percentages down among Asian Americans, blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, but a slight increase among those identifying as multiracial [PDF]. “The…

Hulk Hogan Fired After Reporters Expose Racist Rant Reporting by the National Enquirer — a supermarket tabloid long scorned by the mainstream media for its sensationalistic stories and questionable journalistic practices — was credited Friday with prompting World Wrestling Entertainment to terminate the contract of its star Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan. “Hulk…

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the national correspondent for the Atlantic, is becoming the go-to guy on race relations for television bookers. He has been getting near-unanimous praise for his new book “Between the World and Me,” and Benjamin Wallace-Wells of New York magazine recalled on Sunday that he also won the endorsement that meant more than any other. “Late this…