“Despite the push for strict voter ID laws in a charged partisan and racial debate, the most exhaustive study ever of American election fraud reveals the rate is infinitesimal,” according to News21, a national investigative reporting project at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “Since 2000, a time…

“I Made a Terrible Mistake,” Commentator Says “Time editor-at-large and CNN host Fareed Zakaria was suspended from both places for a month on Friday after admitting to lifting parts of a story from the New Yorker,” Jack Mirkinson and Rebecca Shapiro reported for the Huffington Post. “The Washington Post, which publishes a separate column by…

Ties to Comcast Unite the Two Networks NBC News and TV One are partnering to provide joint coverage on the final nights of the Republican and Democratic conventions, as well as on election night, the two networks announced on Wednesday. “As part of the partnership, TV One will air a four-hour broadcast on the final…

A diverse newsroom leadership team helped deepen the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s coverage of Sunday’s killings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Martin Kaiser, senior vice president and editor, told Journal-isms on Monday. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran with white supremacist ties, opened fire before worship services in nearby Oak Creek, Wis., and killed…

Vote in Tied Secretary’s Race Extended Two Weeks On their first day on the job, the new leaders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted 6-5 Saturday to reverse the previous board’s much-criticized policy barring tweeting during NAHJ board meetings. Rebecca Aguilar of Dallas, the newly elected vice president for online, made the motion…

Estimated 2,000 Register, Short of Sponsorship Goal The Unity alliance opened its first convention without the National Association of Black Journalists in Las Vegas on Wednesday, with Executive Director Onica N. Makwakwa estimating the registration at “over 2,000” and telling Journal-isms that the coalition fell $200,000 short of its sponsorship goals. It had sought $1.25…

Will Reinvented Unity Address Affirmative Action? “Like the Olympics, it happens every four years. But you won’t see a lot of spandex at the convention of minority journalists called Unity, happening this week in Las Vegas,” Emil Guillermo wrote Monday in his blog for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. “You won’t see…

Rumor, Fact Follow Sherman Hemsley, Sally Ride Deaths On Facebook Tuesday, Joyce Ladner, a former interim president of Howard University, posted a notice about the death of actor Sherman Hemsley of television’s “The Jeffersons” and praised him as “out and proud.” Friends approved with a “like.” No point in being in the closet one’s whole…

U.S. to Review the Record After ProPublica Stories “The Obama administration has asked for a fresh review of an Alabama federal inmate’s commutation request and directed the Justice Department to conduct its first ever in-depth analysis of recommendations for presidential pardons, according to several officials and individuals involved,” Dafna Linzer reported Wednesday for ProPublica. “The…

Lynn Hoppes, senior director/entertainment at ESPN, former newspaper sports editor and former president of Associated Press Sports Editors, has been scolded for “journalistic laziness” after the Deadspin website found that he had been “shall we say, over-reliant on Wikipedia as a research tool,” as Deadspin put it. ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz told Journal-isms Friday by…