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Two Black Editors Celebrate Pulitzer Day
Michael Days, Greg Moore See Staffers Win Honors “The newsroom was quiet this afternoon, save for the sound of a nervous editor repeatedly clicking his mouse while staring at a computer screen,” David Gambacorta wrote Monday for the Philadelphia Daily News. “Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. “Finally, at 3 o’clock, the silence was pierced by a euphoric…
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Is There a Next Page for ‘Ebony’?
Four years ago, at the funeral of Ebony magazine founder John H. Johnson, then-Sen. Barack Obama remembered the man who almost single-handedly built the economic foundation for black-audience periodicals. Through his magazines, Obama told the more than 2,000 mourners, “he shared countless news, large and small, that had been ignored for so long.” Tavis Smiley…