Even Fox News Calls Reporter’s Breach Disrespectful “The interruption stunned White House correspondents and television viewers,” Brian Stelter wrote Friday in the New York Times. “And it clearly surprised President Obama, too.” A reporter for the conservative Daily Caller website interrupted Obama’s Rose Garden announcement of a change in immigration policy in what some reporters…

Newsweek Spiked Cover of Obama as Trayvon Martin ” . . . Posted on the Newsweek Tumblr — social media, in action! — is a video of the editor, herself, discussing a spiked cover that involved posing Barack Obama as Trayvon Martin,” Foster Kamer wrote about Tina Brown Tuesday for the New York Observer. “She explains: ” ‘It was a Trayvon [Martin]…

Theory Holds Bias Could Cost President Key States “Barack Obama won 52.9 percent of the popular vote in 2008 and 365 electoral votes, 95 more than he needed,” Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a doctoral candidate in economics at Harvard, wrote Sunday in the New York Times. “Many naturally concluded that prejudice was not a major factor against…

Soul of the South Releases Promotional Video A new African American-oriented television network has posted a video preview of its plans for an unprecedented five hours of daily news programming, which the network’s primary creator, Edwin Avent, said he hopes to have on the air on Labor Day weekend. Avent, former publisher of Heart &…

Black Churches Demonstrate to Keep Pastors on Cable About 35 demonstrators representing a coalition of 34,000 black churches marched in front of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington Wednesday, saying many viewers of faith-based television programs would lose access to them if the FCC lets expire a rule requiring cable systems to carry the shows.…

Mayor “Unappoints” Deputy Who Slapped Away a Mic “Detroit deputy fire commissioner Fred Wheeler has been removed from office following a physical altercation with WJBK reporter Charlie LeDuff on Tuesday,” Andrew Gauthier reported Thursday for TVSpy. “Working on a story about filthy conditions at a number of Detroit fire houses, LeDuff approached Wheeler on the…

In New Orleans, Broadband Goes to Whites, Affluent The decision by the owners of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans to offer a printed newspaper only three days a week, delivering the news online the rest of the time, raises a question particularly relevant to communities of color: What about those who don’t have access to…

Story Gives New Life to Symbolic White House Photo A 2009 photograph of President Obama bending over so a 5-year-old African American boy can touch his hair is enjoying renewed popularity after reporter Jackie Calmes recounted the story behind the image last week in the New York Times. On the day it ran, Dylan Stableford…

Tara Wall Joins Romney as Senior African American Tara Wall, a former newscaster, Republican National Committee senior adviser, George W. Bush appointee, conservative columnist and deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Times, was hired recently as a senior communications adviser to the Mitt Romney campaign to handle outreach to African Americans, Nia-Malika Henderson and Philip Rucker reported Thursday for the Washington Post. “Mitt Romney’s…

5 Black Sports Journalists Laid Off at USA Today Five black sports journalists were laid off at USA Today on Wednesday, staffers told Journal-isms. They are: G.E. Branch, assignment editor; J. Michael Falgoust, NBA reporter; Gene Farris, web and video editor; Gary Graves, motor sports reporter; and Dixie Vereen, design editor. Branch was a USA…