Racist tweets greeted the series-ending overtime goal Wednesday by Joel Ward, the first black player in the National Hockey League to accomplish that feat. Did the tweets betray a bigoted disposition among hockey fans that has been undercovered by the news media? One read, “The fact that a nigger scored the winner goal make this…

“For the next three weeks or so, Washington, D.C., will relive one of the most brutal crimes in city history: the murder of 48-year-old Catherine Fuller back in 1984,” Derek McGinty told viewers of Washington’s WUSA-TV on Monday. “But this time, the court will be deciding if the men convicted of the crime were themselves…

Tone Became “Solidly Positive” After Michigan Primary “Mitt Romney needed 15 weeks once the primary contests began to gain a secure hold over his party’s nomination for president,” Tom Rosenstiel, Mark Jurkowitz and Tricia Sartor wrote Monday for the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. “But he emerged as the conclusive winner in…

Essence magazine and its white male managing editor — whom the leading magazine for black women has emphasized had a production, not an editorial role — are parting ways, a spokeswoman told Journal-isms Friday, after right-wing material on his Facebook page was brought to the editors’ attention. The hiring of Michael Bullerdick last July created…

Supporters Portray Alliance as Returning to Its “Roots” Joanna Hernandez, the president of Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc., said Wednesday “I got teary-eyed. I was immensely sad” when the coalition voted Monday to drop “of Color” from its name. “I did urge them not to take a vote now,” she told Journal-isms. As president, Hernandez…

The board of Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc. voted Monday to drop “Journalists of Color” from its name, saying members of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association “would not or would seriously consider not attending” its August convention “if ‘journalists of color’ remained as part of the name.” The vote was 11 to 4…

Fox Chief Roger Ailes Takes Swipe at Soledad O’Brien Roger E. Ailes, chairman of Fox News, referred to anchor Soledad O’Brien of rival network CNN as “that girl that’s named after a prison” after a lecture Thursday before journalism students at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Chapel Hill, Melody Guyton Butts reported…

Sharpton Appears With Martin Team, Then Interviews Them MSNBC, the cable news network that claims the highest ratings among African Americans, accorded the announcement of George Zimmerman’s arrest in the Trayvon Martin killing the greatest amount of coverage on Wednesday. That coverage included a news conference hosted by its “PoliticsNation” host, the Rev. Al Sharpton.…

Reluctance to Label Shootings Racially Motivated “Maybe it’s the Trayvon Martin case, or maybe it’s just the system working as it should, but news organizations are moving cautiously on the story of this weekend’s shootings in Tulsa, Okla., which may — may — have been racially motivated,” Andrew Beaujon reported Monday for the Poynter Institute.…

“CBS News legend Mike Wallace, the 60 Minutes’ pit-bull reporter whose probing, brazen style made his name synonymous with the tough interview – a style he practically invented for television more than half a century ago – died last night, CBS News reported on Sunday. “He was 93 and passed peacefully surrounded by family members…