Culture

Journal-isms will be on hiatus until further notice. Gwen Ifill, co-moderator of Thursday’s Democratic presidential candidates debate on PBS, said, “Let me turn this on its head, because when we talk about race in this country, we always talk about African-Americans, people of color. I want to talk about white people, OK?” Sen. Bernie Sanders,…

NBC’s Welker Often “the Only Black Woman in the Room” Elle.com, the website of Elle magazine, published “Meet the Girls on the Bus” Wednesday, confirming what many television viewers have noticed: More women than ever are covering a presidential race. “This Is What NBC News Looks Like in 2016,” read a headline on a video…

Michael Feeney, Mentor With a Purpose Service in Harlem Sanctuary Has Feel of NABJ Meeting Deon J. Hampton, a reporter at Newsday and fraternity brother of Michael J. Feeney, will never forget driving from Oklahoma to New York on faith. Hampton had been laid off from the Tulsa World in March 2011 and was not…

“The morning of May 4, 2011, Jameelah El-Shabazz watched out the window of her Bronx apartment as a team of police officers fanned across the rooftop of Banana Kelly High School,” Sarah Ryley wrote in a piece published jointly Thursday by ProPublica and the Daily News in New York, which participated in the reporting. “The…

Texan Cites Network in Spreading Falsehood About Carson “CNN has accused the campaign of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz of making false statements about the network’s reporting on the campaign of GOP rival Ben Carson,” Mark Joyella reported Wednesday for TVNewser. ‘Senator Cruz’s claims about CNN are false,’ the network said in a statement Wednesday…

“Doctors Didn’t See This Coming,” Mom Says of Fatal Illness A fund created to honor the memory of Michael J. Feeney, the 32-year-old New York journalist who died on Sunday as he was about to begin a new stage in his career as an entertainment journalist at CNN, raised more than $15,000 of its $20,000…

Whites Believed Ready for Local Initiatives on Race Polling data say that recent developments such as video showing police culpability in brutality against citizens have persuaded white Americans that racism is a national problem that must be confronted, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation declared Thursday. That means the United States is ready for the concept of…

Response to Oregon Standoff Has Invited Comparisons “A siege of more than three weeks at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge came to a sudden and violent end Tuesday when five militants — including leader Ammon Bundy and his brother, Ryan Bundy — were arrested in a traffic stop and another militia member was shot and…

Some Blur Faces; Media “Cautious With a Hurtful Image” A photo of six white Arizona high school girls who arranged their shirts to spell “Ni**er” (with actual asterisks) when they stood together went viral over the weekend after they posted it on social media. The photo, taken Friday after the girls posed for their senior…