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Do Media Give Racist Hockey Fans a Pass?
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…
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'One Lonely Crusader' Sees Case Reopened
“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…
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Romney Wins Race for Favorable Coverage
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…
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Essence Shifts White Male Managing Editor
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…
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Minority-Journalist Group Loses Its 'Color'
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…
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Unity Drops 'Journalists of Color'
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…
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Soledad O'Brien: 'Named After a Prison'?
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…
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Hip-Hop Lessons for the Business World
Tech investor and entrepreneur Ben Horowitz joined Marcyliena Morgan, founder and director of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, on April 6 to discuss the hip-hop world’s influences on business and entrepreneurship during the Archive’s Cutting Edge Series. Introduced by The Root’s editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Horowitz talked about his youthful fascination with rap and hip-hop and the music’s daily impact…
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MSNBC Seizes on News of Zimmerman Arrest
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.…
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Media Cautious on Tulsa Killings
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.…