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In the media, “negative imagery of Black women is seen often twice as frequently as positive imagery,” according to a survey of more than 1,200 respondents appearing in the November issue of Essence magazine. They “told us that the images we encounter regularly on TV, in social media, in music videos and from other outlets…

“The Obama administration’s aggressive war on leaks and other efforts to control information are without precedent, according to 30 experienced Washington journalists interviewed for a new report released today by the Committee to Protect Journalists,” the Committee reported on Thursday. “The report found that despite President Barack Obama’s promise to head the most open government…

Leaders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists recommended Monday that the association leave the Unity: Journalists for Diversity coalition, an action that would leave the onetime Unity: Journalists of Color with two of the original four journalist-of-color associations and the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association. In a message to members posted on the…

Do Racial Issues Still Push Some Over the Edge? Black Woman’s Chase, Slaying Renews Interest in Theory The suspect slain after a chase from the White House to the U.S. Capitol Thursday wasn’t identified by race, unlike the Washington Navy Yard killer who left 12 others dead less than three weeks earlier. Miriam Carey wasn’t…

The Associated Press and NPR have decided to cut back on use of the term “Obamacare,” with NPR describing the word as seeming “to be straddling somewhere between being a politically-charged term and an accepted part of the vernacular.” Stuart Seidel, NPR’s managing editor for standards and practice, issued his style ruling Tuesday after this…

Reactions Differ on “Obamacare,” “Affordable Care Act” “What’s in a name? When it comes to the debate over health care, apparently a lot,” Steve Liesman reported Thursday for CNBC. “In CNBC’s third-quarter All-America Economic Survey, we asked half of the 812 poll respondents if they support Obamacare and the other half if they support the…

NLGJA Delegate Wins, 6-4, as NAHJ Sits Out Vote David Steinberg, a former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, has been elected president of Unity: Journalists for Diversity, the coalition announced Friday. Steinberg, who becomes the first white president of the former Unity: Journalists of Color, defeated Janet Cho of the Asian…

The leadership of CNN’s Diversity Council is changing, with Johnita P. Due, its longtime chair, stepping down and Maria Ebrahimji, its vice chair, leaving the network, a CNN spokeswoman said on Thursday. The change at the council, coupled with criticism of CNN’s diversity record since Jeff Zucker became CNN president last year, led to a…

Race Factor Raised in Graphic Images From Kenya On Saturday, the New York Times published remarkable close-up photographs by a staff photographer who happened to be near the bloody shopping center assault in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed at least 62 people. But another Africa-based photographer asked in an open letter the next day, “Would the…

New Yorker Cover Depicts “What We Live Every Day” With so much distressing news about news-media backsliding on diversity, it was refreshing to come across the cover of the Sept. 23 edition of the New Yorker showing a white boy and a black girl holding hands as they navigate New York. It was even more…