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FCC Opens FM Stations to Community Groups
More Than 6,000 Applications Awaiting Approval “Coincidences in Washington? Try this. Just when the Federal Communications Commission is circulating a draft order to loosen media ownership rules, it voted today to take final steps to create lower-power FM radio, a new class of noncommercial radio stations aimed at increasing diversity on the radio airwaves,” Katy…
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Ebony's NeNe Leakes Cover Stirs Backlash
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta firebrand NeNe Leakes graces the current cover of Ebony — bathing in what appears to be a tub of diamonds — and people aren’t happy about it, Karu F. Daniels wrote Tuesday for the Daily Beast. “. . . ‘Those who take issue with reality television’s role in pop culture…
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NBC News to Pay Its College Interns
Move, Planned for Spring, Expected to Boost Diversity NBC News is planning to pay its interns starting in the spring of 2013, according to a well-placed source at the network, addressing a long-held contention that requiring interns to work only for the experience or for college credit amounts to favoring students with well-to-do parents. The…
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Latino Journalists Caught in Israel Crisis
“Fear, Terror, Helplessness” on Journalists’ Visit Hispanic journalists visiting Israel at the invitation of a group that offers media figures all-expenses-paid trips found themselves in Jerusalem this week while Israel and Hamas were exchanging missiles and bombs. “Fear, terror and helplessness washed over the group,” Israel Hayom, an Israeli-based online newsletter, reported on Friday. “But…
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TJ Holmes Breaks N-Word Pledge
T.J. Holmes Breaks Pledge Not to Use N-Word CNN anchor-turned-BET host T.J. Holmes said Wednesday he had broken a pledge he made in an essay for the Grio in July: to stop using the N-Word. “As soon as I walk out of this room, I’m probably going to drop it 20 times before I get downstairs” Holmes, 35,…
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Mingling With a Message: The Root 100
(The Root) — On Thursday, Nov. 15, The Root celebrated the journalists, politicians, scholars, civil rights advocates and others who make up our 2012 list of stellar black influencers at our annual The Root 100 Gala. In lower Manhattan at the Tribeca Rooftop, notable guests stepped onto our trademark green carpet to share their thoughts…
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Fox, MSNBC Became More Extreme as Vote Neared
” . . . In the final week of the campaign, both Fox News and MSNBC became even more extreme in how they differed from the rest of the press in coverage of the two candidates, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism reported on Monday. “On Fox News, the amount of negative…
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Did Gays Move the Needle for Obama?
Gays, Lesbians Latest to Be Credited for Obama’s Win Gay and lesbian voters are the latest group to be awarded credit for President Obama’s election victory. Defeated GOP candidate Mitt Romney, meanwhile, added the large number of primary debates to his post-election criticisms, and took a swipe at CNN and NBC as not among the “reasonable” networks…
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Blacks Own Just 10 of 1,348 TV Stations
Black, Asian Broadcast Ownership Dips “Bill O’Reilly can breathe a little easier. “Last week while speaking about the reelection of President Obama, the Fox News commentator said, ‘The white establishment is now the minority,’ ” Joe Flint wrote Wednesday for the Los Angeles Times. “But when it comes to who owns the nation’s TV and…
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BET Scales Back on TJ Holmes' Show
Program to Air Weekly as Ratings Disappoint BET announced Monday that it is scaling back its much-anticipated late-night, half-hour vehicle for T.J. Holmes, the former CNN anchor, from half an hour Monday through Thursday to an hour once a week. The show launched Oct. 1. CEO Debra Lee said last month the show is “designed…