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Debates Skipped Faith, Justice, Southern Hemisphere “Criminal justice reform may top the list of third-rail political issues to be strictly avoided on the campaign trail. And, perhaps as expected, it didn’t rear its head at any of the presidential debates,” Farai Chideya wrote Wednesday for Columbia Journalism Review. “Politicians from both major parties tend to…

President Obama was judged the winner of Monday night’s final debate of the campaign season, with challenger Mitt Romney leaving pundits debating why he now agreed with the president on so many foreign policy issues. “If this debate had gone on for 30 more minutes, Romney was going to endorse Obama,” Van Jones, the former…

Four Alumni Reflect on Demise of Print Edition In a 2009 edition of “Mormon Matters,” which describes itself as a “weekly podcast exploring Mormon culture and current events,” Jeff Breinholt recalled: “The July 15, 1968 edition of Newsweek featured the cover story ‘The Angry Black Athlete,‘ which stated: ” ‘It is a mess that extends…

Debate’s Inclusion of Broader Issues Was Intentional After two debates in which domestic concerns of particular interest to people of color were barely mentioned, moderator Candy Crowley of CNN said Tuesday night that she made a deliberate effort to raise such issues as gun control, immigration and long-term unemployment in that evening’s town hall presidential…

Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, said over the weekend that the network she left behind “reinforces negative stereotypes of young people, African Americans in particular,” Brittney M. Walker wrote Monday for EURWeb.com. Johnson was the speaker at the “Conversations and Encounters” program at the Carmel Art and Film Festival in Monterey County, Calif.,…

Concerns of Journalists of Color Missing Again The verdict is in on Thursday’s vice presidential debate: Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his Republican challenger, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., both advanced their candidacies, and moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News “won” the debate, some commentators said, with her forceful but tactful questioning. Nielsen, the…

Overall, 33% Have Online Component, Study Finds High schools that don’t have their own student media “are largely poor and have high minority populations, often depriving the students of a vital educational opportunity,” the University of Kansas reported Wednesday. Moreover, “While the Internet has steadily become a larger part of media over the past decade-plus,…

“In the five days since Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was declared by many the winner of the first presidential debate, political watchers have waited to see if polls would shift in response to his performance. And, they did,” NPR reported on Monday. “Not only has the Gallup tracking poll tightened to a tie —…

Coalition Made Little-Known Decision in April The National Association of Hispanic Journalists reversed itself over the summer after its president ruled that a student journalist could not tweet from its board meetings. But Unity Journalists, the alliance of Hispanic, Asian American, Native American and lesbian and gay journalists, will no longer allowing such a student…