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Company Endorses Candidate but Won’t Support Conference The New York Times Co. is not attending the National Association of Black Journalists convention next year. “We are supporting Unity,” Desiree Dancy, vice president, diversity and inclusion, told Journal-isms on Friday. “We’re disappointed in the fact that NABJ pulled out of Unity and yet this is a…

Activist Was Early Backer of Acquisition of NBC “Eight months after Al Sharpton signed a pivotal agreement that helped Comcast and NBC secure Federal Communications Commission approval for their $30 billion merger, MSNBC appears poised to reward him with a prime-time news show,” Wayne Barrett, who long covered Sharpton for the Village Voice, wrote Wednesday…

Alternative Press Concedes Its Readers Are “So White” If the sight of the Tyronne Foster & The Arc Singers gospel choir performing in a bar did not signal that this was not your ordinary journalism convention, then maybe the burlesque dancers, not to be called strippers, the magic act and the swinging New Orleans brass…

Freelance journalist Jeff Winbush wants it known that he is not hatin’ on the Rev. Al Sharpton. Winbush is a blogger in Columbus, Ohio, a former editor of the black newspaper the Columbus Post and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. More to the point, he was the source of a quote…

Activist Would Host at 6 p.m. on Cable Network “After giving a nearly six-month tryout for the Internet talk show host Cenk Uygur, the cable news channel MSNBC is preparing to instead hand its 6 p.m. time slot to the Rev. Al Sharpton,” Brian Stelter reported Thursday for the New York Times. Such a move…

Charles Robinson III Monday became the second candidate in the race for president of the National Association of Black Journalists to tout an endorsement from his employer, but DeWayne Wickham, a founder and past president of the association, said such endorsements are “a cancer on our organization that eats away at a core value.” Gregory…

In a highly unusual move, New York Times Co. CEO Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. has made an endorsement in the presidential contest of the National Association of Black Journalists. Sulzberger endorsed Gregory Lee Jr., senior assistant sports editor at the Boston Globe, a New York Times Co. property. Lee touted the endorsement Friday on his…

 Move Indicates More Involvement With Daily Operations “Oprah Winfrey stood before cable company executives at an industry confab last month and admitted that the beginning of OWN, her cable channel, wasn’t going very well, in part because she had been focused on the end of her daytime talk show instead,” Brian Stelter reported Wednesday for…

NBC News’ theGrio.com and Interactive One’s NewsOne.com have decided to share news and resources in what the two companies are touting as “an expanded platform for African-American journalism.” Theoretically, each site will now have available the resources of NBC News, Radio One, TV One, Reach Media’s syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, theGrio.com, NewsOne.com, HelloBeautiful.com and theUrbanDaily.com.…

CNN’s top executive has all but said that the on-air journalists of color it employs are not ready for prime time, and deployed Mark Whitaker, the former Newsweek editor who recently became a CNN news executive, to talk with the National Association of Black Journalists about finding more suitable ones. In a statement protesting CNN’s…