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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…

CNN on Wednesday canceled the political talk show “In the Arena” with Eliot Spitzer, filling his 8 p.m. time slot with Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” and unveiling a fall lineup that includes a new general news program with Erin Burnett, formerly of CNBC. The lineup includes no journalists of color.  When the former New York governor…

 West African Accuser Loses Sympathetic Status The hotel maid who accuses Dominique Strauss-Kahn of forcing her into a sexual encounter has lost her status as a sympathetic figure in the American media as reporters and prosecutors say they have uncovered inconsistent statements and lies about her past. ” ‘Until today, it was white versus black,…

White journalists have had a variety of reactions to Time magazine analyst Mark Halperin’s off-color characterization of President Obama Thursday on MSNBC, but black journalists are taking the insult much more seriously. In social media, in conversation and among the few who have access to opinion columns, the Halperin remark is seen as nothing less…

HuffPost Picks Editors for Black, Latino Sites Two to Be Integrated Into Huffington Post “Platform” New top editors have been named for Black Voices and AOL Latino, and the two sites – now under the direction of the Huffington Post – will migrate from AOL to the Huffington site, or “platform,” according to Mario Ruiz,…