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“The murder convictions of two men who killed Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey were hailed Thursday by press-freedom groups and residents of the city for which Bailey reported,” Josh Richman, Kristin J. Bender and Angela Woodall reported for the Chauncey Bailey Project. “Bailey, 57, was the first journalist killed over a domestic story in the…

Sandra D. Long, an employee of the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1984 and vice president for editorial product development for Philadelphia Media Network, latest owner of the Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, was dropped from the staff on Wednesday. Long said her goodbyes on Wednesday “to as many people as I could,” she told Journal-isms. Mark…

Two years ago, the Fort Mill (S.C.) Times, a 19,500-circulation weekly owned by the McClatchy Co., proudly announced that “Toya Graham will be joining the Fort Mill Times staff as an assistant editor. Graham, currently a reporter covering the crime and courts beats for the The Herald, the Times’ sister daily, will begin her new…

The appointment of Jill Abramson and Dean Baquet as the top two news executives at the New York Times was hailed by black women who have worked at the Times Friday as they recalled past battles waged at the paper by women and African Americans. Eight black women — current and former Times employees —…

Jill Abramson and Dean Baquet — a white woman and a black man — will lead the newsroom of the New York Times, the newspaper announced on Thursday, reporting that Abramson, a former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief, will become the paper’s executive editor, and Baquet, the Washington bureau chief, will become the new…

Since the death of spoken word musician Gil Scott-Heron on Friday, more than one post-Boomer – Scott-Heron was 62 – confessed online that the so-called “godfather of rap” was unknown to them. Savvy television producers might rush to fill the vacuum by obtaining a 2003 documentary from the BBC, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,”…

Gil Scott-Heron might not have been a journalist, but the poet and musician was sure enough a social commentator who could “make it sing,” and his subjects included the media. His most quoted piece was “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Perhaps it was fitting that news of his death in New York spread virally…

Was It a “Reverse Migration”? American daily newspapers lost 13,500 newsroom jobs from 2007 to 2010, according to the American Society of News Editors. In 2008 alone, employment for nearly 400 black journalists vanished. The next year, newsroom jobs held by black journalists were slashed by an unprecedented 19.2 percent, nearly 6 percentage points higher…

A lengthy cover story in New York magazine makes the argument that Roger Ailes, who heads Fox News, badly wants to play Republican kingmaker for the 2012 presidential election and that his ideal candidate is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. “A few months ago, Ailes called Chris Christie and encouraged him to jump into the…

“In reporting the ongoing fallout from Schwarzenegger’s affair with the former housekeeper who gave birth to his child, has the press unduly invaded the privacy of Schwarzenegger’s one-time paramour?” Joe Pompeo wrote Thursday for Yahoo. “Some major news organizations have exercised restraint, declining to publish the names, photos or any other revealing details about the…