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Amanpour Fails to Challenge Franklin Graham Assertions ABC-TV’s Christiane Amanpour gave a prominent Easter Sunday platform to the “birther” views of the Rev. Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist the Rev. Billy Graham, failing to correct him when he claimed that President Obama had not produced his birth certificate. Graham also questioned whether Obama was…

The fallout over this month’s decision by the National Association of Black Journalists to withdraw from the Unity coalition took a contentious turn Thursday after members learned that Kathy Y. Times, president of the association, had suspended John Yearwood, an NABJ representative on the Unity board, from the association’s listserve. Yearwood, who is world editor…

Mitzi Miller Has Written for and With Black Women Mitzi Miller, a writer and editor at women’s magazines who with Denene Millner and Angela Burt-Murray co-wrote two books — “The Vow: a Novel” and “The Angry Black Woman’s Guide to Life” — has been named editor-in-chief of Jet magazine, Johnson Publishing Co. announced. Miller takes…

Diversity Advocate “Planned for My Retirement Since . . . 21” Paula Madison, executive vice president and chief diversity officer for NBCUniversal, is retiring on May 20 after more than 35 years in the news media, NBCUniversal intends to announce on Monday. Madison, 58, a board member of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and…

Now that it has revealed that the number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors plans to enlist non-media companies to brief news executives on appealing to an increasingly brown America. “ASNE will be a leader at keeping diversity at…

U.S. “Minority” Population at 36 percent; in Newsrooms, 12.79 percent The number of journalists of color in daily newspaper and online-only  newsrooms declined for the third consecutive year, the American Society of News Editors reported Thursday in disclosing the results of its annual diversity survey. Minority journalists declined from 5,500 to 5,300, though overall, “American newspapers…

Death of Malcolm X Biographer Manning Marable on Eve of Biography’s Release Gave Opportunity Media Have Long Resisted. The mainstream media long resisted identifying the man believed to have pulled the trigger in the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X, but found its opportunity with Monday’s publication of the late scholar Manning Marable’s new biography, “Malcolm…

Noted African American historian Manning Marable died in New York on Friday, three days before his long-awaited book containing revelations about Malcolm X is to be published, his publicist confirmed. He was 60.A prolific writer, Marable directed the Institute for the Research in African American Studies at Columbia University and for years wrote the column…

President Notes Association Is “the Largest Partner” The National Association of Black Journalists is seeking a larger voice within Unity: Journalists of Color, an organization that gives each of its four partner organizations the same number of votes, NABJ President Kathy Y. Times told members in a message Tuesday night. “All four journalism organizations that…

Bob Herbert, the first African American op-ed columnist at the New York Times, is leaving the paper after 18 years, the Times said on Friday. His last column appeared on Saturday. “I have been writing a column for 25 years, nearly 18 at The New York Times,” Herbert said in a note to the Times…