Media
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Did Syrian Children’s Light Skin Motivate Trump?
‘The White-Oriented News Media Avoid Race’ Trump Supporters’ Attacks Take Their Toll: Journalists Seek to Foil the ‘Contentious and Ugly’ Race Influences Policies on Opioids, Crack How a Series on Latinos Won the Top Pulitzer Prize Short Takes “This week, it was the images — gruesome photos of a chemical weapons attack on Syrian civilians…
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More Companies Pull Ads From Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor
Sexual Harassment Allegations Are ‘Disturbing’ Angelo Henderson Family Sues Doctors Over Death Over 15 Years, 1,687 Fewer Newspaper Companies Last Black Female Newspaper Sports Editor Laid Off Signed: April Ryan by CNN, Ed O’Keefe by CBS L.A. Times 4-Part Series: ‘The Problem With Trump’ Jenni Monet Honored for Standing Rock Coverage Wagner Is Rare Spanish-Speaking…
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BET Said to Fire Exec With Breast Cancer
Longtime President Stephen Hill Also Out Anecdotally, Lewis Led Way for Black Journalists Tang Leaving N.Y. Times Editorial Board for ACLU Journalists Weigh What to Say About Missing Girls Polgreen Wants ‘Empathy Journalism’ at HuffPost Almost 50 Years Ago, the News Industry Was Called Out on Race. How Should That Be Commemorated? “BET announced the…
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Let’s Talk About Black Women’s Daily ‘Indignities’
Spicer, O’Reilly Spawn #BlackWomenAtWork 2 Black Employees File Complaint Against Fox News Omarosa Manigault Walks Out on Black Press Almost 50 Years Ago, the News Industry Was Called Out on Race. How Should That Be Commemorated? Wall St. Journal Staffers Want Diverse Management Univision Says GOP Is Shunning Network Gannett Cuts Newsrooms at 3 Tennessee…
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‘Blue Chip’ Activist Roger Wilkins Dies
Insider; Editorialist at N.Y. Times, Washington Post . . . I Said, ‘They Don’t Know What to Make of You’ Escobar Rises, Days Moves in Philly Shakeup Journalists Assaulted by Pro-Trump Supporters L.A. Times Ventures ‘On Edge in Trump’s America’ Could Obama Sue Trump for Defamation? NAHJ, Gay Journalists Publish Spanish Stylebook Racial Words That…
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‘Is Truth Dead’ Under Trump?
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus report on their meeting Wednesday with President Trump. They answered his question, “What do you have to lose?” (NBC News) “Donald Trump is not on the cover of Time this week, and that must gall him,” Will Oremus wrote Thursday for Slate. “The president is the subject of the…
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Reporting by Women Declining at Networks
“A Women’s Media Center report examining who provides coverage for 20 top news outlets shows that female journalists continue to report less of the news than do male journalists — with the disparity especially glaring in television,” the center reported Wednesday. “The WMC’s ‘Divided 2017′ study finds that at ABC, CBS, and NBC combined, men…
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What Journalist Jimmy Breslin Taught Us, or Didn’t, About Diversity
Jimmy Breslin, who died Sunday at 88, was described by the Associated Press as “the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker.” Others hailed his shoe-leather reporting from what seems like another era, and some used the adjective “white” before “working class”…
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Donna Brazile Flatly Denies Giving Questions to Hillary Clinton
Donna Brazile, the veteran Democratic political strategist who parted ways with CNN last year amid WikiLeaks revelations appearing to show that she provided the Hillary Clinton campaign with questions she would be asked in a televised CNN town hall, flatly denied Saturday that she had done so. “At no time did I receive or participate…