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“Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management — and his white nationalist fanboys love it,” Betsy Woodruff and Gideon Resnick wrote Wednesday for the Daily Beast. “The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News — where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the reputations of anti-immigrant fear-mongers. “White…

The 19-year-old son of a Chicago police officer returning home for a visit from St. John’s University in New York where he was majoring in journalism was shot and killed Sunday morning, Chicago and New York news organizations reported. “The shooting took place in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side just after midnight, according…

Bill Clinton, acting as a surrogate for his wife’s presidential campaign, told Asian American journalists and voter activists Friday, “You want a president like Hillary Clinton who sees you as part and parcel of the quilt of diversity . . . We should be expanding the definition of ‘us’ and shrinking the definition of ‘them,’…

In a half-hour podcast [audio] recorded Wednesday by the Futuro Media Group, led by public broadcasting’s Maria Hinojosa, four journalists of color gave fresh takes on the longstanding question of whether they feel “pigeonholed” by covering race. Their short answer was they’re covering today’s big story. They also discussed stories on race that the media…

“John Saunders, one of ESPN’s most visible and versatile commentators and a founding member of the board of directors for The V Foundation for Cancer Research, has passed away,” ESPN announced on Wednesday. “He was 61.” “Saunders died Wednesday morning,” A.J. Perez reported for USA Today. “The cause of Saunders’ passing was not immediately known,…

Donald J. Trump’s campaign reportedly cited a scheduling conflict in declining an invitation to address the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention, and a parody Twitter account using the name Donald Trump Jr. — one of his chief advisers — surely won’t win the GOP candidate much forgiveness from people…

Hillary Clinton addressed the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Friday after not holding a full-fledged news conference in more than seven months. Do the Democrats take Latinos for granted? Here is part of @HillaryClinton‘s answer at #NABJNAHJ16 pic.twitter.com/FOaD5k8MXC — Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August…

Donald J. Trump turned down an invitation to address the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, NABJ said Wednesday as preparations continued for Friday’s address by Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. C-SPAN spokesman Howard Mortman told Journal-isms that C-SPAN radio and television will carry Clinton’s…

Hillary Clinton will address the joint convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in Washington on Friday, the two groups confirmed on Monday. “The format is up in the air at the moment and it is unclear if Clinton will take questions, according to a source familiar…

“One implicit message on the first night of the Democratic convention: Even if you regard both major-party candidates as economic and foreign-policy disasters, recall the undocumented immigrants that stood on the stage, the black man with a Latino wife, the first black First Lady of the United States, the embrace of LGBT activists, and try…