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With Mistrial, Opportunity to Repeat Prior Mistakes A mistrial declared Wednesday in the trial of Baltimore Police Officer William G. Porter provided an opportunity for the news media to recycle images of the unrest that followed the April 12 death of Freddie Gray in police custody.  But how true a representation will those images be? …

Mentors, Mentees Follow Kenny Irby to New Program The Poynter Institute is facing a backlash after forcing out Kenny Irby, its only African American faculty member, last month amid financial challenges. Some black community members have objected so much to Poynter’s change in a mentorship program started and run by Irby that by Irby’s count,…

Richard Prince’s Book Notes™: Holiday Offerings Our latest list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them — the first of two — gives us a chance to praise journalists who rocked the world they found, paving the way for journalists who continue the struggle today. Four of these…

HuffPost: Trump Is No Longer Entertainment N.Y. Times Compares Candidate With Past Demagogues “Earlier today, the candidate currently leading in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination called for a ‘total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,’ ” Arianna Huffington wrote Monday for the Huffington Post. “That was, of course, Donald Trump.…

Reporters Film What San Bernardino Couple Left Behind “This is one of the most bizarre moments in cable-news history,” a Vanity Fair headline proclaimed Friday. The story was labeled “Ethics,” and the title was “TV Reporters Bumble Their Way Through San Bernardino Shooter’s Apartment.” The Atlantic called it “A baffling, surreal scene” and asked, in…

Networks Stay Live for Latest Mass Shooting Mariel Garza, an editorial writer at the Los Angeles Times, was among the first to comment on the mass shooting Wednesday that left at least 14 people dead and 17 wounded in San Bernardino, Calif., the nation’s deadliest since December 2012. Then, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook…

Media Outlets Again Accused of Racial Double Standards “Media rhetoric so often lives in shades of gray, yet when it comes to the terms used to describe people in crime stories, its true colors may be black and white,” Ryan Grenoble, a news editor at the Huffington Post, wrote Monday. “Take the words employed over…

Officer Unloaded Gun on Black Teen 16 Times in 15 Seconds The shocking and disturbing video showing the fatal police shooting of a black Chicago teenager was released Tuesday only after lawsuits by journalists and news organizations — a yearlong delay that has prompted criticism of the city’s black leadership, others in the media, and…

GOP Candidate Stands by Racially Charged Misinformation News media fact checkers leaped on Donald Trump Sunday and Monday over two racially charged — some said racist — statements about Arab Americans and African Americans. “Having already played the hate card against Mexicans and Muslims — and getting crackerjack results — Donald Trump has apparently decided…

Network News President Blunders but Elevates Diaz-Balart “Hispanic lawmakers hoped a meeting with top executives from MSNBC and NBC News Wednesday would smooth over hard feelings from Donald Trump’s appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Instead, it had the opposite effect,” Lauren French and Hadas Gold reported Wednesday for Politico. “NBC News President Deborah Turness committed…