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The Associated Press and NPR have decided to cut back on use of the term “Obamacare,” with NPR describing the word as seeming “to be straddling somewhere between being a politically-charged term and an accepted part of the vernacular.” Stuart Seidel, NPR’s managing editor for standards and practice, issued his style ruling Tuesday after this…

Reactions Differ on “Obamacare,” “Affordable Care Act” “What’s in a name? When it comes to the debate over health care, apparently a lot,” Steve Liesman reported Thursday for CNBC. “In CNBC’s third-quarter All-America Economic Survey, we asked half of the 812 poll respondents if they support Obamacare and the other half if they support the…

NLGJA Delegate Wins, 6-4, as NAHJ Sits Out Vote David Steinberg, a former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, has been elected president of Unity: Journalists for Diversity, the coalition announced Friday. Steinberg, who becomes the first white president of the former Unity: Journalists of Color, defeated Janet Cho of the Asian…

The leadership of CNN’s Diversity Council is changing, with Johnita P. Due, its longtime chair, stepping down and Maria Ebrahimji, its vice chair, leaving the network, a CNN spokeswoman said on Thursday. The change at the council, coupled with criticism of CNN’s diversity record since Jeff Zucker became CNN president last year, led to a…

Race Factor Raised in Graphic Images From Kenya On Saturday, the New York Times published remarkable close-up photographs by a staff photographer who happened to be near the bloody shopping center assault in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed at least 62 people. But another Africa-based photographer asked in an open letter the next day, “Would the…

New Yorker Cover Depicts “What We Live Every Day” With so much distressing news about news-media backsliding on diversity, it was refreshing to come across the cover of the Sept. 23 edition of the New Yorker showing a white boy and a black girl holding hands as they navigate New York. It was even more…

David Steinberg, Janet Cho Seek to Lead Troubled Coalition With the National Association of Hispanic Journalists planning not to participate, the coalition once known as Unity: Journalists of Color expects to elect a new president next week, with a white man vying for the office for the first time. David A. Steinberg, a board member…

“The script followed by the media during the coverage of the shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington is an all-too-familiar one,” Jack Mirkinson wrote Monday for the Huffington Post. “The story has unfolded in confusing, conflicting pieces, in real time, in front of viewers and on Twitter. And, just as in Newtown, and in Boston, key…

Anchor Job Denied Until Reporter Looked Less Asian “Officials at WDTN have apologized to talk and reality show host Julie Chen a day after she revealed [that] comments from one of the station’s former news directors led to her developing a complex about her Asian heritage that ended in plastic surgery,” Amelia Robinson wrote Thursday…

News Corp, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Discovery on the List “In our research to create the [Black Enterprise] Registry of Corporate Directors, our listing of black board members from the 250 largest companies on the S&P 500, we discovered that 75 companies — 30% — currently do not have any blacks on their boards including quite…