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Ties to Comcast Unite the Two Networks NBC News and TV One are partnering to provide joint coverage on the final nights of the Republican and Democratic conventions, as well as on election night, the two networks announced on Wednesday. “As part of the partnership, TV One will air a four-hour broadcast on the final…

A diverse newsroom leadership team helped deepen the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s coverage of Sunday’s killings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Martin Kaiser, senior vice president and editor, told Journal-isms on Monday. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran with white supremacist ties, opened fire before worship services in nearby Oak Creek, Wis., and killed…

Vote in Tied Secretary’s Race Extended Two Weeks On their first day on the job, the new leaders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists voted 6-5 Saturday to reverse the previous board’s much-criticized policy barring tweeting during NAHJ board meetings. Rebecca Aguilar of Dallas, the newly elected vice president for online, made the motion…

Estimated 2,000 Register, Short of Sponsorship Goal The Unity alliance opened its first convention without the National Association of Black Journalists in Las Vegas on Wednesday, with Executive Director Onica N. Makwakwa estimating the registration at “over 2,000” and telling Journal-isms that the coalition fell $200,000 short of its sponsorship goals. It had sought $1.25…

Will Reinvented Unity Address Affirmative Action? “Like the Olympics, it happens every four years. But you won’t see a lot of spandex at the convention of minority journalists called Unity, happening this week in Las Vegas,” Emil Guillermo wrote Monday in his blog for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. “You won’t see…

Blacks, Latinos Want More Diversity Progress “Unable to reverse a dramatic ratings decline, CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton announced Friday that he is resigning at the end of the year,” as Joe Flint reported Friday for the Los Angeles Times. The move creates an opportunity for the pioneering cable news network — praised in past…

Rumor, Fact Follow Sherman Hemsley, Sally Ride Deaths On Facebook Tuesday, Joyce Ladner, a former interim president of Howard University, posted a notice about the death of actor Sherman Hemsley of television’s “The Jeffersons” and praised him as “out and proud.” Friends approved with a “like.” No point in being in the closet one’s whole…

Pundit Admits Opining on Paterno Statue Too Soon File this under “it sounded good at the time” or “too-infrequent admissions by commentators that they aren’t always right.” Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic magazine blogger, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times last week in which he argued that the statue of Joe Paterno, the disgraced…

Denver Post Editor Greg Moore Says Today’s Coverage Will Have More Impact Than That of ’99 Massacre The mass shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater that killed 12 people and wounded dozens early Friday presents the kind of story that tests news organizations, particularly in an era of cutbacks. The Denver Post, the dominant…

Racial ID Presaged Suspension of Other Media Rules News consumers learned that the man suspected of shooting 70 people in Aurora, Colo., on Friday was white before they knew his name. NPR described the man accused of killing 12 people and injuring at least 58 others as a “white male in his early 20s. “On…