Media
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Blacks in Downtown Philly More Likely to Be Stopped by Police
Analysis Shows African Americans Comprise Two-Thirds of Stops Indoors Dreamer Supporters Challenge Journalism Course 3 Black Journalists Take Buyout in Cleveland Sherrie Marshall Retires as Macon Telegraph Editor ProPublica, Philly Inquirer Find Misconduct by ICE Elizabeth Vargas Jumps from ABC to A+E Networks Teachings in Racist Textbooks Reverberate Today Douglass Was Committed to Media Ownership…
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The Night MLK Was Assassinated, as Told by Two White Reporters
Valentine: ‘Sending Black-White Teams to Blowouts Was an Important Journalistic Policy.’ Levey: ‘I Couldn’t Have Looked More White, or More Establishment, if I Had Tried.’ Smothers: ‘I Was Shocked’ When the FBI Showed a Photo They Took of Me Short Take Two weeks ago, this column presented accounts from three African American reporters who covered…
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Essence Drops Its Editor-in-Chief
Longtime Staffer Patrik Henry Bass Also Out Clyburn to Step Down from FCC after 8 Years Chow Leaving Asian American Journalists Group Short Take Editor-in-Chief Vanessa DeLuca and Editorial Projects Director Patrik Henry Bass of Essence magazine have been let go in a restructuring, sources told Journal-isms on Thursday. DeLuca, who became editor-in-chief in 2013,…
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How the Pulitzer Board Chose Kendrick Lamar
First Hip-Hop Artist Picked Over Classical, Jazz Acts . . . ‘As a Black Woman,’ Figuring Out Dylann Roof” Lisa Wilson on Ladder to Lead Sports Editors Group Getty, Ava DuVernay Team to Aid Visual Journalists Nominate a J-Educator Who Promotes Diversity The most surprising Pulitzer Prize Monday came at the very end: The last…
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Los Angeles Times Union Finds Long-Standing Racial Pay Gap
Newspaper Underpaid Women, People of Color NAACP Sees Blacks’ Future in State, Local Races Responding to Critics, Sinclair Lashes Out at CNN Local TV News Employs More Than Newspapers Shaun King, Activist Journalist, Detained at Customs Exposure to Gun Violence Can Lead to PTSD Jim Avila to Receive Transplant From His Brother How Ruby Bridges…
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Will Trump-Friendly Sinclair Face Consequences for ‘Fake Stories’ Script?
Journalism Groups Say Broadcaster Crossed Line ICE Seizes Memphis Reporter as Undocumented U.S. to Become ‘Minority White’ in 2045 Lest the Media Forget the Other Civil Rights Leaders Greg Moore ‘Angry’ Over Plight of Denver Post BuzzFeed Headline Led to Trump Tweet, Critic Says More Coverage Given Alleged Violence by Muslims Gaza Journalist Fatally Shot…
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Fewer Black Journalists Seem to Want to Cover Their Own
Fear of Being ‘Pigeonholed,’ Psychic Toll at Issue In 1984, Jesse Jackson won applause when he told the National Association of Black Journalists, then approaching its ninth year, “You must become the authorities on African American and African experience. “Before you be a little of everything to everybody, be something special to where you live.”…
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Jesse Jackson to Black Journalists in 1984: ‘You Work in Pain’
Jackson: ‘Before You Be a Little of Everything to Everybody, Be Something Special to Where You Live’ The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson spoke before about 860 people on Saturday night, Aug. 18, 1984, at the banquet of the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention. Among those in the audience was Coretta Scott King. Here are…
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April 4, 1968, as Told by Black Reporters
Three Describe the Night of King’s Death 1. White: Editors Had ‘Domino Theory of Rioting’ 2. West: A Need ‘to Put Our Imprint on the Stories’ 3. Caldwell: ‘I Took It to Be a Bomb’ The Athletic Making Little Progress on Diversity NAHJ Reaches 7-Year Membership High Immigrants Found to Drive Crime Down, Not Up…
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Media Attention Turns to Laws That Excuse Fatal Police Shootings
Columnists Raise Issue After Stephon Clark Death Poynter to Boost News Literacy for Students of Color 37% of New Hires at N.Y. Times Were of Color ProPublica to Formalize ‘Rooney Rule’ on Hiring ASNE Honors Stories on Harassment, Border Wall Newsroom Harassment Bigger ‘Than Anyone Thinks’ Indian Country Isn’t Into #DeleteFacebook Ethiopia Rearrests Freed Press-Freedom…