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Pundit Won’t Be Appearing on Air “For the Time Being” CNN Wednesday suspended commentator Roland Martin over the tweets that the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has denounced as anti-gay. A CNN spokeswoman confirmed that the network issued this statement: “Roland Martin’s tweets were regrettable and offensive. Language that demeans is inconsistent with the…

Robert Naylor Jr., a diversity advocate within the Associated Press who was director of career development/news, was laid off on Friday, a day after the news cooperative announced it would restore a key diversity initiative, its internship programs.   Naylor’s departure follows other layoffs, including those of other long-serving journalists of color: Dolores Barclay, East Coast…

The tipster who notified TMZ.com about the death of “Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius Wednesday morning might never be identified, but no identity was needed for the story to quickly consume social media and expand into the mainstream. TMZ.com, which has gained notoriety for breaking such celebrity news, reported at 6 a.m. Pacific Time: “Don…

Jewish Group Sees Chance to Influence Hispanics Five Latino journalists returned last week from an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel in another bid by an American Jewish group to influence the United States’ growing Latino population. “We welcome to Israel a group of prestigious journalists, publishers and reporters from the U.S. Hispanic Community,” proclaimed the New…

Tuskegee Airman Recalls Role of the Black Press Black journalists received a salute from a spokesman for the Tuskegee Airmen Thursday night when Dr. Roscoe Brown told the National Association of Black Journalists, “It was black journalists that brought us to the attention of the black community throughout the country during the time we were…

In Poll, Career Success Trumps Having Children, Romance “Black women are far more likely than white women to place importance on career success and are less inclined to focus on having children or being in a romantic relationship, according to a new, nationwide survey by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation,” the Post…

Visitors to African American-oriented websites upended the pecking order in December, according to the comScore Inc. research company, ending the long run of the lurid gossip site MediaTakeOut.com as champion eyeball magnet. That distinction, for now, goes to the website of Black Entertainment Television. Moreover, the newsier sites HuffPost BlackVoices, theGrio.com, theRoot.com, Essence.com and NewsOne,…

Sandra Guzman, Formerly of Latina, Named Editor-in-Chief A group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry has purchased Heart & Soul, a health-and-wellness magazine targeting African Americans, and named former Latina magazine editor-in-chief Sandra Guzman its top editor as part of an effort to broaden its focus. “Racial and ethnic minorities constituted 91.7 percent of…

Alex Kellogg, Wall St. Journal Alum, Leaves After 14 Months Alex P. Kellogg, one of NPR’s two black male on-air journalists, has left the network after 14 months on the job, Kellogg told Journal-isms on Monday. Kellogg’s departure reaffirms that the network’s decades-old issues regarding diversity have yet to be solved. They are often attributed…

Mumia Abu-Jamal, the onetime president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists who became an international symbol of opposition to the death penalty, is being subjected to “worse” prison conditions today than when he was on death row, his supporters say. Abu-Jamal, convicted in the 1981 killing of police officer Daniel Faulkner, was liberated from…