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1. Oprah Winfrey’s OWN, a Blow for Entrepreneurship? 2. NABJ Leaves Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc. 3. More Mainstream Media Seek Hispanic Niche 4. T.J. Holmes, Russ Mitchell Kiss Weekend Slots Goodbye 5. Numbers Weren’t Encouraging 6. Sports Editors to Train, Mentor Mid-Career Journalists of Color, Women for Management 7. Seeking Prime-Time Anchor Slots on…

Forbes magazine Monday unveiled its list of “30 Under 30” — “These are the people who aren’t waiting to reinvent the world. FORBES, leaning on the wisdom of its readers and the greatest minds in business, presents the 30 disrupters under 30, in each of 12 fields, making a difference right now.” One field was…

Managing Editor Title Comes With Move to Local Station “Russ Mitchell, current anchor of the CBS Evening News weekend editions and The Early Show on Saturday, and national correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, the CBS Evening News, and The Early Show will be joining the staff of WKYC as Managing Editor Evening News and…

It’s been a while since a young black man wrote such an opinion piece in the New York Times, and on Monday, the comments were cut off at 634. There were more, though, in other social media. “. . . One evening in August of 2006, I was celebrating my 18th birthday with my cousin…

Steven Gray of Washington Bureau Announces His Exit Five years ago, Journal-isms asked Ali Zelenko, vice president for communications at Time Inc., to name the journalists of color at Time magazine. Among the 15 she listed were black journalists Janice Simpson, assistant managing editor; Ta-Nehisi Coates, staff writer; Perry Bacon Jr., Washington correspondent; and Sonja…

George Curry, Partners Seek to Own Women’s Magazine If financing arrangements succeed, Heart & Soul, a health-and-fitness magazine targeting black women, will be acquired by what would be its sixth owner in its 23 years — a group that includes veteran journalist George E. Curry and his former associates at Black Entertainment Television and the…

“Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned author Isabel Wilkerson has not fulfilled her requirements as a College of Communication professor and a member of the Boston University faculty-in-residence program despite her relatively high professor’s salary and other benefits, BU students and faculty said,” Steph Solis reported Monday for the Daily Free Press at Boston University. “The…

“Executives at OWN think they may have found a way to salvage Oprah Winfrey’s struggling network: by catering more to an African-American audience. That may help ratings, but it would mean a dramatic shift, and one that could put the channel at odds with Winfrey’s own brand,” D.M. Levine wrote Thursday for Adweek. “According to…

T.J. Holmes, the affable CNN weekend anchor who told colleagues on Sunday he was leaving the network, is heading for Black Entertainment Television, according to a source familiar with Holmes’ situation. BET plans to build a show around Holmes, 34, the source said. Neither Holmes nor spokeswomen for BET were available for comment. BET made…

Has Infidelity Been Elevated as Electoral Issue? “All along, the Herman Cain campaign — which Politico called ‘one of the most hapless and bumbling operations in modern presidential politics’ — has been riveting but improbable,” Edward Wasserman, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington,…