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“Amid a renewed national conversation about race in the U.S., a new Pew Research Center survey finds profound differences between black and white Americans in views on racial discrimination, barriers to black progress and the prospects for change,” Pew reported on Monday. “Blacks, far more than whites, say black people are treated unfairly across different…

“CNN drew a fair share of criticism—and some shrugs—when it announced Thursday the hiring of recently fired Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a political commentator,” Kelly McBride and Benjamin Mullin wrote Friday for the Poynter Institute. “The pushback from journalists was twofold. First, Lewandowski was recorded on video manhandling Breitbart journalist Michelle Fields…

“Omar Mateen, the Muslim gunman who committed the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando, was ‘100 percent’ gay and bore a grudge against Latino men because he felt used by them, according to a man who says he was his lover for two months,” Univision reported Tuesday. “ ‘I’ve cried like you have no idea. But…

More than 20,000 fans of the new NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers greeted the team Monday as it returned to Cleveland from its historic come-from-behind victory over the Golden State Warriors, and the Cleveland news media were there to share in—and profit from—the excitement. George Rodrigue, editor of the Plain Dealer, told Journal-isms by email: “-…

It was probably the first time journalists from a variety of news organizations collectively discussed last weekend’s mass shooting in Orlando that left 49 victims dead. The 70 people present for the third Unity Diversity Caucus Friday in Washington picked up a word new to most, “straightwashing.” “Straightwashing” means erasing gay identity. Some news organizations…

Johnson Publishing Co. has sold Ebony magazine and its now digital-only sister publication Jet to an African American-owned private equity firm based in Austin, Texas, the company announced. “We are here to stay,” Cheryl McKissack, who has served as chief operating officer since 2013 and will assume the role of CEO of the new publishing…

The mass nightclub shooting in Orlando early Sunday that killed 50 people and injured 53 others has some journalists and politicians pointing to the dead gunman’s purported connection to the Islamic State, which in some references is being labeled “radical Islam,” a loaded term that a counterterrorism expert has said mischaracterizes the religion. As reported…

“The Associated Press on Tuesday advised staffers to ‘practice situational awareness’ at their bureaus and offices in the wake of social media pushback from supporters of Bernie Sanders who were angered by its decision to call the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton,” Benjamin Mullin reported for the Poynter Institute. “Danny Spriggs, the AP’s vice president…

“The old white sportswriters said the flicking, shying kid with the silly doggerel would get knocked into the ringside seats with one punch,” Sally Jenkins wrote Saturday for the Washington Post. “It was 1964, and Cassius Clay hadn’t yet butterflied into the mythic champion Muhammad Ali. He was still incubating in a sweltering Miami Beach…