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Charnice Milton Was Killed in Community She Loved
Charnice Milton Slain in D.C. While Used as Human Shield A 27-year-old African American reporter who committed herself to covering the blackest, most neglected portion of the District of Columbia was shot to death Wednesday night when, police said, she was used as a human shield in an exchange of gunfire by two groups of…
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Chicago Outlet Debated Publishing Photo Showing 2 Cops Treating a Black Suspect Like a Deer
Sun-Times Runs a Photo That Police Didn’t Want Seen “Photographs can do a number of things. “They can help frame a news story or put it into better context. “They can convey details and nuances of a story that might otherwise be lost,” Jim Kirk, publisher and editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote…
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Journalist Covering Cleveland Protests Arrested After Forgetting Press Pass
71 Held in Demonstrations after Cleveland Cop’s Acquittal “Northeast Ohio Media Group staffer Kris Wernowsky was arrested while live streaming downtown Cleveland protesters, according to Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Rachel Dissell,” WKYC-TV in Cleveland reported. “Dissell said approximately 800 users were watching Wernowsky’s Periscope live stream, which continued to broadcast after reports of his arrest.…
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Univision Buys The Root—Fusing the No. 1 Hispanic and the No. 1 Black News Outlets in the US
Broadcaster, Black-Themed Site Each See Chance for Growth TheRoot.com has been sold to Univision Communications Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the parties announced Thursday, in a deal that puts a slice of the African American market in the domain of the U.S. company most dominant in Spanish-language broadcasting. “I’m excited,” Donna Byrd, publisher of TheRoot.com,…
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Why Weren’t the Murderous Biker Gangs in Texas Dubbed ‘Thugs’ by Mainstream Media?
Social Media Quick to Comment on Media Coverage “The scene in Waco on Sunday was like something off a TV show,” Dan Solomon wrote Monday for Texas Monthly. “Broad daylight shoot-outs between rival gangs that leave nine dead and eighteen others hospitalized rarely happen in Texas strip malls, but the biker-themed event at the Twin Peaks…
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Blacks Were Largely Absent From Writing B.B. King Story
Cultural, Generational Reasons Offered as Theories B.B. King, whose “whose scorching guitar licks and heartfelt vocals made him the idol of generations of musicians and fans while earning him the nickname King of the Blues,” in the words of Associated Press writer Ken Ritter, died Thursday night at 89. But on Friday, amid a multitude…
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5 Journalists Who Were on Derailed Amtrak Train in Philly Recount Their Experiences
Cheung of AAJA, NBC’s Janelle Richards Aboard Train At least five journalists — Paul Cheung of the Associated Press, who is national president of the Asian American Journalists Association; Janelle Richards, an “NBC Nightly News” producer; Beth Davidz, a former Associated Press reporter; Jill Jorgensen, a reporter for the New York Observer; and financial journalist Jeff Cutler…
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NY Times Exposé Prompts Gov. to Improve the Wage and Work Conditions for Immigrant Nail Salon Workers
Governor Acts After N.Y. Times Series on Abused Immigrants New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) reacted to a New York Times series on the exploitation of Asian and Hispanic workers in New York nail salons byordering “emergency measures on Sunday to combat the wage theft and health hazards faced by the thousands of people” who work…
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Race Plays Role in Chicago DUI Checkpoints
Post-Trayvon, Media Outlets Look Harder at Police “Chicago’s Jefferson Park police district is drawn around a leafy residential area on the Northwest Side, home to about one-fifth of the city’s police officers and their families ,” Angela Caputo reported Friday for the Chicago Tribune. “The district, which is predominantly white, also has one of the…
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How 1 Outlet Covered the Unethical Photo Contest Depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad
Dallas Readers Had to Opt In to See Provocative Images When an anti-Muslim group’s contest to see who could draw the most provocative cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad ended near Dallas Sunday with two assailants dead, one ethical challenge again faced news outlets: whether to show the images of Muhammad that caused the controversy, images some…