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Company Maintains Advertisers Shortchange Black Media The March issue of Ebony magazine was never published because the parent Johnson Publishing Co. was in a dispute with advertisers over rates, CEO Desireé Rogers told Journal-isms on Friday. The dispute has been settled to Johnson’s satisfaction, and a combined March-April issue is planned, Rogers said by telephone.…

Some Say Assignment Demonstrates Power of Journalism “In the wrong writer’s hands, an obituary can be a dull collection of biographical facts, the type of article that journalism professor William Drummond calls the ‘lowest common denominator’ of newspaper writing,” Chris Megerian wrote last week in the Los Angeles Times, in a piece accompanied by a…

Long-Overlooked Story Told of Continent’s “Palestine” A year ago, the Moroccan government paid expenses for representatives of the U.S. black press to visit their country. Morocco controls what is called “Africa’s last colony,” but that was hardly mentioned. That “last colony” — Western Sahara — is a place that few Americans are familiar with. It…

“Around the time the 2020 Census is conducted, more than half of the nation’s children are expected to be part of a minority race or ethnic group,” the U.S. Census Bureau reported on Tuesday. “This proportion is expected to continue to grow so that by 2060, just 36 percent of all children (people under age…

Media, Whistleblowers Both Win in Supreme Court Ruling “Were media lawyers asleep at the wheel when a major whistleblower case came through the Supreme Court this term?” Kimberly Chow wrote Monday for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “While all eyes were turned on Jim Risen and efforts to revise Justice Department policies on when it subpoenas…

Hispanic Journalists Rejoice; Rainbow PUSH Not So Much “In approving strong net neutrality regulations, the Federal Communications Commission fulfilled a decade long desire by public interest advocates, technology firms and Democrats to tighten government oversight of the Internet to prevent abuses by broadband service providers,” Jim Puzzanghera reported Friday for the Los Angeles Times. “But…

More than a third of Americans don’t think President Obama loves America, according to a new survey,” Jesse Byrnes reported Wednesday for the Hill newspaper. Separately, “Over half of Republicans answered ‘Muslim’ when asked which religion describes President Obama’s ‘deep down’ beliefs, according to a newly released poll by Alex Theodoridis of the University of…

President of Maynard Institute Succumbs to Lung Cancer Dori J. Maynard, president of the Robert C. Maynard institute for Journalism Education and longtime champion of diversity in journalism and civic life, died Tuesday at her West Oakland, Calif., home, the Institute announced. She was 56. Maynard died of lung cancer and kept her illness closely…

Pulitzer Winner Wesley Morris Says He Has to Go There “Last year’s hacked dump of private emails stolen from Sony Pictures Entertainment employees included a much-reported exchange between the company’s chairperson, Amy Pascal, and producer Scott Rudin, in which they joked about the kinds of movies President Obama might enjoy,” Wesley Morris, winner of the…