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Media Debates Whether to Show the Faces of White Teens Who Assembled to Spell the N-Word With Their Shirts
Some Blur Faces; Media “Cautious With a Hurtful Image” A photo of six white Arizona high school girls who arranged their shirts to spell “Ni**er” (with actual asterisks) when they stood together went viral over the weekend after they posted it on social media. The photo, taken Friday after the girls posed for their senior…
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Madame Noire Tops Black-Oriented Websites
The most popular African American website for 2015 wasn’t known for its discussions of Black Lives Matter, Donald Trump or killer snowstorms, according to a compilation from the ComScore, Inc., research company. That distinction goes to Madame Noire, which calls itself “a sophisticated lifestyle publication that gives African-American women the latest in fashion trends, black…
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Latinos Are the Largest Nonwhite Group but Will Be Underrepresented Among Voters in 2016
Despite Numbers, Voting Influence Seen as Limited Latinos, now the nation’s largest minority group, will make up a record 11.9 percent of all U.S. eligible voters in 2016, pulling nearly even with blacks at 12.4 percent, the Pew Research Center reported on Tuesday. But “for many reasons, Latino voters are likely to once again be…
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Dallas Morning News Cuts Community Pages and Lays Off Only Native Journalist
Morning News Cuts 13 “neighborsgo” Jobs The Dallas Morning News yesterday shut down its neighborsgo section covering community news and its FD magazine covering the Dallas area’s luxury market, cutting 13 neighborsgo jobs and six FD positions. “There is no pretending that this isn’t a loss to us and to our readers,” Publisher and CEO…
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Critics Say Obama’s State of the Union Speech Didn’t Home In on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Many Wish “State of the Union” Addressed Race Issues President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night might have been a vision for the future, an exit interview with the American people or a chance to respond to critics of his presidency, but in some quarters the relevant questions were how much the president…
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Journalists Take Aim at Sean Penn’s Interview With Drug Lord in Rolling Stone
“Insult to Journalists” to Give Drug Lord Approval “Almost as soon as Rolling Stone’s first scoop of the year, an interview with the Sinaloa Cartel’s bloody kingpin known as ‘El Chapo,’ was published late Saturday night, the critiques began rolling in,” Caitlin Cruz reported Monday for Talking Points Memo. “Chief among them was an ethical…
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Black Investigative Reporters on Why This Important Beat Remains a ‘White Male Crowd’
Melvin Claxton remembers working on an investigation at the Detroit News that landed a finalist spot in the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2003. The News looked at “how the failures of Wayne County law enforcement agencies allowed more than 26,000 fugitives to roam the streets of Detroit with little fear of apprehension. It…
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Obama’s Proposed Gun Control Measures Would Not Have Stopped Recent Mass Shootings: Newswire
“The gun control measures a tearful President Barack Obama announced Tuesday would not have prevented the slaughters of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, or 14 county workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California,” Michael R. Sisak reported Wednesday for the Associated Press. Among other media reactions to the…
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Exploring the Double Standard: What if the Ore. Militants Were Black or Muslim?
Treatment of Armed White Protesters at Issue “The Oregon protest at a federal wildlife refuge has reignited an already intense debate on social media about policing, race and terrorism,” Katie Rogers reported Monday for the New York Times. “On Saturday, an armed group of antigovernment protesters occupied a remote federal wildlife refuge in Oregon and…
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A Media Circus Flanks Bill Cosby As He Faces Charges
Daily News Cover: “He Said-She Said” 55 Times Over “A media throng” followed Bill Cosby on Wednesday as he reported for his arraignment outside Philadelphia on a charge of felony indecent assault, reviving a decade-old allegation that he drugged and sexually attacked a former Temple University employee. No cameras were allowed in the courtroom, but…