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Historic Week for Company With Jet’s Last Print Edition The end of the print edition of Jet magazine this week is only one piece of history taking place at the parent Johnson Publishing Co. In assembling a new team for Ebony magazine, of which she is now editor, former Jet editor Mitzi Miller is proceeding…

Nexstar Offers to Sell 3 Fox Outlets to Entreprener Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., said Friday that it had agreed to sell three television stations to black media entrepreneur Pluria Marshall Jr. in a deal that, if approved, would nearly double the tiny number of full-powered African American-owned commercial television stations. The deal would require a…

Nexstar Offers to Sell 3 Fox Outlets to Entrepreneur Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., said Friday that it had agreed to sell three television stations to black media entrepreneur Pluria Marshall Jr. in a deal that, if approved, would nearly double the tiny number of full-powered African American-owned commercial television stations. The deal would require a…

“The Bravest Girl You’ll Ever Meet” Story Tells of Polio Victim Left for 10 Days in Forest An Associated Press story about “The bravest girl you’ll ever meet,” in the words of a tweet Monday from the reporter, is winning kudos for its emotional power and its journalism. The story tells of a 10-year-old girl…

Richmond, Va., Journalist Insisted on High Standards Raymond H. Boone Sr., the colorful, principled and feisty founder, editor and publisher of the weekly Richmond (Va.) Free Press, died Tuesday at his Richmond home after battling pancreatic cancer, his wife, Jean Boone, told Journal-isms. He was 76. Boone was on the job until nearly the end,…

“I Identify with People Who Don’t Have Much Power” Dean Baquet, the first African American top editor at the New York Times, does not talk much publicly about race, but he says that he owes his job to the black journalists who came before him and that his own background makes him “want to make…

In 1960, Renaissance Woman Landed Editor’s Job in Egypt Maya Angelou, the Renaissance woman who assumed roles ranging from poet to calypso singer, for a brief time was also a journalist. Angelou, who died at 86 Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., had her baptism of fire in journalism in 1960. As Angelou explained…

Mark Cuban Remarks Prove Fodder for TV Food Fights “Two CNN panelists really went at each other on Friday night over Mark Cuban‘s comments about prejudice,” Josh Feldman wrote for Mediaite, referring to the tech millionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. “Author Tim Wise duked it out with conservative commentator Crystal Wright over exactly what the crime rate is in the black…

The Atlantic Launches P.R. Blitz for Ta-Nehisi Coates “On Wednesday night, The Atlantic posted the cover story for its June 2014 print issue: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘The Case for Reparations,’ ” Edirin Oputu wrote Friday for Columbia Journalism Review. “A vast, multimedia, multi-chapter story in the vein of Nikole Hannah-Jones’ recent investigation into the resegregation of America’s schools, ‘The…

NPR Favors Integration Into Other Programming “Tell Me More,” NPR’s third try at a daily newsmagazine that targeted people of color, “was not financially sustainable in its current form,” an NPR executive told Journal-isms on Wednesday, leaving the implication that no such show could be. NPR announced on Tuesday that, effective Aug. 1, it is…