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NPR Cancels Multicultural “Tell Me More” Host Michel Martin Given Network-Wide Role NPR said Tuesday it is ending production of “Tell Me More,” the multicultural daily magazine hosted by Michel Martin that began in 2007, promising a wider role for Martin and regretting the budget crunch that executives said made the cancellation and other cuts…

Baquet Calls Glenn Greenwald Criticism “Idiotic” Update: Ravi Somaiya, New York Times: Times Publisher Denies Gender Figured in Top Editor’s Dismissal (May 17) Update: Howard Kurtz, Fox News: Sulzberger, under siege, rips Jill Abramson for poor management (May 17) “Gossip overshadowed the history-making moment for Dean Baquet. He became the first African-American to head the…

Veteran Journalist Is First African American in Role Dean Baquet, managing editor of the New York Times and former top editor at the Los Angeles Times, was named executive editor on Wednesday after Jill Abramson stepped down from the New York newspaper’s top editorial job. “Baquet, 57, becomes the first African American in the job. “It is…

“Too Terrifying for Words,” Says One Who Escaped “CNN’s Nima Elbagir, Lillian Leposo and Nick Migwe made the dangerous journey to Chibok, Nigeria, to gather firsthand accounts of the abduction of the schoolgirls — and how people in the northeastern town are still living in fear,” according to an editor’s note introducing this CNN story…

Jarl Mohn Says Latino Listenership Nearly Doubled in L.A. Jarl Mohn, a veteran media executive and investor chosen by NPR to become its next president and CEO, said Friday that he will model diversity efforts at the network on those at Southern California Public Radio, where he is board chairman. Mohn said its station, KPCC,…

“Everything Is Moving Faster,” Publisher  Says, Quoting Dad Jet magazine, a staple in black homes, beauty parlors and barber shops since 1951, is ending print publication at the end of June and becoming a digital magazine app, Johnson Publishing Co. announced on Wednesday. The transition marks an accommodation to the Internet age, during which the…

Many Hispanics Don’t Claim a Race; Unusual Rise in Indians “Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research presented at the annual Population Association of America meeting last week,” D’Vera Cohn wrote Monday for the Pew Research…

Why Wasn’t Owner’s History Given Greater Play Earlier? The saga of Donald Sterling’s racist remarks, which could cost him ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, put black commentators in the spotlight in a way rarely seen recently. At least two related the NBA owner’s situation to the low numbers of journalists of color or of…

New York Police Outreach Becomes PR Disaster “An exercise in social media outreach turned #epicfail Tuesday when users flooded the Twittersphere with some of the NYPD’s most infamous moments of brutality, the Daily News in New York reported. “The NYPD, through its Twitter page, innocuously asked people on to post pictures of themselves interacting with New…

Slate Raises Hackles Speculating on Hispanics, Whiteness When George Zimmerman was tried last year in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, descriptions of Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic” rankled some whites as well as a number of Hispanics. “Whites think the media were intent on telling a tragic tale in terms of a white villain and a black…