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Brutal Prizefighter Injuries Raise Questions About Coverage
Some Still Say Fighters Fare Better in Ring Than in Streets “In the span of two weeks last fall, two prizefighters went to the hospital after their bouts. Francisco Leal, 26, died of a brain injury after a knockout loss to Raul Hirales on October 19,” Alan Neuhauser wrote Thursday for Columbia Journalism Review. “Magomed…
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VIPs and Her Media Peers Cheer Robin Roberts’ Coming Out
“When ‘Good Morning America’ co-anchor Robin Roberts took to her Facebook page to count her blessings, express gratitude for her recovery from a rare blood and bone marrow disease and thank her longtime girlfriend, Roberts didn’t just come out,” Patrick Kevin Day wrote Tuesday for the Los Angeles Times. “As one of the most prominent personalities on TV, media watchers…
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2013: Top 10 Race-Related Stories in the Media Industry
1. Growing Intolerance of Intolerance, Insensitivity How many race-related gaffes can you remember from 2013? The year ended with a flap over remarks by the patriarch of the A&E series “Duck Dynasty” and a retracted tweet from comedian Steve Martin, but the journalism world experienced bursts of controversial speech all year. ESPN was the locus…
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Setback for Black-TV Station Ownership
St. Louis Brothers to Give Up Stations in Three Cities “We just experienced a shameful milestone in the history of U.S. media — and barely anyone noticed,” according to Joseph Torres and S. Derek Turner of the media advocacy group Free Press. “There are now zero black-owned and operated full-power TV stations in our country”…
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R. Kelly, the Media and the Status of Black Women
“Nobody Matters Less to Our Society Than Young Black Women” “It has been nearly 15 years since music journalist Jim DeRogatis caught the story that has since defined his career, one that he wishes didn’t exist: R. Kelly’s sexual predation on teenage girls,” Jessica Hopper reported Monday for the Village Voice, referring to the R&B…
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Criticism for the New York Times’ Coverage of Homeless Family
“Invisible Child,” a five-part series about child homelessness published last week in the New York Times, is winning kudos as an example of the role that newspapers have traditionally played in calling attention to appalling social conditions — except from the rival New York Post, which put a “bah, humbug” on the series in an…
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Obama Administration Fends Off Complaints About Press Access
A hard-hitting report faulting the Obama administration for its war on leaks and other efforts to control information — “the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post’s investigation of Watergate,” said its author, Leonard Downie Jr. — might have made waves in…
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US Coverage ‘the Worst’ for Describing Mandela as a Man of Peace
For some American journalists of color, covering the South African liberation struggle was a career marker, especially if they could be present for Nelson Mandela’s release from 27 years in prison in 1990 or for the first all-race elections in 1994, when Mandela was chosen president. Journal-isms asked some of them what they thought of…
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Mandela Was a Revolutionary, Not a ‘Lovable Cardboard Character’
“More than 2,500 foreign press are expected to visit South Africa to cover the memorial services and funeral this week of the man described as ‘the father of the nation‘,” according to South Africa’s Channel 24. The memorial service began Tuesday at 4 a.m. EST (11 a.m. Johannesburg time) and was scheduled to be repeated…