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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…
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Mandela: The Media’s Prince Charming
Nelson Mandela had a way with journalists. Charlayne Hunter-Gault became part of the coverage of Mandela’s death Thursday as an interview subject and a news analyst. Her early visits to apartheid-era South Africa left her with a bond of familiarity, she told Al Sharpton on his MSNBC “PoliticsNation” show shortly after the news that Mandela had…
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New York Post Beats ‘Racially Hostile Workplace’ Lawsuit
The New York Post has withstood lawsuits by two black journalists who charged that they faced a hostile work environment at the newspaper. It has also “resolved” a related case filed by Sandra Guzman, a black Latina who said she was harassed and fired after she spoke out against the infamous 2009 Post cartoon that…
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Growing Doubts About Whether the ‘Knockout Game’ Is a Real Trend
“The woman is defenseless, strolling down the street with a pocketbook over her shoulder,” Jesse Singal wrote last week for Columbia Journalism Review. “She has no idea that she’s about to be brutally attacked. The man, who is black, runs up behind her, rears his right arm back and to the side, and strikes her viciously in…
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32 Mugshots of Black Men on Cover of Tenn. Newspaper Cause Uproar
Tenn. Paper Catches Heat for Front Page Array of Mug Shots ”On Nov. 5, the Times Free Press published a front-page story about the arrests of 32 men charged with gun and drug crimes after a four-year local and federal investigation. Chattanooga Police Chief Bobby Dodd called the suspects the ‘worst of the worst’ in…
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White Writers Join N-Word Debate
Wise”>” ‘You Don’t Get It; You’re White’ . . . Doesn’t Work for Me” White writers are coming forward to say they cannot sit on the sidelines in the debate over who can use the “N-Word,” if anyone. The latest is Mike Wise, Washington Post sports columnist, who responded in Friday’s printed Post, “I deserve…