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David Steinberg, Janet Cho Seek to Lead Troubled Coalition With the National Association of Hispanic Journalists planning not to participate, the coalition once known as Unity: Journalists of Color expects to elect a new president next week, with a white man vying for the office for the first time. David A. Steinberg, a board member…

“The script followed by the media during the coverage of the shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington is an all-too-familiar one,” Jack Mirkinson wrote Monday for the Huffington Post. “The story has unfolded in confusing, conflicting pieces, in real time, in front of viewers and on Twitter. And, just as in Newtown, and in Boston, key…

Anchor Job Denied Until Reporter Looked Less Asian “Officials at WDTN have apologized to talk and reality show host Julie Chen a day after she revealed [that] comments from one of the station’s former news directors led to her developing a complex about her Asian heritage that ended in plastic surgery,” Amelia Robinson wrote Thursday…

News Corp, Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Discovery on the List “In our research to create the [Black Enterprise] Registry of Corporate Directors, our listing of black board members from the 250 largest companies on the S&P 500, we discovered that 75 companies — 30% — currently do not have any blacks on their boards including quite…

President Obama is preparing to address the nation on Syria Tuesday night after granting seven-minute interviews Monday to six network news programs — but not Univision, Al Jazeera or black-oriented television networks — in which he left open the possibility of a diplomatic solution to the crisis over reports of Syria’s use of chemical weapons.…

Oneida Nation Buys Time in Cities Where Team Will Play Opponents of the Washington Redskins team name are opening a new front in their battle. The Oneida Indian Nation plans to run radio ads in the Washington market Sunday and Monday, and in the markets of the opposing team when the NFL franchise plays its…

African Americans, President Obama’s most loyal voting bloc, nevertheless are breaking with the president over his request for military action against Syria, according to two new surveys. Hispanics likewise join the majority in their opposition to a military response to reports that the Syrian government used chemical weapons. “A sharply divided Senate committee voted Wednesday…

“Lee Daniels’ The Butler engineered a surprise victory over Morgan Spurlock’s 3D concert documentary One Direction: This Is Us at the Labor Day box office, becoming the first movie of 2013 to top the North American chart three weekends in a row,” Pamela McClintock reported Monday for the Hollywood Reporter. The book version, “The Butler:…

Coverage of Latest March Shows Progress, Setbacks Could African American progress since the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom be measured by the roles black journalists assumed in coverage of the march’s commemoration 50 years later? One Journal-isms reader in Washington was disappointed. “I noticed there were no black bylines on the main…

Gannett Removes Stovall as Editor at Binghamton, N.Y. Calvin Stovall was removed Wednesday as executive editor of the Gannett Co.’s Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y., in what was described as a cost-saving move. It was but one in a series of personnel decisions that have forced black journalists to run gauntlets created by their…