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“Executives at OWN think they may have found a way to salvage Oprah Winfrey’s struggling network: by catering more to an African-American audience. That may help ratings, but it would mean a dramatic shift, and one that could put the channel at odds with Winfrey’s own brand,” D.M. Levine wrote Thursday for Adweek. “According to…

T.J. Holmes, the affable CNN weekend anchor who told colleagues on Sunday he was leaving the network, is heading for Black Entertainment Television, according to a source familiar with Holmes’ situation. BET plans to build a show around Holmes, 34, the source said. Neither Holmes nor spokeswomen for BET were available for comment. BET made…

Has Infidelity Been Elevated as Electoral Issue? “All along, the Herman Cain campaign — which Politico called ‘one of the most hapless and bumbling operations in modern presidential politics’ — has been riveting but improbable,” Edward Wasserman, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University in Lexington,…

James Ragland will be reassigned to reporting in neighboring Collin County, Texas, while his arrest on a domestic assault charge is adjudicated, Morning News Editor Bob Mong told Journal-isms on Friday. “There’s no way he can continue his column where he isn’t facing some inevitable conflict,” Mong said. “He writes about the criminal justice system,…

Using FOIA, Bloomberg Obtains 29,000 Pages of Fed Papers “The Federal Reserve and the big banks fought for more than two years to keep details of the largest bailout in U.S. history a secret. Now, the rest of the world can see what it was missing,” Bob Ivry, Bradley Keoun and Phil Kuntz of Bloomberg…

“Two female foreign journalists on Thursday described harrowing sexual assaults carried out by crowds or police as they tried to cover demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square,” Agence France-Presse reported. The situation alarmed other journalists. Hannah Allam, Cairo bureau chief of the McClatchy Co., tweeted Friday, “Saddens me that in 9yrs of war reporting, most personal…

Raymond H. Boone Scoffs at Citation From Richmond, Va. “A newspaper publisher who is allowing Occupy Richmond protesters to camp in his yard next door to the mayor’s house was slapped Tuesday with a zoning-violation notice,” Reed Williams reported Tuesday for the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. But Raymond H. Boone, editor and publisher of the Richmond…

“The Washington Post has pushed out — or is trying to push out — at least thirteen people through layoffs, coerced buyouts or outright dismissal on dubious charges,” Fredrick Kunkle, co-chair of the Newspaper Guild unit at the Post, wrote in a memo posted on the Guild website Monday. “What’s more troubling is that more…