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Station Says Axing Was About Policy, Not Hair
Responding to an uproar over the firing of Rhonda Lee, a meteorologist who responded to criticism of her short Afro on the station’s Facebook site, the news director at KTBS in Shreveport, La., said the firing was over violations of station policy, not her hair. Randy Bain, KTBS news director, pointed to a memo emailed…
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Up Next on 'The Root Live': Michelle Singletary
Watch the video below for a sneak peek at what you’ll see when you tune in to The Root Live, our new weekly livestream series sponsored by Prudential, right here at noon on Monday, Dec. 17. Be sure to bring your questions, and tweet using our hashtag, #TheRootLive.
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Fired From TV for Explaining Black Hair?
A black female meteorologist has been fired from the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, La., she told Journal-isms, because she responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station’s Facebook page. KTBS-TV’s action against Rhonda Lee followed a previous response by Lee to a viewer who questioned whether she should wear her short…
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'The Root Live' Video: Philanthropy, Finance
(The Root) — In the first episode of The Root Live, recorded on Dec. 10, 2012, host Harriette Cole interviewed Tracey Webb — founder of the blog Black Gives Back — and Morgan Stanley’s Michael Braithwaite, who hosts the radio show Money Talks, about the ins and outs of charitable giving. The weekly livestream series,…
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Pulitzer Winner Robin Givhan Laid Off
Fashion Journalist Leaving Newsweek/Daily Beast Robin Givhan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist, is among those laid off from Newsweek and the Daily Beast, according to Joe Coscarelli, writing Friday for the Daily Intel column of New York magazine. ” ‘I plan to work on my book about the 1973 Versailles fashion show and look for…
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Zimbabwe Diamond Scandal Overlooked
N.Y. Times Public Editor Says Paper Misses the Boat Perhaps understandably, a court ruling that a Zimbabwean mining executive must pay U.S. $10 million in defamation damages because of comments published by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks did not get much Western news coverage. Andrew Cranswick, CEO of African Consolidated Resources, allegedly told U.S. diplomats that…
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Jovan Belcher Coverage Praised, Panned
News outlets were praised and criticized for their coverage of the murder-suicide involving Jovan Belcher, the Kansas City Chiefs linebacker who killed his girlfriend and then turned the gun on himself Saturday. Not only did commentators evaluate coverage of the tragedy by CBS, ESPN and the NFL Network as a news event, but they also…
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FCC Opens FM Stations to Community Groups
More Than 6,000 Applications Awaiting Approval “Coincidences in Washington? Try this. Just when the Federal Communications Commission is circulating a draft order to loosen media ownership rules, it voted today to take final steps to create lower-power FM radio, a new class of noncommercial radio stations aimed at increasing diversity on the radio airwaves,” Katy…
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Ebony's NeNe Leakes Cover Stirs Backlash
“The Real Housewives of Atlanta firebrand NeNe Leakes graces the current cover of Ebony — bathing in what appears to be a tub of diamonds — and people aren’t happy about it, Karu F. Daniels wrote Tuesday for the Daily Beast. “. . . ‘Those who take issue with reality television’s role in pop culture…
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NBC News to Pay Its College Interns
Move, Planned for Spring, Expected to Boost Diversity NBC News is planning to pay its interns starting in the spring of 2013, according to a well-placed source at the network, addressing a long-held contention that requiring interns to work only for the experience or for college credit amounts to favoring students with well-to-do parents. The…