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AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal news sites, which expects to be “the largest hirer of full-time journalists in the United States this year,” has finished hiring a top news management with little if any racial diversity and declared that “We do not focus on race or ethnicity in the hiring process, but rather finding the best…

Harold Dow, CBS News Correspondent, Dies at 62 “Longtime CBS News correspondent Harold Dow died suddenly this morning, Saturday, Aug. 21, at the age of 62,” CBS News announced on Saturday. [On Sunday night, CBS said Dow’s family said the cause of death was apparently an asthma attack. [“At the time of Harold’s death, he…

James J. Kilpatrick, the conservative commentator known to television viewers as a commentator on the “Point/Counterpoint” segment of “60 Minutes,” or as a panelist on the old “Agronsky and Co.,” died in Washington Sunday at age 89, his family said on Monday. To some African Americans, however, the Virginian’s support of Massive Resistance to school…

African Americans Showed Year’s Highest Growth Rate Over the last year, the broadband-adoption gap between blacks and whites has been cut nearly in half,” according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Broadband is generally defined as high-speed Internet access. “Broadband adoption by African Americans now stands at 56%, up…

Blacks Just 1% of Financed Internet Start-ups So Far in 2010 Before presenting its charts, CB Insights reported, ‘When we ask venture capitalists what gets them excited about the young, emerging and unproven companies in which they invest, we never hear about deals and dollars. Rather the first answer is frequently ‘the team’ or ‘the…

GOP Chairman Was Sure to Be Questioned About Breitbart The advance team for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told the National Association of Black Journalists on Friday that Steele was canceling the panel discussion scheduled later in the day at its convention in San Diego because of food poisoning, NABJ announced. An RNC statement…

“The article was largely buried in most newspapers, if run at all,” columnist Edward Schumacher-Matos wrote Thursday for the Washington Post Writers Group. “So many bodies of unauthorized migrants are being found in the Arizona desert this month, the Associated Press reported, that the Pima County Medical Examiner was stacking them like boxes of fish…

The firing of Agriculture Department staffer Shirley Sherrod — over racial remarks that were taken out of context — raises judgment questions not only about the Obama administration and the NAACP, whose president is a former journalist, but about the news media. “This whole saga confirms, as if it needed confirmation,” veteran journalist Paul Delaney…

It’s not every day that commentators Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune, Juan Williams of Fox News and NPR, Errol Louis of the New York Daily News, Roland Martin of CNN and TV One, and the editorial pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are in agreement. And that such agreement…