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Audie Cornish Replaces Michele Norris on NPR
Year’s Posting Keeps Diversity Among Drive-Time Co-Hosts Audie Cornish, who began hosting NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday” just two months ago, will replace Michele Norris as co-host of “All Things Considered” while Norris takes a one-year leave from her hosting role, NPR announced on Wednesday. The move keeps an African American woman in the co-host slot.…
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Who Am I? What's Race Got to Do With It?
Richard Prince’s Book Notes: Journalists Explore Identity Identity issues dominate this continuation of our fall reading list of nonfiction books by journalists of color. (The first entries were listed Oct. 12.) Gary Younge, black British writer for the Guardian who covers the United States, points out that we all have identities we aren’t always aware…
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Oakland Tribune Name to Live On
“The Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times and several other East Bay newspapers will retain their own mastheads, and the Tribune will open two new community media laboratories in Oakland, executives of the papers’ parent company announced Thursday,” George Avalos reported for the Tribune. Martin G. Reynolds, editor of the Tribune, told Journal-isms on Friday that…
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Survey Links 'Occupy' Coverage and Support
60 Percent of Those Who Follow News of Protests Favor Them The news media were initially accused of ignoring the Occupy Wall Street protests that have since spread across the country, and a new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Washington Post finds a link between coverage…
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Michele Norris Taking Break as NPR Co-Host
Husband Takes Top Job With Obama Re-Election Campaign Michele Norris, co-host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” is taking a leave from the hosting job until after the 2012 elections because her husband, Broderick Johnson, has “has just accepted a senior advisor position with the Obama Campaign,” Norris told NPR staff members on Monday. “I will…
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'Obamacare' Slur Turned on Its Head
“I Do Care, That’s Right. . . . Why Don’t You Care?” For more than a year, Republicans have taken to calling President Obama’s health care reform legislation “Obamacare” in an effort to disparage it. No Republican presidential candidates debate is complete without numerous uses of the term, and like “death tax” for “estate tax”…
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Many in Africa Relieved by Qaddafi's Demise
Some Reports Keep Focus on Plight of Black Libyans Many African journalists reacted with relief Thursday at the killing of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, according to early reports. Some were focusing on the plight of black and dark-skinned Libyans who had been harassed and tortured by the victorious rebels because they had been or…
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Melody Barnes on Leaving White House
Oct. 21, Washington, D.C. — Yesterday, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes announced that she would be stepping down at the end of the year. During an “Open for Questions” Q&A session moderated by The Root at the White House, our Washington reporter, Cynthia Gordy, asked Barnes to weigh in on the legacy…
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VIDEO: White House 'Open for Questions' Q&A
The White House was “Open for Questions” Thursday, Oct. 20, when senior White House officials Valerie Jarrett and Melody Barnes sat down with The Root’s Cynthia Gordy to answer questions from audience members and our Twitter followers and Facebook fans about the American Jobs Act and what the president is doing to combat poverty. Find…
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There Is Diversity at Occupy Wall Street
Filmmaker Obatala Mawusi said that the days he spent documenting the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City were “eye-opening.” In particular, the diversity he saw among the protesters belied the images of the movement in mainstream media. In early October 2011, Mawusi spoke to some of the black participants about why the Occupy…