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Is the New Black Panther Party Case Getting Fair Coverage?
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…
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Why the Media Aren't Giving Obama Credit
Even Journalists Raise Questions After Latest Victory “I’ve been scratching my head over this for the past year: Does President Obama get credit for the things he does right?” media writer Howard Kurtz wrote for the Washington Post on Friday. “We all know about the things he does wrong, because the media have made that…
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Johnson Publishing President Steps Down
Six weeks after the arrival of former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers, and two weeks after the naming of a new editor-in-chief for Ebony, Johnson Publishing Co. Monday announced the resignation of Anne Sempowski Ward, its president and chief operating officer. Ward was on maternity leave. Rogers, a longtime friend of Chairman and CEO…
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What LeBron's Big Move Means to Journalism
The decision by LeBron James to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat made for television with through-the-roof ratings, the Nielsen Co. announced, even if journalists panned as over-the-top the ESPN production during which James made the announcement. The NBA superstar’s move had a less-noticed side benefit: On James’ new home turf, he’ll be…
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LeBron Announcement Deal Raises Ethics Questions
“Did ESPN just get ‘mediajacked’?” Brian Steinberg asked Wednesday on AdAge.com. “Normally, an event as important and interesting as basketball wunderkind LeBron James announcing what team he has chosen to play for would be a national, even global, event — with coverage supplied by hundreds of different media outlets. “Come Thursday, in prime time no…
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What's Happening In Media Diversity This Week?
End of Strained Relationship Means “Sky’s the Limit” Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, who finally returned to the Philadelphia Inquirer in February after a two-year feud with his employer of 15 years, left the paper by mutual agreement on Tuesday. “I’m as happy as I’ve been for a long time,” Smith told Journal-isms on Wednesday.…
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Young, Fabulous and Female in NYC
Did you miss The Root’s Young, Female and Fabulous event Wednesday evening in New York City? More than 200 women (and a few men) came out to the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater in Manhattan to network over cocktails and enjoy a panel discussion about the joys and challenges of being a success-minded black woman. Moderated…
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NABJ Blasts CNN's Choice of Spitzer
Two days after CNN hired disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer to co-host a new prime-time program, the National Association of Black Journalists Friday blasted the cable news networks for their failure to place African American hosts in such prime-time slots. “The company missed another opportunity to place a person of color in prime…
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Watch Your New Growth: Hair Restrictions in the Military
It was near the end of the “Blogging While Brown” conference on Saturday when a woman in the Air Force stepped to the microphone to tell the group that she blogged about natural hair and that there were “so many restrictions” on it in the military. If you have “relaxed” hair, she said, a new rule…
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Essence Says Its Ad Revenues Are on the Rebound
“Consumer magazine publishers have desperately been trying to scratch a profit from any amount of advertising dollars they can get their hands on, especially since the economic recession last year. “One group that was hit particularly hard in the marketing pullback was African-American magazines,” Jason Fell wrote Thursday for Folio. According to the Publishers Information…