Media

At the end of 2016, the Washington Post announced it was bucking a trend: It was adding dozens of journalists. Yet journalists of color are all but missing from the top ranks of the Post newsroom. In another metro area with substantial numbers of people of color, Allan Lengel was reporting for Deadline Detroit, “The…

“Fox News host Bill O’Reilly went on a white supremacism-laden rant Tuesday night, saying that the effort to abolish the Electoral College is an attempt by ‘the left’ to take away power from the ‘white establishment,‘ ” Emily C. Singer reported Wednesday for aol.com. “O’Reilly went on to denounce Democrats for being ‘reliant on the…

Below, our latest list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them—part two of two. Part one was published on Monday. Jonathan Abrams, an accomplished writer for the Bleacher Report who has worked for ESPN’s late Grantland site, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, has “Boys…

“On Sunday, the New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote a column that cut deep to the bone about the lack of racial and ethnic diversity and the ‘newsroom’s blinding whiteness,‘ ” Tanzina Vega wrote Monday for CNN Money. Nicholas Casey, a New York Times correspondent in Venezuela, appears in a Times house ad.…

Our latest list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them—part one of two—includes: a forthcoming memoir by the late Coretta Scott King that is 17 years in the making; the frustrating history of African Americans in the newspaper comics; the story of an escapee from war-torn Biafra; an…

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the Atlantic magazine writer, has managed a feat apparently accomplished by no other black journalist. He was granted 4½ hours on the record with President Obama, access he turned into a 17,000-word cover story for the January/February issue of the Atlantic. “Talked three times in person. Total of about 4.5 hours. No idea…

Brian Stelter, television critic for CNN Money, isn’t the only journalist sounding an alarm. “A question I asked on Sunday’s ‘Reliable Sources:’ he wrote in his email newsletter Sunday. “Is this a national emergency? And are journalists afraid to say so because they’re afraid they’ll sound partisan?” “Consider: A U.S. intelligence community conclusion that Russia…

“Justice has never been blind when it comes to race in Florida,” Josh Salman, Emily Le Coz and Elizabeth Johnson reported this week for the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune in a series, “Bias on the Bench.” “Blacks were first at the mercy of slave masters. Then came Jim Crow segregation and the Ku Klux Klan. “Now,…

“A new court filing alleges that Turner employees faced racial discrimination that held them back in their careers and led to at least one former assistant being fired,” Ronn Blitzer reported Wednesday for lawnewz.com. “Roughly two dozen current and former employees of CNN and TBS (both owned by Turner) claim that there is a systematic…

“The racism can be felt from the moment black inmates enter New York’s upstate prisons,” Michael Schwirtz, Michael Winerip and Robert Gebeloff reported Saturday for the New York Times. “They describe being called porch monkeys, spear chuckers and worse. There are cases of guards ripping out dreadlocks. One inmate, John Richard, reported that he was…