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Fox News Pundit Links Al Jazeera Reporters, Terrorism Two veteran journalists have come to the defense of Randall Pinkston, another longtime black journalist, after Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly called out Pinkston, Soledad O’Brien, Joie Chen and John Seigenthaler as workers for Al Jazeera, which O’Reilly called a “propaganda outfit” that supports terrorism. (video) Les…

Pop Culture Still an Attraction for Black Web Visitors BET.com, MadameNoire.com and TheRoot.com were big winners among African American-oriented websites in 2014, according to figures for unique visitors provided to Journal-isms by the comScore, Inc. research company. For the first time, the figures include both desktop and mobile data. Previous figures measured desktop use only.…

News Outlets Split on Best Ways to Cover the Topic With the New York Times moving Tanzina Vega, the paper’s sole reporter on a national race and ethnicity beat, to cover the Bronx courthouse, a larger question is at play, Chris Ip wrote Wednesday for Columbia Journalism Review. “What happens to her national race and…

Yale U. Concedes Drawing of Handgun Was Questionable “As a noted memoirist and New York Times columnist who writes often about race, Charles Blow has spoken about the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, deaths that sparked a national debate over how police treat African-American men,” Ashley Fantz reported Monday for CNN. “On…

“Even After I Retired, This Case Still Bothered Me” “After 20 years I was finally able to get a wrongfully convicted man named Tyrone Hood out of prison,” Renee Ferguson, who retired as an investigative reporter for Chicago’s NBC-owned WMAQ-TV in 2008, messaged Journal-isms on Friday. “I figured out that he was innocent during my…

Governor “Might Be Trying to Scrub Some of the Brown Off” MSNBC has banned from its airwaves a Muslim human rights lawyer and commentator who said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, an Indian American, “might be trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin” by claiming that there are “no-go zones” for non-Muslims in…

Filmgoers Should Have a Chance to See the Documentary Judy Richardson was a worker for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia from 1963 to 1966, the time depicted in the movie “Selma.” She began a career in filmmaking as associate producer of “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985,”…

500 Urged to Shine a Light, Like Michel du Cille His photojournalist wife wanted friends and colleagues to know that “If he were here today, he’d be reminding us of the real story: 8,429 lives lost to Ebola and counting. “He’d be saying, ‘Remember the real story. Remember the thousands of people in Liberia, Sierra…

VH1 Says “No Mas” on “Sorority Sisters” Members of black Greek organizations who were offended by “Sorority Sisters,” a VH1 reality show that they said degraded them, are nearing a victory. “VH1 has finally said no mas to its detractors: the remaining three episodes of Atlanta-based ‘Sorority Sisters’ are being burned off three in a…

Paris Overshadows Boko Haram’s Biggest Massacre “France spent the weekend coming to terms with last week’s terror attacks in Paris that left 17 dead. The country mourned, and global leaders joined an estimated 3.7 million people on its streets to march in a show of unity,” Maeve Shearlaw reported Monday for Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “In…