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Marie Nelson Named VP of News, Public Affairs Marie Nelson, a broadcast executive who was founding executive producer of NPR’s “Tell Me More,” worked at ABC-TV’s “Nightline” and oversaw projects at Black Entertainment Television, was named vice president, news and public affairs Friday at PBS, the network of “PBS NewsHour,” Ken Burns documentaries and the investigative…

GOP Base Still a Shrinking Portion of Electorate “Democrats got hammered in Tuesday’s election. The conventional wisdom is that this was a referendum on President Obama and a repudiation of his policies,” William H. Frye, a demographer and senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, wrote Wednesday for salon.com. “Yet, to…

“Vast Gulf” in Finances Between Voters, Nonvoters “With just four days before the midterm elections, the spotlight understandably is focused on the estimated 40% of voting age adults who are expected to show up at the polls next Tuesday,” the Pew Research Center reported on Friday. “There has been less attention on the much larger…

Dominicans Embrace Americans After Equipment Stolen “There are few circumstances in which good journalists want to become a story rather than cover one, but through no fault of their own two Post-Dispatch staffers became the center of attention while reporting on developments this week in a foreign country,” Dan Caesar reported Friday for the St.…

Attorney General Repeats, “No Reporter’s Going to Jail” Before Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart ended his interview with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday, he asked one final question: “What’s the one decision you made that you wish you could do over again?,” Matt Wilstein reported for Mediaite. “Without much…

Publisher Says She’ll Focus on Online Edition Sister2Sister, a women’s magazine that focuses on black Hollywood, has filed for bankruptcy protection and put the print edition on hiatus so it can focus on its website, publisher Jamie Foster Brown told Journal-isms. Brown, a onetime secretary to Black Entertainment Television co-founder Robert Johnson whose website describes…

“People’s Lawyer” Accused of Bilking Lenders of $10 Million “A federal jury convicted former national radio host Warren Ballentine on Friday of participating in Chicago-area mortgage fraud schemes that bilked lenders out of nearly $10 million,” Jason Meisner reported for the Chicago Tribune. “The jury deliberated about an hour before finding Warren Ballentine guilty on…

Debate Questioners Overwhelmingly White Men “The journalists questioning candidates in this fall’s biggest campaign debates are overwhelmingly white men, according to an msnbc analysis of the nation’s most contested Senate and gubernatorial races,” Krystal Ball and Anne L. Thompson reported Wednesday for MSNBC.com. “In the closest [Senate] races, 7 out of 10 of debate moderators and panelists were men,…

Fabled Editor, Dead at 93, Acknowledged His Ignorance After Benjamin C. Bradlee entered hospice care in mid-September, this columnist asked a few female reporters and black journalists who worked under Bradlee in the Washington Post of the 1970s to assess him, anticipating the inevitable. Most declined. It is clear, however, that while the Bradlee era…

Universities of Ga., South Fla. Cancel Invitations to Africans “Officials at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg uninvited 14 journalists from African countries to visit for three weeks on Oct. 31 for the annual Edward R. Murrow Visiting Journalists program. The program is organized by the US Department of State for foreign journalists to…