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Journalists Say Network Retaliates After Criticism Two days after the National Association of Black Journalists issued a statement saying it “is concerned about the atmosphere for African Americans at CNN,” a representative of the network told NABJ President Bob Butler that the network was withdrawing its support of the association’s 2015 convention, Butler said in…

Velez-Mitchell, Darius Walker Hit in Ongoing Staff Cuts “Even as Time Warner executives touted it as ‘the global gold standard in news organizations’ at its investor meeting Wednesday, CNN continued to restructure and lay off staff to meet its ‘Turner 2020’ budget targets, Alex Weprin reported Wednesday for capitalnewyork.com “Among the changes: ‘Crossfire’ has officially…

Photographers Group Fights “Catch and Release” Tactic In a richly illustrated edition of News Photographer magazine, a publication of the National Press Photographers Association, reporter Sherry Ricchiardi outlines police bullying of journalists in Ferguson, Mo., including a tactic NPPA’s lawyer describes as “catch and release.” “The police don’t care about making charges that stick. They…

Don’t Blame Houston Listeners, Some Tell Radio One Beyoncé fans might be ecstatic over Radio One’s decision to drop its boldly formatted but low-rated all-news Houston radio station, but others are challenging the black-controlled network’s assertion that Houstonians just weren’t ready for so much journalism. For the moment, at least, the station is all Beyoncé all…

CNN’s Racial “Atmosphere” Worries NABJ Fired Black Producer Files $5 Million Lawsuit A longtime CNN employee’s $5 million wrongful-termination and discrimination lawsuit, filed Monday, is the latest reason that the National Association of Black Journalists “is concerned about the atmosphere for African Americans at CNN,” the association said in a statement Wednesday. Erik Pedersen reported…

Magazine Trashed Book on Forced Free Labor, U.S. Economy On Sept. 4, the British magazine the Economist published a rare apology and disowned a book review that criticized a new perspective on slavery that, the reviewer said, gave too much credence to the words of black slaves and not enough to whites. It was only…

President Underscores His Animus on Twitter “With the ongoing ISIS and Ebola crisis, President Obama surely has a lot on his mind,” Jordan Chariton wrote Thursday for TVNewser. “And yesterday, apparently Fox News was too. “In two separate speeches, the president cited the network during stump speeches. ” ‘There’s a reason, fewer Republicans, you hear…

Honored by N.Y. Black Journalists, Editor Urges Outreach Dean Baquet, the first African American top editor of the New York Times, told black journalists Tuesday that his biggest concern, “besides the diversity of our staff, is the diversity of our audience.” He said, “I’m worried that the American press is on its way to becoming…

Online News Assn. Conference Makes Strides in Diversity When the Online News Association ended its three-day convention in Chicago on Saturday, 35 percent of the presenters had been people of color, and half were women, according to its organizers. That’s the most diversity the ONA — founded in 1999 and the newest kid on the…

Alessandra Stanley Tried “to Make a Profound Point” New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet made his first public comments on the “Angry Black Woman” story, telling Public Editor Margaret Sullivan in a blog item Wednesday that writer Alessandra Stanley “was trying to make a profound point” about breaking down stereotypes of black women, but…