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“More than 2,500 foreign press are expected to visit South Africa to cover the memorial services and funeral this week of the man described as ‘the father of the nation‘,” according to South Africa’s Channel 24. The memorial service began Tuesday at 4 a.m. EST (11 a.m. Johannesburg time) and was scheduled to be repeated…

Nelson Mandela had a way with journalists. Charlayne Hunter-Gault became part of the coverage of Mandela’s death Thursday as an interview subject and a news analyst. Her early visits to apartheid-era South Africa left her with a bond of familiarity, she told Al Sharpton on his MSNBC “PoliticsNation” show shortly after the news that Mandela had…

The New York Post has withstood lawsuits by two black journalists who charged that they faced a hostile work environment at the newspaper. It has also “resolved” a related case filed by Sandra Guzman, a black Latina who said she was harassed and fired after she spoke out against the infamous 2009 Post cartoon that…

“The woman is defenseless, strolling down the street with a pocketbook over her shoulder,” Jesse Singal wrote last week for Columbia Journalism Review. “She has no idea that she’s about to be brutally attacked. The man, who is black, runs up behind her, rears his right arm back and to the side, and strikes her viciously in…

Tenn. Paper Catches Heat for Front Page Array of Mug Shots 
”On Nov. 5, the Times Free Press published a front-page story about the arrests of 32 men charged with gun and drug crimes after a four-year local and federal investigation. Chattanooga Police Chief Bobby Dodd called the suspects the ‘worst of the worst’ in…

Wise”>” ‘You Don’t Get It; You’re White’ . . . Doesn’t Work for Me” White writers are coming forward to say they cannot sit on the sidelines in the debate over who can use the “N-Word,” if anyone. The latest is Mike Wise, Washington Post sports columnist, who responded in Friday’s printed Post, “I deserve…

CNN Pumps Up Don Lemon Some Debate Whether Commentaries Are Appropriate CNN weekend anchor Don Lemon is getting a temporary prime-time slot on CNN as some journalists debate whether the network’s most visible journalist of color is acting appropriately by simultaneously ramping up his role as a commentator. “It’s going to be amazing. You’re going…

<a href=”http://mije.org/node/8141/#JFK”>Journalists Shared in Determined Hope of the Era Fifty years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, it’s easy for some to dismiss his brief presidency, as conservative commentator Brit Hume did on “Fox News Sunday.” Hume, a senior political analyst for FOX News Channel, said of Kennedy on Sunday, “despite the thinness of the record…

Journalism Fail Media Missed It: Winning Candidate Served Time for Murder “We’ve been hearing the warnings for years now,” Vincent Duffy, chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation, wrote Thursday. “At journalism conferences, in the trades, and amongst ourselves we’ve heard some variation of this: ‘If newsrooms keep cutting reporters, while demanding higher story…

In the end, it did not seem to matter whether Richard Cohen, the Washington Post columnist, was a victim of poor wording and poor editing. His past spoke more loudly. Cohen, 72, has been a columnist at the Post since 1976, more than enough time to have built up a reservoir of comments viewed as…