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Deal Could Almost Double Number of Black-Owned Television Stations
Nexstar Offers to Sell 3 Fox Outlets to Entreprener Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., said Friday that it had agreed to sell three television stations to black media entrepreneur Pluria Marshall Jr. in a deal that, if approved, would nearly double the tiny number of full-powered African American-owned commercial television stations. The deal would require a…
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Nextstar Deal Could Almost Double Number of Black-Owned Television Stations
Nexstar Offers to Sell 3 Fox Outlets to Entrepreneur Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., said Friday that it had agreed to sell three television stations to black media entrepreneur Pluria Marshall Jr. in a deal that, if approved, would nearly double the tiny number of full-powered African American-owned commercial television stations. The deal would require a…
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The Bravest Girl You’ll Ever Meet
“The Bravest Girl You’ll Ever Meet” Story Tells of Polio Victim Left for 10 Days in Forest An Associated Press story about “The bravest girl you’ll ever meet,” in the words of a tweet Monday from the reporter, is winning kudos for its emotional power and its journalism. The story tells of a 10-year-old girl…
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Colorful Publisher Raymond Boone Dies at 76
Richmond, Va., Journalist Insisted on High Standards Raymond H. Boone Sr., the colorful, principled and feisty founder, editor and publisher of the weekly Richmond (Va.) Free Press, died Tuesday at his Richmond home after battling pancreatic cancer, his wife, Jean Boone, told Journal-isms. He was 76. Boone was on the job until nearly the end,…
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NY Times Editor Acknowledges Debt to Black Journalists
“I Identify with People Who Don’t Have Much Power” Dean Baquet, the first African American top editor at the New York Times, does not talk much publicly about race, but he says that he owes his job to the black journalists who came before him and that his own background makes him “want to make…
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Donald Sterling Sues NBA for Over $1,000,000,000
The high stakes drama surrounding the life Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling took a new turn Friday after he filed suit against the NBA for more than $1 billion, CNN reports. The suit was provided to CNN by Sterling’s lawyer, the report says. It comes in the aftermath of his racist tirade against blacks…
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That Time Maya Angelou Worked as a Journalist in Egypt
In 1960, Renaissance Woman Landed Editor’s Job in Egypt Maya Angelou, the Renaissance woman who assumed roles ranging from poet to calypso singer, for a brief time was also a journalist. Angelou, who died at 86 Wednesday at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C., had her baptism of fire in journalism in 1960. As Angelou explained…
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Charlie Sheen Calls Rihanna a Village Idiot on Twitter After Restaurant Snub
You’d think a celebrity like Charlie Sheen, who’s always under the watchful eye of the paparazzi, would know how it feels to want to eat in peace at a restaurant. But it seems as though Sheen deems himself special enough to interrupt another celebrity while he or she is dining out. Sheen was out on…
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A Sex-Trafficking Survivor’s Perspective on the Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls
I was 18 years old when I first felt powerless. I stood, frozen, as a gun was pointed at my head. I was demeaned and called unprintable names. The victim of abuse and sex trafficking, I was repeatedly violated and tortured and then blamed for it all. On April 15 that powerless feeling returned. That was the…
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NY Times Publisher Strikes Back Against Claims About Ousted Editor
Baquet Calls Glenn Greenwald Criticism “Idiotic” Update: Ravi Somaiya, New York Times: Times Publisher Denies Gender Figured in Top Editor’s Dismissal (May 17) Update: Howard Kurtz, Fox News: Sulzberger, under siege, rips Jill Abramson for poor management (May 17) “Gossip overshadowed the history-making moment for Dean Baquet. He became the first African-American to head the…