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The contraction of the news industry and the recent recession hit black and Latino journalists harder than whites, the American Society of News Editors has established, and a new study suggests that those journalists might have been less financially equipped to withstand the layoffs than their white counterparts. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ “Hard Choices: Navigating…

The National Association of Black Journalists has named Roland Martin its Journalist of the Year for 2013, the organization announced Wednesday, lining up behind the journalist and commentator after CNN refused to renew Martin’s contract. In another development, Soledad O’Brien, another journalist of color whose role at CNN is being diminished, included Martin on her…

The day before Roland Martin disclosed that his contract as a CNN commentator wasn’t being renewed, CNN President Jeff Zucker excitedly proclaimed his new hire Jake Tapper “the face of the new CNN.” “I can tell you from the position that I was in, the prospect of Jake Tapper being the face of the new…

Freelance journalist Nate Thayer prompted a debate last week when he publicly declined an opportunity to write for the Atlantic magazine for free. But in the arguments over the benefits of getting paid only with exposure, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote on Wednesday, one element has been missing: race. “Two things helped me break through,” Coates wrote…