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NABJ Criticism Prompts CNN to ‘Reconsider’ Sponsorship
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…
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CNN’s Restructuring Results in Several Layoffs for Journalists of Color
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…
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Ferguson Cops Are Accused of Using the ‘Catch and Release’ Tactic to Slow Down Journalists
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…
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Parents Claim No Choice, No Voice, in Children’s Education
The key to success in any industry is innovation. That is at the heart of the reform movement that has overtaken public education over the last few years and shuttered public schools that were labeled failing or underresourced. Many of the reformers likely had the children’s best interests in mind, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg,…
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Watch: NYPD Officer Allegedly Knocks Out Cigarette-Smoking Teen
A Brooklyn teenager was allegedly knocked out by a New York City police officer for smoking a cigarette, the Brooklyn Paper reports. Video footage captured on a cellphone shows the plainclothes officer punching Marcel Hammer, even as he lay on the ground in a gutter trying to protect his face, saying, “It’s just a…
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I'm Someone's Husband? Me? Really?
(Damon’s latest at EBONY on the word “husband” and how he doesn’t quite feel like one — or at least the movie version of one — yet) When I think of a husband, I think of a character Dennis Haysbert or Danny Glover or some other deep-voiced, barred chested man would play in a family…
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St. Louis Cardinals Fans Tell Michael Brown Protesters to ‘Get a Job!’
A group of Michael Brown protesters who took their rally outside a St. Louis stadium were met by angry Cardinals fans shouting, “Get a job” and “Let’s go, Darren,” in support of the Ferguson, Mo., police officer, Darren Wilson, who killed the unarmed teen, according to the New York Daily News. The racial confrontation was…
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1 Year After the GOP’s Government Shutdown, It’s Time for America to Change Course
One year ago today, the federal government came to a dead halt—shut down by the obstructionism of Republicans in Congress. For more than two weeks, national parks closed, critical medical research stopped and our economy lost billions of dollars. American families and small businesses were unable to acquire federal loans and mortgages. Contracts between small…
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Tech- and Gadget-Savvy Journo Group Sees Increased Diversity at Convention
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…
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The Zimmerman Family: Everything You Didn’t Want to Know
The Zimmermans really know how to party on another person’s tab. According to a profile in the October issue of GQ magazine, George Zimmerman and his brother, Robert Jr.—who told the magazine that before George’s fatal 2012 shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, “he was the family f—kup”—racked up $3,600 in comped fees in February at…