diversity in media
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‘Is Truth Dead’ Under Trump?
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus report on their meeting Wednesday with President Trump. They answered his question, “What do you have to lose?” (NBC News) “Donald Trump is not on the cover of Time this week, and that must gall him,” Will Oremus wrote Thursday for Slate. “The president is the subject of the…
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Reporting by Women Declining at Networks
“A Women’s Media Center report examining who provides coverage for 20 top news outlets shows that female journalists continue to report less of the news than do male journalists — with the disparity especially glaring in television,” the center reported Wednesday. “The WMC’s ‘Divided 2017′ study finds that at ABC, CBS, and NBC combined, men…
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What Journalist Jimmy Breslin Taught Us, or Didn’t, About Diversity
Jimmy Breslin, who died Sunday at 88, was described by the Associated Press as “the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker.” Others hailed his shoe-leather reporting from what seems like another era, and some used the adjective “white” before “working class”…
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Donna Brazile Flatly Denies Giving Questions to Hillary Clinton
Donna Brazile, the veteran Democratic political strategist who parted ways with CNN last year amid WikiLeaks revelations appearing to show that she provided the Hillary Clinton campaign with questions she would be asked in a televised CNN town hall, flatly denied Saturday that she had done so. “At no time did I receive or participate…
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Iowa Papers Want ‘Racist’ Congressman Out
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, must go, two of his home-state newspapers say. King tweeted over the weekend, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies” and predicted Monday that blacks and Hispanics “will be fighting each other” before overtaking whites in the U.S. population. King’s “rampant racism is an opportunity for Iowa Republicans and…
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Editorial Boards Welcome ‘a Conversation About Our Nonwhite History’
“For too long, the history of Dallas’ white majority has overpowered the stories of others who helped build the city’s culture,” the Dallas Morning News editorial board declared last week, launching a project inviting readers “to help tell the story of communities often overlooked here.” “We’ve had more than a dozen thoughtful submissions in the…
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Fox News Latino Founder Left Amid Scandal
The website Fox News Latino abruptly stopped posting original content in December without explanation. In a story Wednesday in the New York Times, Emily Steel provided one possible reason: Fox News Latino founder Francisco Cortés, vice president of Fox News for the website, was terminated. A former Fox News contributor reported that Cortés sexually assaulted…
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‘Women Have Skidded Down the Power Structure’ at the New York Times
“The Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach, acclaimed for his study of inkblots, might have enjoyed doing some field work at the most recent newsroom-wide meeting of The New York Times,” Liz Spayd, public editor at the Times, wrote on Saturday for its SundayReview section. “Many in the audience saw before them top editors representing a bold…
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For Many, Hollywood Gets Closer to the Truth
“At last,” Derrick Clifton wrote Monday for NBCBLK. “When Viola Davis finally heard her name announced as an Academy Award winner, after three nominations, her mouth didn’t drop in shock, nor did the splendor of the moment seem to overwhelm her. “Davis was ready — to proudly claim the golden reward she’d earned and publicly…
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Black Reporter Says Omarosa Bullied Her
“Conflict and controversy seem to follow Omarosa Manigault, who stirred up plenty of both as a reality-TV star and a longtime associate of President Trump,” Paul Farhi reported Monday for the Washington Post. “Manigault, who is now a communications official in the Trump administration, got into a heated argument with a White House reporter just…