diversity in media
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Opioid Mixture Killed Veteran News Anchor Roy Hobbs
Accidental Deaths Grow Among African Americans Cosby Verdict Filtered Through Race, Gender Ala. Paper Acknowledges ‘False Narrative’ on Blacks Joyner Agrees to Drop R. Kelly Music From Show Temple J-School Honored for Equity and Diversity 5,000 Seek 25 Summer Slots at N.Y. Times 100 Campuses Join #SaveStudentNewsrooms Coates, Giago Join Obama, Sotomayor in Academy Nominate…
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Essence Drops Its Editor-in-Chief
Longtime Staffer Patrik Henry Bass Also Out Clyburn to Step Down from FCC after 8 Years Chow Leaving Asian American Journalists Group Short Take Editor-in-Chief Vanessa DeLuca and Editorial Projects Director Patrik Henry Bass of Essence magazine have been let go in a restructuring, sources told Journal-isms on Thursday. DeLuca, who became editor-in-chief in 2013,…
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How the Pulitzer Board Chose Kendrick Lamar
First Hip-Hop Artist Picked Over Classical, Jazz Acts . . . ‘As a Black Woman,’ Figuring Out Dylann Roof” Lisa Wilson on Ladder to Lead Sports Editors Group Getty, Ava DuVernay Team to Aid Visual Journalists Nominate a J-Educator Who Promotes Diversity The most surprising Pulitzer Prize Monday came at the very end: The last…
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Los Angeles Times Union Finds Long-Standing Racial Pay Gap
Newspaper Underpaid Women, People of Color NAACP Sees Blacks’ Future in State, Local Races Responding to Critics, Sinclair Lashes Out at CNN Local TV News Employs More Than Newspapers Shaun King, Activist Journalist, Detained at Customs Exposure to Gun Violence Can Lead to PTSD Jim Avila to Receive Transplant From His Brother How Ruby Bridges…
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April 4, 1968, as Told by Black Reporters
Three Describe the Night of King’s Death 1. White: Editors Had ‘Domino Theory of Rioting’ 2. West: A Need ‘to Put Our Imprint on the Stories’ 3. Caldwell: ‘I Took It to Be a Bomb’ The Athletic Making Little Progress on Diversity NAHJ Reaches 7-Year Membership High Immigrants Found to Drive Crime Down, Not Up…
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In the Realm of Black Journalism, ‘We Are Losing Our Lions’
Les Payne Praised for Linking ‘Fairness,’ Journalism In Givhan Flap, Post Won’t Reimburse BET Heather Vincent Holley, Network Exec, Dies at 58 Tanzina Vega to Host Public Radio’s ‘The Takeaway’ PBS Cites a Dozen Complaints About Smiley Podcast Examines Cold Cases From Civil Rights Era Haitians Plan March Over Missing Journalist Mourners and celebrants at…
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Black Journalists Group Backs Reporter Over Furious BET
Givhan Was Part of Event With Michelle Obama Byron Allen Acquires the Weather Channel One Cop in Fatal Sacramento Shooting Is Black Some Led Readers Astray During Austin Bombings Where Are the Black Photographers? Detroit Anchor Out After Harassment Charges Don Imus Retiring After 50 Years in Radio Fourth Mexican Journalist Killed This Year In…
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For the 3rd Straight Season, Queen Sugar Boasts All-Female Directing Team
The critically acclaimed drama from Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey, Queen Sugar, returns to OWN in May, and once again, DuVernay has assembled an all-female directing team to tell the story of the Bordelon family. The announcement marks the third season in a row that Queen Sugar will tap exclusively female directors to steer the…
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Les Payne, Journalist Who ‘Took No Prisoners,’ Dies at 76
Fourth NABJ President Spent 38 Years at Newsday Lester Holt Drops GOP Registration: NBC Anchor Talks Race in Advance of News Special Les Payne, a thought leader for journalists of all colors in a career that saw him share a Pulitzer Prize, become a co-founder and fourth president of the National Association of Black Journalists…