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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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Meryl Streep Inspires Donations for Feisty, Free Press
The Committee to Protect Journalists has received more than 1,200 donations totaling more than $200,000 after Meryl Streep called on the “famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press” to support the press-freedom group during Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards. Courtney Radsch, advocacy director at CPJ, provided Journal-isms with that figure shortly after noon on Tuesday. “We’re going…
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Sinclair Group Ousting Longtime TV Anchor Maureen Bunyan
Maureen Bunyan, a 46-year veteran of television news who is a co-founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and the International Women’s Media Foundation, is being forced out at Washington station WJLA-TV, an ABC affiliate that Sinclair Broadcasting Group acquired in 2013. Bunyan is a 6 p.m. anchor. The move by Sinclair, disclosed by…
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A Wealth of Questions Remain in Facebook ‘Hate Crime’ Torture
“In Chicago, at least four young black men and women did something truly awful,” Shaun King wrote Thursday for the Daily News in New York. “On a damn Facebook Live video made public Wednesday, they allegedly kidnapped a mentally challenged white man, beat him, humiliated him, cut his hair, and yelled ‘f—k Donald Trump’ and…
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NABJ Joins Meeting With Trump Transition Team
The National Association of Black Journalists and the National Newspaper Publishers Association, representing the black press, joined other African American organizations Wednesday in providing a “listening session” for the Donald Trump transition team. The off-the-record session was led by Omarosa Manigault, the former contestant on “The Apprentice” newly named by the president-elect to work on…
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Chicago Police Department Holds Back as Bloodshed Rises: Report
“Chicago ends 2016 with more than 700 murders and over 4,000 people shot — the worst bloodshed the city has seen in 18 years,” CBS News reported Thursday in promoting a report scheduled for Sunday’s “60 Minutes.” “Data obtained by 60 Minutes shows that while gun violence spiked, police activity dropped in all 22 of…
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The Top 10 Media Diversity Stories of 2016
At the end of 2016, the Washington Post announced it was bucking a trend: It was adding dozens of journalists. Yet journalists of color are all but missing from the top ranks of the Post newsroom. In another metro area with substantial numbers of people of color, Allan Lengel was reporting for Deadline Detroit, “The…
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Bill O’Reilly Casts Himself as the Spokesman for Whites
“Fox News host Bill O’Reilly went on a white supremacism-laden rant Tuesday night, saying that the effort to abolish the Electoral College is an attempt by ‘the left’ to take away power from the ‘white establishment,‘ ” Emily C. Singer reported Wednesday for aol.com. “O’Reilly went on to denounce Democrats for being ‘reliant on the…
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Richard Prince’s Book Notes, Part 2: More Holiday Offerings
Below, our latest list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them—part two of two. Part one was published on Monday. Jonathan Abrams, an accomplished writer for the Bleacher Report who has worked for ESPN’s late Grantland site, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, has “Boys…
