“NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt has been chosen to moderate the first of four presidential debates, and Elaine Quijano, a CBS News correspondent, will moderate the vice presidential matchup, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Friday. The choices — which also include Martha Raddatz of ABC News, Anderson Cooper of CNN and Chris…

“Donald Trump went to Mexico City without his press corps on Wednesday, leaving media organizations scrambling to get reporters on the ground to cover his joint press conference with the Mexican president,” Dylan Byers reported Wednesday for CNN Money. “And then Trump took just two questions from the press. “Following a toned-down statement in which…

Ajamu Baraka, the African American vice presidential candidate of the Green Party, has declared President Obama an “Uncle Tom,” and the party’s presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein told the Washington Post editorial board that she would not ask him to apologize. Her explanation of why she will not makes her view of African Americans no…

By Marlon A. Walker The Rev. Al Sharpton urged mourners paying tribute to George E. Curry Saturday to keep alive Curry’s dream of reviving online his beloved Emerge magazine and said he would write a check to help. “If ever we need a strong, independent, ethical black press, we need it now,” Sharpton said. The…

George E. Curry will be memorialized this weekend by the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton at services in his native Tuscaloosa, Ala., his fiancee, Ann Ragland, told Journal-isms on Tuesday. The funeral for the champion of the black press is scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. at Weeping Mary Baptist Church, 2701 20th St.,…

George E. Curry, a veteran journalist who championed the black press and was reviving online his beloved Emerge magazine, died Saturday at 69, according to a message from his sister’s Facebook account. “It is with deep regret to inform everyone that my brother, George passed away earlier today,” said the message, from the account of…

“Swimmer Ryan Lochte was dubbed ‘The Ugly American’ on Friday as U.S. media turned on the once beloved Olympic champion, saying his made-up tale of being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro played into the worst stereotypes of Americans abroad,” Jill Serjeant reported Friday for Reuters. But not all in the news media were…

“Donald Trump’s campaign is under new management — and his white nationalist fanboys love it,” Betsy Woodruff and Gideon Resnick wrote Wednesday for the Daily Beast. “The campaign’s new chief executive, Stephen Bannon, joins from Breitbart News — where he helped mainstream the ideas of white nationalists and resuscitate the reputations of anti-immigrant fear-mongers. “White…

The 19-year-old son of a Chicago police officer returning home for a visit from St. John’s University in New York where he was majoring in journalism was shot and killed Sunday morning, Chicago and New York news organizations reported. “The shooting took place in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side just after midnight, according…

Bill Clinton, acting as a surrogate for his wife’s presidential campaign, told Asian American journalists and voter activists Friday, “You want a president like Hillary Clinton who sees you as part and parcel of the quilt of diversity . . . We should be expanding the definition of ‘us’ and shrinking the definition of ‘them,’…