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When I asked a group of college journalism students to name
African-American journalism pioneers, names such as Ed Bradley, Bryant
Gumbel and Oprah Winfrey came quickly. 
I long for the day when I can pick my local newspaper without being reminded that the news industry has been savaged these past few years.
We live in a world of contracting time. That much is obvious just by
looking at the unending stream of information bombarding us every day.
There's not enough time to absorb it all. Some say that's the real
reason newspapers aren't doing well: people simply don't have time to
read them.
In the end, it may be the cell phone that makes the difference in Oscar Grant's death. Without it, it's likely that 22-year old father would have been just
another anonymous black man who ended up dead after a run in with law
enforcement.
Don’t make the mistake my job-seeking friend did. She
isn’t on LinkedIn yet because she’s waiting to be invited.
I surprised myself when I told a friend that I don’t call myself a journalist. I mean, it’s in our blood, isn’t it? With 25 years in newspapers, it is in mine. It’s been a year since I was laid off from the San Jose Mercury News, where I had, by turns, been an editor, reporter and metro columnist for 11 years. Yet I sign my e-mail correspondence “Writer, Researcher, Consultant.” That’s what I do nowadays.
The American Society of Newspaper Editors released its annual census of newsroom diversity last week. The survey recorded the steepest one-year decline in newspapers since it began 30 years ago. According to ASNE 5,900 newsroom jobs were lost last year, as the number of journalists declined by 11.3 percent. The percentage of minorities in newsrooms slipped by .11 percent. The Maynard Institute asked some industry leaders to comment on the results. We'll run their remarks over the next several days, please add your thoughts in the comment section at the end.
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Twelve fellowships to attend the Maynard Institute’s Multimedia Editing Program are available to journalists from small and medium size publications. The fellowships are made possible by a three-year grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The Multimedia Editing Program runs from June 1 - July 10 at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. The program will equip participants to help their news organizations strengthen the print product and build a robust online presence.
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Twelve fellowships to attend the Maynard Institute’s Multimedia Editing Program are available to journalists from small and medium size publications. The fellowships are made possible by a three-year grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. The Multimedia Editing Program runs from June 1 - July 10 at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. The program will equip participants to help their news organizations strengthen the print product and build a robust online presence.
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Much of today's media coverage breaks the country into black and white, North and South, male and female. Doing so fails to capture the complexity of American life that journalists need to portray.
Based on the late Robert C. Maynard's belief that the five fault lines of race, class, gender, generation and geography are the most enduring forces shaping lives, experiences and social tensions in this country, the Maynard Institute's Fault Lines framework helps journalists build a more diverse source list, have more voices in stories and determine which fault lines are at work in complex issues.
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Based on the late Robert C. Maynard's belief that the five fault lines of race, class, gender, generation and geography are the most enduring forces shaping lives, experiences and social tensions in this country, the Maynard Institute's Fault Lines framework helps journalists build a more diverse source list, have more voices in stories and determine which fault lines are at work in complex issues.
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| Black History Project Stories of the African American journalists who broke into media during the '60s and '70s. |
Caldwell Journals An account of the pioneers who broke the color barrier in America's newspapers |
Ed Bradley View video from his interview as part of the Black Journalists Movement Project |
Black History Month and Beyond documents and preserves the stories of those courageous African American journalists who broke into general circulation media during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. [more...]
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| Martin Reynolds View an interview with Martin Reynolds, Managing Editor at the Oakland Tribune. |
Media Academy View video from the Maynard Media Academy at Harvard University |
Chauncey Bailey View video and more from the Chauncey Bailey Project |
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| History Project Stories of the African American journalists who broke into media during the '60s and '70s. |
Caldwell Journals An account of the pioneers who broke the color barrier in America's newspapers |
Ed Bradley View video from his interview as part of the Black Journalists Movement Project |