Maynard Forum

Renaissance Journalism Center and ZeroDivide host LearningLab

Renaissance Journalism Center and ZeroDivide are offering a 2-day workshop on multimedia and social networking for journalists, Oct. 1-2 at San Francisco State's College of Extended Learning, 835 Market Street, 8:30am-4pm. Registration: $30 per day.

 
  

  

    


  
  	    

      2010 Journalism Awards: Applications Now Being Accepted
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      
The National Press Foundation is now accepting applications for awards  recognizing journalistic excellence. Winners will be recognized at NPF’s  2011 Awards Dinner, set to take place on March 1, 2011 in Washington, D.C.
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      Off the News: Tips from AAJA
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      
In the coverage of the Discovery Channel hostage situation and its  aftermath, the Asian American Journalists Association wants to remind  media outlets about relevance and context regarding race.
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      Dr. Laura and the Use of the N Word 
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      
Justification and motivation are two key ingredients of thorough reporting. The why of an incident can sometimes transcend what has occurred. But journalists have to be careful that the justification doesn‚Äôt become a fact when it‚Äôs actually a rationalization. Justifications have to be challenged and, if necessary, refuted. 


The recent coverage of Dr. Laura‚Äôs use of the n-word has lacked this element. 


 
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      Talking Fault Lines
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      
Join MIJE President Dori J. Maynard and Santa Clara University Knight-Ridder Chair Sally Lehrman as they talk about the tone of the coverage in the aftermath of the Johannes Mehserle verdict. 
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      The Multimedia Editing Program and the Nevada primary election
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      

    

            

                    Thursday, June 10, 2010        

        




Election night is always exciting in a newsroom, and it was no different on Tuesday as members of the Maynard Institute's Multimedia Editing Program worked the Nevada primary using an array of multimedia tools - some of which the fellows had learned just hours before.
 
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      Surround yourself with smart people and listen
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      

    

            

                    Wednesday, June 9, 2010        

        




Many aspiring journalists as well as media executives could benefit from listening to Katharine Weymouth, The Washington Post's publisher and CEO of Washington Post Media.
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      When Violence Was the Ticket
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      
In the gentle warmth of an April evening 42 years ago, a young reporter  crouched in his radio car on a Washington, D.C. street watching the  violent uprising after Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis.  Bob Maynard, calm and professional under fire, dictated details of the  chaos back to his colleagues in the Washington Post newsroom. Amid that  dangerous duty, he resolved to work toward a day when an aspiring black  journalist “could get a chance without having to put quite so much of  his life on the line.” His work over the next quarter century  demonstrates that he kept that pledge.
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      To reach future audience, ONA and minority journalists must unite
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      

    

            

                    Thursday, October 15, 2009        

        




By Bobbi Bowman
 
 The overwhelmingly white attendees at the Online News Association convention in San Francisco this month reveled in using the latest technology, but they didn't look like their future audience.
 
 The overwhelmingly Asian, black, Latino and Native American journalists attending their respective summer conventions look like their future audience, but they are largely clueless about the latest technology.
 
     


    
 


 

  

  

    


  
  	    

      The far-reaching implications of the 2010 Census
    

  
  
      

      
          

  
  

	      

    

            

                    Monday, August 31, 2009        

        




U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke has outlined the enormity of the 2010 Census and its far-reaching implications:
 
 * "The 2010 Census will be the biggest peacetime government mobilization in our nation's history," Locke told the annual conventions of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association in August.