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Nancy Maynard, co-founder of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education died September 21, 2008.
For 30 years, the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education has been committed to helping the news media reflect America's diversity in staffing, content, and business operations. Incorporated in 1977, the Institute offers editing and management training programs as well as direct services to news organizations. [more]
Maynard Journal The Maynard Journal is published quarterly in print. To download the latest issues in PDF format, please click below.
- Fall 2007 (pdf)
- Spring 2007 (pdf)
- "We Don't Speak Mexican Here"
- Jason Michael Fong's Short Film "Bite Me"
- Roland Burris Denied at Capitol Hill
- JetBlue Passenger Forced to Cover Arabic T-Shirt Awarded
- Copwatch 2.0: Cell Phones Usher in New Era of Police Accountability
- Sanjay Gupta Is Obama's Pick for Surgeon General
- Black Middle Class in Crisis
- WMC Daily News Brief: Ann Coulter, Nancy Pelosi, Gaza
- Cynthia McKinney: Lebanon Saved Us; Oregon to Reduce Foster Care Racial Disparities
- Battling to Rebuild New Orleans by June Cross
- Columnist Rob Parker Out at Detroit News
- Les Payne's Too Quiet Departure
- NABJ Backs Johnson's Bid for New Network
- Newsday Drops Les Payne
- Farai Chideya to Leave "News & Notes" Early
- Maynard Institute Board of Directors
- Shoe Incident: Serious, Funny or Both?
- Maynard Institute Staff
- About the Maynard Institute
- Diversity's Greatest Hits, 2008
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NPR wouldn't pay for show to cover Inauguration; FCC fines stations over inadequate EEO records; correspondents of color low on most-viewed list; demise of printed AsianWeek said to signal trend (1/5/09)
NABJ backs Bob Johnson's plans for new network; Lyne Pitts steps down as NBC News V.P.; USA Today to publish Inauguration issue next week; journalists might not get Inaugural spots. (01/02/09)
New Year to find more journalists of color out of jobs; AsianWeek to lay off staff, end print publication; Hoy New York going Web-only; Internet surpasses newspapers as source of news; BET, TV One plan extensive inauguration coverage; Mark Griffith service planned for Jan. 10. (12/31/08)
A year in the quest for a news media that looks like America
Journalists recall encounters with legendary diva (12/27/08)
Photos of shirtless Obama drive media frenzy; "60 Minutes," New York Times tap into Obamamania; columnists debate filling Illinois, N.Y. Senate seats; NAACP scores lack of progress on TV diversity; Iraq remains deadliest country for the press. (12/24/08)
Even at 48, "not as unusual as you might think" -- memorial service now planned for January; sentiment "almost unanimously" against Detroit News' Rob Parker; HD News Channel, led by Will Wright, goes dark; NBC: Diversity not "only criterion" for White House; Obama's election voted AP's top news story. (12/22/08)
A tour of civil rights landmarks, a little-known, multifaceted black journalist who in 1913 was fighting for capitalization of the word "Negro," a full-throated biography of the iconic Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the first African American woman cartoonist and others. (12/19/08)
"White residents . . . shooting with impunity"; Mark Griffith of CBS News and NABJ found dead; Renee Ferguson signs off in Chicago (12/18/08)











