Journalisms: an online column by Richard Prince

Columnist Rob Parker Out at Detroit News

Sportswriter took heat for question to coach;  Farai Chideya leaving "News & Notes" early; FCC fines stations over inadequate EEO records; correspondents of color low on most-viewed list; demise of printed AsianWeek said to signal trend (1/6/09)

Farai Chideya to Leave "News & Notes" Early

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 Johnson's Bid for New Network

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)

Newsday Drops Les Payne

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)

Diversity's Greatest Hits, 2008

A year in the quest for a news media that looks like America

For journalists hard-wired to the quest for racial equality, there could be no bigger story than the election of the first African American president — except that there were fewer journalists this year to report that story, especially those of color.(12/29/08)

Even Reporters Were Mesmerized by Kitt

Journalists recall encounters with legendary diva (12/27/08)

"Buff Bam Is Hawaii Hunk"

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)

Mark Griffith Died From Heart Disease

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)

9 That Add Heft to the Bookshelf

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)

"Katrina's Hidden Race War"

"White residents . . . shooting with impunity"; Mark Griffith of CBS News and NABJ found dead; Renee Ferguson signs off in Chicago (12/18/08) 

Nancy Maynard, co-founder of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education died September 21, 2008.
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