Speaking of the Optics of the Annual Dinner . . .

Another Study Says Fear of Change Elected Trump

9 Journalists Killed in Afghanistan Bombings

JSK, Michigan Fellowships Pick Diverse Next Classes

Reid Issues Mea Culpa for Homophobic Remarks

Review Finds 1,480 Wrongful Deportation Arrests

N.Y. Times Names Four of Color to Politics Team

Nathan Conyers, Milwaukee Publisher, Dies at 72

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Speaking of the Optics of the Annual Dinner . . .

In an oft-repeated theme criticizing Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Margaret Sullivan wrote Sunday in the Washington Post:

“Trust in the mainstream media is low, a new populism has caught fire all over the Western world, and President Trump constantly pounds the news media as a bunch of out-of-touch elites who don’t represent the interests of real Americans.

“The annual dinner — or at least the optics of the dinner — seems to back him up.”

Sullivan meant that journalists “don their fanciest clothes and cozy up to the people they cover, alongside Hollywood celebrities who have ventured to wonky Washington to join the fun.”

But the optics also screamed “out-of-touch elites” in another way. The event seemed almost blindingly white.

To be sure, there were some people of color among the 3,000 or so attendees. With Barack and Michelle Obama gone, and whatever black attendees they might have attracted, the gala seemed whiter than usual this year. Journal-isms asked some who attended if they perceived it that way, and was told they did not. “To me, it’s always heavily white, so not sure I noticed a difference this year,” said one. “It’s always overwhelmingly white and so are the majority of those covering the President,” said another.

In 2010, Hispanics or Latinos were 16.3 percent of the U.S. population; blacks or African Americans were 12.6 percent; Asians 4.8 percent; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islanders 0.2 percent; and Native Americans or Alaska Natives 0.9 percent. The census counted 6.2 percent as “some other race” and 2.9 percent as two or more races. The nation is on course to become “majority-minority” in 2044.

Looking at images of a press corps, their bosses and their guests that doesn’t look like America, what must viewers be thinking?

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The current leaders of the White House Correspondents’ Association were unavailable on Monday, but Jeff Mason of Reuters, 2016-17 president, was asked last year about the scant diversity in the White House press corps. He put the onus on the newsrooms from which the correspondents come. Newsroom managers must show leadership in diversifying the newsroom, he told the Journal-isms Roundtable. “Having diversity in the White House press corps is a reflection of that.”

The association is helping to address the issue through its scholarship and mentoring program, which expanded this year to include Grambling State University, a historically black institution, along with Arizona State University and Iowa State University. Howard University, another historically black college or university (HBCU), was already a participant.

The issue of inclusion in the White House press corps is more than a question of optics.

Three journalists of color — April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks, who is African American, and Jim Acosta of CNN and Jorge Ramos of Univision, both Hispanic — have been disrespected by Trump. Each has indicated that if they were not at the press briefings to ask questions relating to their communities, most likely those questions wouldn’t be asked.

In an observation that no doubt holds true today, Paul Farhi wrote for the Washington Post in 2013:

“Of the 53 correspondents who regularly report from the White House, seven are African American or Asian American, according to head counts by a dozen White House correspondents, journalism organizations and other sources (figures on other minorities aren’t available). ‘There are just so few,’ said Martha Joynt Kumar, a Towson University political scientist who has kept detailed tallies on participants in White House news conferences for decades.

“The numbers haven’t budged over decades, and may in fact have declined over time, according to George Condon, a National Journal reporter who has been researching the history of the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA), a group that represents reporters in coverage-related issues with the administration. One measure of the group’s minimal diversity: Only three African Americans have ever served on the WHCA’s board during its 99-year history, Condon said. . . .”

Ryan served on the board from 2011 to 2014.

When Ryan was elected to the WHCA board in 2011, Sonya Ross of the Associated Press explained the significance and urged a course of action for black journalists and the editors who help mold their careers:

“The WHCA is 97 years old.  [It is now 104.] Its board was all white and male for most of that time,” Ross wrote in an email. “There were no black [board] members until Bob [Ellison] was elected president for the 1990-91 term. I was elected in 1999 and served until 2003. No black correspondents have served for nearly a decade. April ran for election twice, I think, before winning this time.

“Thank God she kept trying.

“Martin Luther King Jr. was born, raised, educated, defeated Jim Crow and died in less time than it took to integrate this board, which sets the terms under which presidencies get covered.

“One big reason why the pace of this integration is so slow is because black reporters are notoriously missing from the White House beat. It’s hard for us to get that job, and even harder for us to cultivate the respect necessary to win votes in such a virtually all-white environment. By contrast, some white journalists have served on that board more than once. Doug Mills, who was just elected with April, also served with me.

“While we’re challenging the networks to put black anchors in prime time, we also need to press all media to cultivate black political reporters, assign them to this prime beat and run them for that board while they’re on that job. Can’t stress enough how important that is. ”

• Wayne Bennett, Field Negro: Misguided outrage over a comedian.
• Esther Cepeda, Washington Post Writers Group: Help fight fake news by subscribing to the real thing
• Masha Gessen, New Yorker: How Michelle Wolf Blasted Open the Fictions of Journalism in the Age of Trump
• Cristiano Lima, Politico: How to fix the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Keep it ‘boring,’ journalists say
• Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times: In a world of choices, here’s a good one to pass along
• Troy Patterson, New Yorker: Michelle Wolf and the Pseudo-Event of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner
• Jay Rosen, New York Review of Books: Why Trump Is Winning and the Press Is Losing

Another Study Says Fear of Change Elected Trump

“Ever since Donald J. Trump began his improbable political rise, many pundits have credited his appeal among white, Christian and male voters to ‘economic anxiety,’ Niraj Chokshi reported April 24 for the New York Times. “Hobbled by unemployment and locked out of the recovery, those voters turned out in force to send Mr. Trump, and a message, to Washington.

“Or so that narrative goes.

“A study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences questions that explanation, the latest to suggest that Trump voters weren’t driven by anger over the past, but rather fear of what may come. White, Christian and male voters, the study suggests, turned to Mr. Trump because they felt their status was at risk.

“ ‘It’s much more of a symbolic threat that people feel,’ said Diana C. Mutz, the author of the study and a political science and communications professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics. ‘It’s not a threat to their own economic well-being; it’s a threat to their group’s dominance in our country over all.’ . . . ”

9 Journalists Killed in Afghanistan Bombings

“Twin bombings in Kabul on Monday killed at least 25 people, including nine journalists. It was the deadliest single attack involving journalists in Afghanistan since at least 2002, and one of the most lethal ever worldwide, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists,” Mujib Mashal and Fahim Abed reported Monday for the New York Times.

“A 10th journalist, from the BBC’s Afghan service, was shot and killed in a separate attack on Monday outside Kabul.

“The bombings were the latest spasm of a conflict that began more than a decade and a half ago and shows no sign of ebbing.

“In a two-stage attack, bombers detonated a first device during the morning rush and a second roughly 40 minutes later, killing emergency workers and journalists who had by then reached the site, officials said.

“A branch of the Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came just eight days after the group took responsibility for another explosion that killed 57 people lining up to wer to vote.

“A spokesman for the Afghan police, Hashmat Stanikzai, said the attacks in Kabul on Monday had killed at least 25 people, including four police officers, and wounded 49, but officials and witnesses at the scene said the final casualty figures were likely to be higher.

“At least nine journalists died, including the chief photographer in Afghanistan for Agence France-Presse, Shah Marai, who had covered his war-torn homeland for 20 years. . . .”

Mashal and Abed also wrote, “Mr. Marai, the photographer, had previously written of his pride at often being among the first journalists to reach a bomb site.

“After a colleague was unable to immediately reach the scene of the first bombing on Monday, Mr. Marai sent a message of reassurance, saying he was already at work at the site.

“ ‘No worry man, I am here,’ he said by WhatsApp, in a message later published by AFP.

“Moments later, the second bomb exploded. . . .”

JSK, Michigan Fellowships Pick Diverse Next Classes

The John S. Knight and Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship programs Monday announced diverse classes for 2018-19, with journalists of color representing as many as nine of the 23 Americans. They join a diverse group of 12 international participants.

“If you are speaking more broadly than American then all kinds of diversity,” Lynette Clemetson, director of the Knight-Wallace program at the University of Michigan, said by email.

“Our Brazilian Fellow is Japanese Brazilian, for instance.”

Knight-Wallace Fellows “spend an academic year at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to pursue individual study plans and to engage in collaborative learning through fellowship seminars, training workshops and travel . . .” the program explains. They “receive a stipend of $75,000 for the eight-month academic year plus full tuition and health insurance.”

JSK Fellows, who study at Stanford University, receive a $85,000 stipend and the cost of Stanford tuition and Stanford health care.

The American JSK fellows include:

• Marina Walker Guevara, deputy director, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Washington
• Akilah Johnson, reporter, Boston Globe
• Geraldine Moriba, president and executive producer, Moriba Media, New York
• Ronny Rojas, data editor, Univision News, Miami

The American Michigan fellows and their topics of study include:

• Arnessa Garrett, assistant business editor, Dallas Morning News. Rebuilding trust with local audiences through digital strategy and engagement
• Seema Mehta, political reporter, Los Angeles Times. How automation will impact the economy and the 2020 presidential election
• Luis Trelles, reporter and producer, Radio Ambulante, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The politics of reconstruction in U.S. territories devastated by natural disasters
• AJ Vicens, reporter, Mother Jones, Washington. How artificial intelligence, cyber security and data shape modern society
• Neda Ulaby, correspondent, NPR, Los Angeles. Cultural history of the veil in world religions

Reid Issues Mea Culpa for Homophobic Remarks

“Joy Reid opened her show on MSNBC Saturday with a mea culpa about past homophobic remarks and admitted cybersecurity experts haven’t been able to prove her former blog was hacked,” Jackie Wattles and Tom Kludt reported for CNNMoney.

“Reid reiterated claims that she was not the author of homophobic posts that were recently surfaced from a blog she ran in the 2000s. But she acknowledged making past comments that have been described as homophobic.

” ‘Many of you have seen these blog posts circulating online and on social media. Many of them are homophobic, discriminatory and outright weird and hateful,’ she said at the open of her weekend show, ‘AM Joy.’

” ‘I spent a lot of time trying to make sense of these posts. I hired cybersecurity experts to see if somebody had manipulated my words or my former blog, and the reality is they have not been able to prove it.’

“She added: ‘I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past why some people don’t believe me. . . .’ ”

• Conor Friedersdorf, the Atlantic: The Opportunity Costs of Covering Joy Reid

Review Finds 1,480 Wrongful Deportation Arrests

“Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans,” Paige St. John and Joel Rubin reported Friday for the Los Angeles Times.

“But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews.

“Since 2012, ICE has released from its custody more than 1,480 people after investigating their citizenship claims, according to agency figures. And a Times review of Department of Justice records and interviews with immigration attorneys uncovered hundreds of additional cases in the country’s immigration courts in which people were forced to prove they are Americans and sometimes spent months or even years in detention.

“Victims include a landscaper snatched in a Home Depot parking lot in Rialto and held for days despite his son’s attempts to show agents the man’s U.S. passport; a New York resident locked up for more than three years fighting deportation efforts after a federal agent mistook his father for someone who wasn’t a U.S. citizen; and a Rhode Island housekeeper mistakenly targeted twice, resulting in her spending a night in prison the second time even though her husband had brought her U.S. passport to a court hearing.

“They and others described the panic and feeling of powerlessness that set in as agents took them into custody without explanation and ignored their claims of citizenship. . . .”

• Aura Bogado, Reveal News, Center for Investigative Reporting: ICE isn’t following its own handbook on how to deport kids
• Dina Radtke, Media Matters for America: ICE is wrongly designating immigrants as gang members to deport them — and conservatives are thrilled
• Hannah Dreier, ProPublica: Were Henry’s Civil Rights Violated?

N.Y. Times Names Four of Color to Politics Team

The New York Times Monday named three journalists of color to editing and reporting positions on its politics team for 2018, working under politics editor Patrick Healy. Three editors, 13 reporters and a news assistant were named overall.

Joining the team are Haeyoun Park, “a brilliantly inventive editor in Graphics” who is Asian American and “will be a senior politics editor focused on news, projects and visuals”; and African American reporters Caitlin Dickerson, “an outstanding National reporter and immigration writer, and a member of the ‘Overlooked’ series team and contributor to ‘The Daily‘ [podcast]”; Astead W. Herndon, “a rising star at The Boston Globe covering national politics, who is joining The Times in early May.”

In addition, “Isabella Grullón Paz, a sharp young student journalist who is graduating from Ithaca College in May, will be the politics news assistant.” She is Hispanic.

Separately, the Times is planning in its New York headquarters “an exhibit about significant milestones of black contributions to The Times,” Adrian J. Hopkins, co-chair of the African-American employee resource group, told Journal-isms by email on Monday. “The Times Gallery will be a new permanent space in our building,” said Hopkins, who is program manager, mentorships. The gallery is scheduled to open in the fall.

In January, Jaweed Kaleem updated readers of Nieman Reports on changes in the Times’ race coverage.

Kaleem wrote that staffers credit Executive Editor Dean Baquet “for mandating changes to race coverage that helped break down departmental walls and incorporate new ways of storytelling.

“In 2016, he encouraged editors to think of ways to ‘beef up our coverage of race but do it in a way that was not a series,’ says national editor Marc Lacey. Now, every week, dozens of New York Times editors and reporters join or dial into a meeting at the paper’s Manhattan building where an array of section representatives brainstorm stories related to race.

“The resulting coverage includes a Facebook Live series, where reporters and editors talk via webcam about racial issues in the news, and the Race/Related newsletter, which has gained more than 100,000 subscribers since its launch in April 2016. . . .”

Kaleem also wrote, “Incorporating reader submissions has been a key part of changes in race coverage at the Times, according to Lacey: ‘We decided right from the beginning that we would not focus on the print newspaper but on our digital audience. We vowed we would do a lot of callouts. We also decided we’d be less defensive as journalists than we often are when covering contentious, delicate topics like race. We knew if we fessed up right from the beginning that there will be times that you disagree with us, and that we want to hear from you, it would only help.”

“Sometimes, staffers unwittingly hit upon explosive ideas. . . .”

Nathan Conyers, Milwaukee Publisher, Dies at 72

Nathan Conyers, “whose keen news sense, Christian spirit, and community concern [led’ to the founding of The Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper,” died Friday at age 72, Jacquelyn D. Heath wrote in an obituary furnished by the newspaper.

He died of heart failure, his wife, Lynda, told Journal-isms Monday.

“In 1981, Conyers joined forces with [community activist Louvenia. Johnson; local [R]ealtor Luther Golden; and Lynda Jackson, to establish a bi-weekly newspaper devoted to church news within the city’s African American faith community dubbed . . . the Christian Times. Within its first year of publication, the paper grew in appeal to cover more general community news and was renamed The Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper, with The Christian Times remaining as a standing feature section to this day.”

The paper has a circulation of 20,000, Lynda Conyers, formerly Lynda Jackson, said.

“In 1985, the Milwaukee Times publishing team launched the annual Black Excellence Awards program as a way to pay tribute to the good works of ordinary people from Milwaukee’s black community who were accomplishing extraordinary things, yet going unnoticed. To date, nearly 1,000 black Milwaukeeans have been introduced to the community from various professional and community endeavors as Black Excellence Awards honorees. . . .”

Heath also wrote, “In 1991, the newspaper also sponsored The Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper High School Journalism Workshop, an internship program which operated for three years and gave area students hands-on, paid experience in news writing, editing, photojournalism, printing and publishing skills. . . .”

Short Takes

• “In the dense forests of South Asia, a native African tribe has been living in quiet obscurity for more than 500 years,” National Geographic reports in a short video. “Known as the Siddis, their ancestors originated from the Great Lakes region before being captured and brought to India as Arab slaves. When slavery was outlawed in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Siddis feared persecution and retreated into the forests, where they have been living ever since. Today, the Siddi people are considered to be in the lowest bracket of the Hindu caste system — the Sudras, or the ‘untouchables.’ In this short film by photographer and filmmaker Asha Stuart, get a rare look inside the Siddi tribal villages and explore the cultural diversity of this African-Diaspora community. . . .”
• “This week, the Latina.com site went dark — the latest sign of financial stress for a company that is once again a month behind in paying staffers and many months behind paying freelancers,” Keith J. Kelly reported Wednesday for the New York Post. “One staffer said she only found out Solera [Capital, the owner] had not paid for Latina’s health insurance for the past two months when she was trying to pick up a prescription.National Writers Union President Larry Goldbetter said there are complaints from at least 10 freelancers owed ‘more than $50,000.’ ” Goldbetter told Journal-isms on Monday, “We are working with 10 women, for now. They are all notifying Latina that we are representing them. . . .”

• “Bruce Johnson, a legend in D.C. broadcast news — and a beloved member of our WUSA9 family — is getting ready to start his fight against cancer,” Dori Olmos reported Friday for Washington’s WUSA-TV. “Doctors diagnosed Bruce with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He will start chemotherapy treatment in the coming weeks. He will step away from the anchor desk to focus on his health starting Friday night for an undetermined amount of time. . . .”
• “Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will begin sharing her keen eye and ear for poetry as the New York Times Magazine’s next poetry editor, starting in June,” the university announced on Friday. Dove said she would introduce “a new poem each week to a reading public that is wider than most poetry circles. The new position won’t affect her role at UVA,” the university’s Anne E. Bromley wrote.
• “Teams at the BBC have been working in collaboration for their latest global series ‘Crossing Divides’, which uses solutions journalism to show how people across the world are tackling the divisions in society such as age, religion, race, politics and class,” Caroline Scott reported Friday for journalism.co.uk. Emily Kasriel, head of editorial partnerships and special projects, BBC World Service, “noted that solutions journalism, an approach to reporting that highlights answers to problems as opposed to focusing on the issues themselves, was key in engaging audiences with this topic, as research is providing evidence that a surfeit of bad news is one of the most significant reasons why more of us are becoming news avoiders,” Scott wrote.
• Thirty civil rights and media organizations, including the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Native American Journalists Association, joined Monday with the Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council in a petition before the Federal Communications Commission. The groups urge the FCC to discourage the “nearly-exclusive use of word-of-mouth recruiting” when it comes from a homogenous, non-diverse staff.
• Charles E. Cobb Jr., a journalist, author and professor who is a co-founder of the National Association of Black Journalists and former field secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, has been named to the 2018 class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows, the Carnegie Foundation of New York announced Wednesday. “As part of the so-called ‘brainy award,’ 31 extraordinary scholars and writers will each receive up to $200,000, making it possible for them to devote their time to significant research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences,” Celeste Ford wrote for the foundation.
• A “new survey, ‘Caste in the United States,’ finds that caste discrimination is playing out in the United States as well — a finding that raises questions around how South Asian Americans understand themselves and their history,” Sonia Paul reported Wednesday for NPR’s “Code Switch.” “The survey, which is the first of its kind, was commissioned by Equality Labs, a South Asian American human rights startup, and includes the experiences of about 1200 people who volunteered their answers. . . .”
• “Embattled Colorado newspaper The Denver Post is no longer staffing its groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind marijuana news vertical The Cannabist, newsroom leadership confirmed Friday — a decision that is surprising cannabis and journalism circles today,” Tom Angell reported Friday for marijuanamoment.net. “The Cannabist was founded in 2013 by veteran journalist Ricardo Baca as the world’s first adult-use cannabis market was about to launch in Colorado.” Baca was the Post’s first-ever marijuana editor. “Mr. Baca’s agency Grasslands is in early discussions with Post leadership about potentially purchasing The Cannabist should they decide to sell it,” Angell reported. Baca describes himself as “half Latino/indigenous (and half-Irish), “Latino/indigenous” meaning “our people came up from Latin America or down from other indigenous lands.”
• Gayle King, co-host of “CBS This Morning,” is among 12 honorees named to the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, the magazine announced on Monday.
• “She’s held many hats for 37 years at WUSA in Washington D.C.,” Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel reported Friday for TVSpy. “This week Andrea Roane announced her time has come to an end as an anchor-reporter in the Nation’s [Capital]. ‘On Monday, the station announced to my colleagues my upcoming retirement. I’ll be on the air until the end of July.’ . . .”
• “The Wall Street Journal is seeking an Assistant Managing Editor, Talent, to focus on all aspects of newsroom hiring and talent development. The job involves external and internal recruitment, personnel management, career development, diversity initiatives, performance management and organizational development,” according to an advertisement on MediaBistro.
• “The upset within the Los Angeles Times newsroom about a guild study finding lower pay across the board for women and people of color has prompted a memo to the staff today from editor in chief Jim Kirk,” Kevin Roderick reported for LAObserved. “He doesn’t say anything you wouldn’t expect. But the fact of his response at least shows that the issue has reached a level of real concern at the Times. . . .”
• The Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists held its annual Media Access event Saturday at NBC-owned WCAU-TV, “an opportunity for community leaders, nonprofit professionals, and small business owners to get hands-on skills from local journalists and digital experts.”
• “The cancellation of ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ would further erase Asian-Americans from the television landscape,” Nancy Wang Yuen, an associate professor and chair of sociology at Biola University, argued Thursday on HuffPost. “In our research on Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) on television in 2015 and 2016, my co-authors and I found that over one-third of all AAPIs appeared on just 11 shows — one of which is ‘Fresh Off the Boat.’ If ABC cancels the show, with its five Asian-American regular cast members, network television would lose approximately 9 percent of its Asian-American regular actors. . . .”
• Barry Saunders, dropped by the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., last year after more than 24 years as a local columnist , has resurfaced on his own website. The Saunders Report “won’t seek to be all things to all people. It is beholden to no political party or dogma. It is beholden only to truth, justice and good writing,” Saunders says on the site, www.thesaundersreport.com/.
• “After an onslaught of recent protests over R. Kelly’s music and the rise of the #MuteRKelly campaign following countless sexual abuse claims, women of color within the Time’s Up organization are shutting the singer down with their support,” Kia Morgan-Smith reported Monday for thegrio.com “The women released a statement to The Root. . . .” Morgan-Smith also wrote, “This weekend, he was dropped from the lineup of the upcoming Love Jam 2018 at the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion. . . .”
• “In a verdict with grave implications for press freedom, a Malaysian court today handed down the nation’s first conviction under its recently enacted ‘fake news’ law, according to press reports,” the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Monday. “Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman, a Danish citizen, was sentenced to one week in prison and fined 10,000 ringgit (US$2,500) for posting to the internet a two-minute video criticizing police’s response to the April 21 assassination of a member of the militant group Hamas in Kuala Lumpur. . . .”
• The Chronicle of Higher Education is asking academicians, “How does racism manifest itself in higher education, and how have you experienced it?” It wrote Sunday, “For several years, George Yancy has been the target of bigots. In response to an op-ed he published in The New York Times in 2015, he has received hundreds of emails, phone messages, and letters, an overwhelming number of which were filled with racist vitriol. . . .” Yancy wrote a new essay for the Chronicle Sunday, “The Ugly Truth of Being a Black Professor in America.”
• “Nigerien authorities should reverse the expulsion of journalist Baba Alpha and ensure his safety,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said on April 5. “After jailing him for a year, authorities on April 3 released Baba Alpha, a journalist with the privately owned radio and television news agency Bonferey, and drove him to Labbezanga, a town in northeastern Mali on the border with Niger, the journalist told CPJ. . . .”
• “The Maison des Journalistes, located on a quiet street in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, is exactly what its name suggests: a home for journalists from around the world, all of whom came to France after fleeing persecution in their countries of origin,” Marie Doezema reported Thursday for Columbia Journalism Review. “The structure, a converted brush factory, offers temporary refuge to 14 journalists at a time, who typically stay for about six months. Current residents come from countries including Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Morocco, and Kazakhstan. They are all trying to forge a new life in France, and facing the daunting process of applying for asylum. . . .”

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