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Gates’ theRoot.com, Gets Ugly Comments "It was probably inevitable that in the furor over the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., some...

Bay Area Papers Trim More of Their Staffs Newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area are shrinking their staffs again, and the casualties have included...

Caption:¬† Star Editor Janice Min Stepping Down from Us Weekly "Janice Min, the editor who turned Us Weekly into one of magazine publishing’s major success...

Sonia Sotomayor, all smiles, arrives July 15 for Day 3 of her confirmation hearings. (Credit: talkradionews) Sotomayor Hearings Viewed as They Began:  Differently The Senate...

Updated July 18 ABC’s Peter Jennings, left, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CNN’s Bernard Shaw with Walter Cronkite in New York in 1988. "If he did...

Kevin Chappell of Ebony and Jet magazines was among seven black-press journalists who flew with President Obama. "Immediately, I noticed a difference from my first...

Some newspapers fashioned their front – and back – pages as collectors’ items. Since His Death, Entertainer "Drove the News Agenda" "Tuesday’s lavish Michael Jackson...

On Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart poked fun at the senators who labeled Sonia Sotomayor a racist in a segment called, "White Men...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told senators that her judicial philosophy is guided by ‘fidelity to the law.’ Anchor Russ Mitchell introduces the CBS News...

Ghanaian Went Undercover to Expose Sex Trafficking On his first presidential trip to sub-Saharan Africa, President Obama Saturday boosted a Ghanaian investigative reporter who went...

In May, Gannett closed the Tucson Citizen as a print publication. In Gannett’s latest cutbacks, publishers said they were determined to withstand the recession. Above,...

Howard Manly, executive editor of the Bay State Banner, appears on NECN’s "News Day Live" for "Bay State Banner Moments," discussing news in Boston’s black...