Aug. 1, 2022
Updating:
Black News Channel Rebrands as The Grio
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Aug. 19, 2022
What We Can Do When Stories Make Us Outraged:
Kids Witness Parents’ Killing; Others Sent Abroad for Torture
Stelter Quits as CNN’s New Bosses Kill Media Show
Newsroom Diversity Survey Too Flawed to Release
Columnist Admits the Times He Was Bone-Headed
‘Soul of a Nation’ in Winner’s Circle
Baquet Wants to Grow Local Investigative Reporters
After Ghana, Chicago’s Fountain Weighs Next Phase
Short Takes: JJ Green and warnings to journalists; Detroit chapter of NABJ; imbalance in coverage of record-breaking heat; what happened to corporate pledges?; Alex Wagner; aid to storytellers of Black narratives; new Axios Fellowship Program; Tim Giago services; Sept. 15 as Democracy Day; Justin Fairfax; Nuestro Estado; Bill McCreary; Kendra Lee; Michelle Singletary, Beverly Kirk; Wil Haygood
Additional Short Takes: FBI’s non-“woke” history; Michael Cottman; Tonyaa Weathersbee; Kamoinge Workshop; Natalie Hopkinson; Kansas City Defender; release of South Sudan journalist; “Nicaragua has become ‘an information black hole,’ ” arrested Guatemala editor José Rubén Zamora
Added Aug. 20: Michael Cottman; Tonyaa Weathersbee; Kamoinge Workshop; Natalie Hopkinson; Kansas City Defender; release of South Sudan journalist; “Nicaragua has become ‘an information black hole,’ ” arrested Guatemala editor José Rubén Zamora
Aug. 23, 2022
Lower Ratings for People of Color at N.Y. Times:
NewsGuild Assesses Performance Reviews
Will CNN Value Holding Media to Account?
Photos of Ketanji Brown Jackson Underwhelm
Stephanie Reid Dies, Guided College-Bound
Aug. 27, 2022
Native Journalists ‘Not Ready’ for N.Y. Times:
Dispute With News Organization Goes Viral
. . . NAJA Is Growing, Considering Name Change
Black Media’s ‘Largest Investment’ on Gun Violence
. . . Database Surfaces the Mass Killings We Miss
Blacks, Latinos React to Biden’s Student Debt Move
‘Capitalism Crisis’ or Not, Jelani Cobb Must Fundraise
Law Curbing Recording of Police Challenged
Editor Won’t Agree to ‘Fascist’ GOP Limits
Newspapers Helped Shape ‘Father of Black History’
More Blows to Diversity at Warner Bros. Discovery
Brown U. Acquires Papers of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Keeping the Focus on Environmental Racism
Short Takes: Mizell Stewart III; Torrance, Calif., police; Biden’s approval among Blacks, Latinos; Russian news media’s spin on Ukraine; humanizing journalism terminology; Errin Haines; disruption at White House press briefing; Jeffery Gerritt and Tony Norman; reaction to survey of N.Y. Times performance ratings; “Oye: The Lab for Latinx Creators”; National Endowment for the Humanities grants; use of newspapers by the newly emancipated; Michaela Pereira; Rana Cash; WNYC newsroom diversity; “Black Is Beautiful” photography; helping newsrooms better engage with and serve diverse audiences;
V. Dion Haynes; A. Sherrod Blakely; Morgan State U. filmmaking; Puerto Rico attacks on journalists and photojournalists; Chronicle World blog on Black Britain; world’s sacred rivers; fundraising for underpaid Liberian journalists; package of blood at journalist’s door; Vietnamese journalist’s nine-year sentence; state of emergency for journalists in Bolivia; Nicaragua’s seizure of newspaper space; Pakistani repression; Nigeria revocation of licenses; Nigeria’s defamation and cyberattack investigations; brutal assaults in Zimbabwe.
Aug. 30, 2022
Blacks Disappointed in Post-Floyd Progress:
Support for Reparations, Voting, Buying Black
Serena Withstood Racist, Sexist Media Attacks
In Some Cases, Gannett Laid Off the Only Reporter
Drug War Snared Black, Latino Men Seeking Aid
Prince Charles Edits Black U.K. Newspaper
CBS Colleagues Remember George Christian
Aug. 31, 2022
Tell Us, Is Ron DeSantis Really That Racist?:
Media Should Be Blunt, Honest Truth-Tellers