Comments About Latino ‘Invasion’ Called Last Straw

N.Y. Times Scrambles to Meet Demand for ‘1619’

Be Careful in Describing What Happened in 1619

Mother Accused of Killing Self and Two Children

Service Held for Anchor Who Died in Crash

Media ‘Whitewash’ Key Part of Omar, Tlaib Story

Pat Buchanan, White Supremacist, Returning to TV

Alarmed by ‘Near-Destruction’ of Black Farming

Journalism Educators Group Bestows Awards

Short Takes

Comments About Latino ‘Invasion’ Called Last Straw

The National Association of Hispanic Journalists disinvited Fox News as a sponsor of its upcoming convention Thursday over a commentary by a Fox News radio host who compared immigration from south of the border to an invasion by a “rampaging horde of illegal aliens,” and invoked Nazi Germany.

The commentary by Todd Starnes came less than two weeks after 22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, by an accused shooter who told officials he targeted Mexicans and apparently posted a racist manifesto complaining about a “Hispanic invasion,” as Justin Baragona reported Aug. 14 in the Daily Beast.

“Whether it is the Nazis invading France and Western Europe,” Starnes said. “I mean, whether the Muslims were invading a country back in the early years. It was an invasion.”

NAHJ President Hugo Balta said in a statement, “While alarming, the situation with Starnes is not an isolated incident and follows years of ongoing NAHJ conversations with Fox News and recent meetings with management.

“The latest ‘regret’ by Fox News is one of many where the immigrant community and by association, all Hispanics and Latinos, have been demonized by voices with high visibility due to there being little to no consequences by management.

“As a journalism organization, championing the fair and accurate treatment of Hispanics, Latinos in newsrooms and news coverage — we cannot allow others to ‘shelf’ lies under the pretext of exercising their First Amendment right. . . .”

NAHJ is meeting jointly with two other journalism organizations in San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 5-7 as the Excellence in Journalism conference.

“I asked our co-conference partners the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) to join NAHJ in returning their $16,666 share of the $50K sponsorship dollars,” Balta continued, “but they refused opting instead to give Fox News a larger platform to discuss what they label as a ‘teachable moment.’ . . .”

Fox News pushed back with a statement from Marsheila Hayes, vice president of diversity & inclusion.

“It is unfortunate the country’s main organization for Hispanic journalists has chosen to exclude FOX News from their upcoming convention,” she said. “As the leading news network in the country, we are committed to fostering a diverse and collaborative workplace environment, and have been recognized in the industry for our advancement in this area, most notably with our multimedia reporter program. We are proud of our inclusive team and their achievements in journalism.”

Geraldo Rivera, a lifetime member of NAHJ now employed by Fox News, denounced the association’s decision and called on the board and membership to vote to overrule it. “I’ve written two strongly pro-immigration books, ‘His Panic’ & ‘The Great Progression,’ ” Rivera said in a series of tweets. “My impassioned, on camera debates with my colleagues on the immigration issue are legendary. @HugoBalta has attacked the 1st Amendment by setting himself up as Chief of the Thought Police.”

The NAHJ faceoff with Fox is not without irony. At its 2014 convention in San Antonio, 84-year-old co-founder Charles Ericksen called it “kind of a farce” for the association to honor Fox News and other media companies when the number of employed Hispanic journalists had declined in recent years.

Balta, ending his first term as NAHJ president, apologized to Francisco Cortés, who in October of 2010 launched the now-defunct FoxNewsLatino.com and in San Antonio accepted an NAHJ Media Award on behalf of Fox News Latino.

“I want to personally apologize to you, Fox and the Fox family for what is . . . unacceptable,” Balta said from the stage. “I will not allow any of our guests to be singled out or be insulted in this way. Fox News Latino deserves this award. Frank Cortés was the first Latino to be named VP at Fox. Fox is the reason why we’re here,” Balta said, apparently referring to the participation of Fox News Channel and Fox News Latino as convention sponsors.

In March 2017, the New York Times’ Emily Steel reported that the company had reached a $2.5 million settlement with Fox contributor Tamara Holder to resolve claims that Cortés had forced himself upon her. Cortés was let go, and unsuccessfully sued Fox.

• Marie Arana, Washington Post: A history of anti-Hispanic bigotry in the United States (Aug. 9)
• Tiffany Hsu, New York Times: Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Show Loses More Advertisers
• Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “When life itself seems lunatic, there’s always Tucker Carlson…” (Aug. 9)
• Ben Zimmer, the Atlantic: Where Does Trump’s ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric Come From? (Aug. 6)

N.Y. Times Scrambles to Meet Demand for ‘1619’

The New York Times is scrambling to meet demand for “The 1619 Project,” its special New York Times Magazine edition on the impact of slavery in the United States since 1619, when the first Africans were brought to English-speaking America.

“Newsstands sold out but to bring The 1619 Project to non-Times subscribers, we have printed hundreds of thousands of additional copies of this issue, as well as of the special newspaper section, for distribution at libraries, schools and museums,” Danielle Rhoades Ha, vice president for communications of the New York Times Co., told Journal-isms Wednesday by email.

“There have been a couple of rounds of reprints at this point with perhaps more to come.”

While Rhodes Ha did not have exact figures for sales of the Aug. 18 paper, the Times reported a Sunday print circulation of 928,104 for the second quarter of the year, according to the Alliance for Audited Media.

Because of @wilsonchandler free #1619project copies were distributed in Benton Harbor and we will be in Detroit Sept. 4. @EkpeUdoh has copies to distribute in Oklahoma. @NAACP_LDF @itsgabrielleu @johnlegend and @Fund2F have copies going out in several cities. Thank you so much.

— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) August 19, 2019

The Times explained, “The goal of the project is to deepen understanding of American history (and the American present) by proposing a new point of origin for our national story. In the days and weeks to come, we will publish essays demonstrating that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery. . . ”

Times editor Mara Gay wrote, “In the days and weeks to come, we will publish essays demonstrating that nearly everything that has made America exceptional grew out of slavery.”

Jeet Heer wrote Wednesday in the Nation, “These words, and the first batch of essays, provoked many prominent right-wingers to go berserk.

“Newt Gingrich could barely contain his rage on Twitter as he quoted Gay. ‘This is simply a LIE,’ Gingrich barked. ‘Pravda was never more dishonest than this effort to write a “left history.” Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute tweeted in a like manner, ‘Writing about history is great, but a project intended to delegitimize mankind’s grandest experiment in human liberty & self’ ‘governance is divisive, yes.’

“Daily Signal contributor Jarrett Stepman wrote that the goal of the series is ‘to delegitimize American ideas and place race and slavery at the heart of literally everything this country is about (including things like healthcare). Racism and slavery were there at the time of the founding, but they aren’t what the country was founded on.’ . . .

“This collective meltdown is puzzling. Anyone who takes the trouble to sit down and read the essays in the 1619 Project will be struck by the fact that they are very sober, thoroughly grounded in the most recent mainstream scholarship, and also surprisingly and fiercely patriotic. By placing the black experience at the center of the American story, the series doesn’t debunk the nation’s ideals of freedom, showing them to be pure claptrap. Rather, focusing on the struggles of those who were denied freedom dramatizes the story of how those ideals came to acquire a measure of reality. . . .”

The Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, who conceived of the project, said of black Americans on NPR’s “1A” Thursday, “This has changed the way they think about themselves as Americans.“ (audio)

• Audrey Adams with NAACP President Derrick Johnson, Talk With Audrey: Jamestown to Jamestown, NAACP Commemorates 400 years of African Diaspora (podcast)
• DeNeen L. Brown, Michael E. Ruane, Gregory S. Schneider, Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post: The Dawn of American Slavery
• Jim Geraghty, National Review: What The 1619 Project Leaves Out
• Courtney Hagle, Media Matters for America: The NY Times’ 1619 Project discusses slavery’s impact on American society. Conservatives are not happy.
• Rick Hampson and Deborah Barfield Berry, USA Today: The founding family you’ve never heard of: The black Tuckers of Hampton, Virginia
• Journal-isms: US Slaves Fought Against America’s Independence? (July 1, 2014)
• Times Insider, New York Times: How the 1619 Project Came Together
• Rebecca Onion, Slate: A Brief History of the History Wars
• Leonard Pitts Jr., Miami Herald: Ew! It’s such a bummer to have to hear about all that slavery stuff
• PRI’s The World, Public Radio International: Slavery’s unresolved history (collection of pieces)
• Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post: In one unusual Virginia neighborhood, roots stretch to some of the earliest Africans in America
• E.R. Shipp. Baltimore Sun:  It’s time for journalists to tell more complex truths
• Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone: The 1619 Project’s Patriotic Work
• DeWayne Wickham, USA Today: Aaron Burr’s lawyer owned my family. It has been a long, tragic journey from slavery.

Be Careful in Describing What Happened in 1619

The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, for whom the commemorations of the arrival of Africans in Virginia are a local story, urged care last week in describing the original event. It was not, as one newspaper proclaimed, the arrival of “the first Africans in America.”

“[I]t is necessary to remember that 1619 is just one pivotal point in the formation of the United States, historians say,” Denise Watson reported for the Pilot on Aug. 11.

“Acknowledging the people and events that existed before creates a truer and more meaningful history. Besides, there are any number of places that can claim a first — and they will all be correct. . . .

“Hampton, for example, is the first spot for Africans to land in an English North American colony in 1619. They weren’t the first Africans on North American soil, though. And the first Africans here were not enslaved. In 1513, explorer Juan Garrido became the first documented African in the continental United States when he came ashore in Florida.

“If you include Puerto Rico, an American territory that saw Spanish colonists and Africans before Florida, the timeline lengthens.

“Then there’s English sea captain Sir Francis Drake, who brought 300 Africans to Roanoke Island, N.C., in 1586 — 33 years before Hampton. The Carolina colony fizzled, and its story often does, too.

“It also doesn’t help when reputable organizations get the facts wrong. . . .”

Mother Accused of Killing Self and Two Children

“Investigators believe the ex-wife of a prominent Atlanta surgeon and civic leader shot and killed their two children before turning the gun on herself,” Zachary Hansen and Chelsea Prince reported Thursday for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Dr. Marsha Edwards, 58, was identified as the suspect in their deaths. The victims were identified by Cobb County police as 24-year-old Christopher Edwards II and 20-year-old Erin Edwards, the story reported. Marsha Edwards formed MME Enterprises LLC in July 2015, according to the company’s website. The company provides medical equipment and services to hospitals, physicians and other medical providers in metro Atlanta, Hansen and Prince wrote.

Marsha Edwards and her two children were members of the National Association of Black Journalists, which issued a statement Thursday. Erin “was an intern last summer in the mayor’s communications office, according to the city. A student at Boston University, she was coming off a summer internship with an NBC station in New York,” the Journal-Constitution said.

Edwards II “had been the digital content manager for the Atlanta film and entertainment office since March 2018, the city said. According to Elon University, he obtained a degree in media and arts entertainment from the college after graduating from Woodward Academy. . . .”

Service Held for Anchor Who Died in Crash

“Nancy Parker was known for her off-camera wit, warmth, and devotion to family and for her on-camera, Emmy-winning knack for presenting a story,” Kevin McGill wrote Thursday for the Associated Press.

“Franklin Augustus was her latest subject, a pioneer African-American stunt pilot with a half-century of flying experience who sometimes visited local schools wearing a superhero’s mask to deliver anti-drug messages.

“It was the perfect match of storyteller and story but it came to a sudden, stark end last week. Augustus’ two-seat biplane crashed and burned shortly after takeoff Friday from New Orleans Lakefront Airport with Parker aboard. Both died in a crash that remains under investigation.

“New Orleans is still saying goodbye.”

Admirers held a memorial service at Xavier University Friday for Parker, “who is survived by her husband Glynn Boyd, a former reporter who now is a spokesman for a suburban sheriff’s office, and their three children. She was remembered over the weekend in a neighborhood ‘second-line’ parade (so called because watchers fall in behind the band to form a second line of marchers). A makeshift memorial of flowers, balloons and other memorabilia remains outside the WVUE-TV studios where Parker, 53, was a popular anchor for 23 years. . . .”

Media ‘Whitewash’ Key Part of Omar, Tlaib Story

In the uproar over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to bar the entry of Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., from Israel at the urging of President Trump, then reversing course, Bari Weiss, staff editor and writer for the New York Times opinion section, says an important part of the story was missing,

“Now, that’s a huge story, one that I wrote a column about,” Weiss said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “But another huge story, one that has not been covered by any mainstream paper [or] network is the fact that their trip to Israel or as they called it Palestine was being sponsored by a group that literally published neo-Nazi blood libels and said that it supported female suicide bombers, you know, hailing them as heroes. That’s a scandal.

“If someone like [Rep.] Steve King [R-Iowa] was going to Sweden or Norway and meeting with neo-Nazi groups, that would be front-page news,” said Weiss, author of the forthcoming “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.” “One of the questions I think we need to ask is the fact that Trump has you know, lodged racist, horrible attacks on these women has that made them sort of untouchable for us to cover in an accurate way.

“I think that’s one of the problems of this moment that it’s very hard to cover sort of complicated characters and stories like them because the president, everything he touches becomes toxic. . . .”

Representatives of the two members of Congress did not respond to requests for comment.

Conservative media have pursued the “blood libel” connection, however.

“This should be a national scandal,” David French wrote Aug. 16 in the National Review.

“The most important element of the story is the fact that two American congresswomen shunned a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to go on an independent trip to Israel sponsored by vicious anti-Semites. Another important element of the story is that, as of today, the mainstream media have whitewashed Omar and Tlaib’s vile associations. . . .”

• Josh Feldman, Mediaite: Ex-House Democrat: Tlaib and Omar Posting Cartoon From Holocaust Denier Plays Right Into Trump’s Hands
• Emily Jones, cbn.com: Omar-Tlaib Israel Trip Planned by Anti-Semitic Group With History of ‘Blood Libels, Nazi Screeds, Celebration of Terrorists’

Pat Buchanan, White Supremacist, Returning to TV

Pat Buchanan, the conservative polemicist who was bounced from MSNBC in 2012 after authoring a book bemoaning that birthrate trends and “Third World” immigration were precipitating “the end of white America,” is coming back.

Buchanan is one of the co-stars of the upcoming relaunch of “The McLaughlin Group,” Maryland Public Television announced Aug. 12.

“Tom Rogan, noted political writer and commentator, is back to host the series. Rogan replaced original host John McLaughlin, who died in 2016. He is joined by longtime regular panel members Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift, and Clarence Page. Guest panelists will also appear on the program on a regular basis. The panel will continue to engage in lively political discourse covering current and emerging issues of the day, as well as topics of interest to voters during the current election cycle,” the announcement said.

Eric Hananoki wrote Tuesday for Media Matters for America, “Numerous writers have criticized Buchanan’s inclusion in the relaunch. Buchanan has a history of openly pushing white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

“Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, tweeted on Monday: ‘Especially as white supremacist violence surges, it is irresponsible and dangerous to give Pat Buchanan a public platform for his repugnant #antiSemitic, white supremacist and homophobic views. Public TV stations must keep this hate off the airwaves.’ McLaughlin Group host and conservative writer Tom Rogan responded to Media Matters’ criticism of Buchanan’s role on the relaunch by tweeting: ‘Media Matters being insane as usual.’ . . .”

• Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times: Charles Manson was a white supremacist. Why can’t pop culture seem to admit it?
• Gene Demby, NPR “Code Switch”: White Supremacy Has Never Been Fringe (Aug. 10)
• Elvia Díaz, Arizona Republic; Can Latinos love white supremacists? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks so (Aug. 7)
• Janell Ross and Suzanne Gamboa, NBC Latino: El Paso, racism and rhetoric: The growing toll of bigotry in America
• Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker: The Fight to Redefine Racism (Aug. 12)

Alarmed by ‘Near-Destruction’ of Black Farming

“In America, land has always had a significance that exceeds its economic value. For a people who were once chattel themselves, real property has carried an almost mystical import,” writes Vann R. Newkirk II in his September cover story, a year-long investigation into how African American farmers were systematically robbed of their land,” Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, wrote this week in an emailed note to readers.

“Since the 1950s, 98 percent of black agricultural landowners have lost their property. Newkirk examines the mechanisms — some legal, some not — through which black-owned farms came into the hands of white people and, eventually, Wall Street. The result is almost 12 million acres of dispossessed land, and the near-destruction of black farming — an occupation that once defined the African American experience.

“Economists estimate that this mass dispossession has resulted in the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars, perhaps even trillions of dollars, of black wealth. Newkirk’s story is essential to understanding the wider racial wealth gap that exists today and its role in the conversation on reparations—a conversation that gained momentum in this magazine and that, Newkirk writes, ‘must consider the land.’ . . .”

Journalism Educators Group Bestows Awards

About 2,300 educators, students, media professionals, speakers and guests attended the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Toronto from Aug. 7 to 10, where these were among the awards presented:

Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine, AEJMC First Amendment Award; Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, University of Georgia, 2019 Krieghbaum Under 40 Award; Sue Robinson, Wisconsin, Madison, 2019 James Tankard Book Award for “Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive Communities”; Rochelle L. Ford, Elon University, 2019 Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education.

Also, University of Nevada, Reno, 2019 AEJMC Equity and Diversity Award; Bruno Takahashi, Juliet Pinto, Manuel Chavez and Mercedes Vigón, 2019 AEJMC-Knudson Latin America Prize for “News Media Coverage of Environmental Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean”; Jinx Broussard, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University, 2018 Scripps Howard Foundation Teacher of the Year Award (announced in 2019); Lolly Bowean, Chicago Tribune, 2019 Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award; Linda Shockley, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, 2019 Gerald Sass Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication; Michelle Rotuno-Johnson, Ohio University, AEJMC History Division Diversity in Journalism History Research Award for “Cultural Hegemony in New York Press Coverage of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.”

Short Takes

• “In the aftermath of the attacks in El Paso, did the media put the focus on the wrong place?“ John Avlon asked Aug. 11 as he hosted CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Univision anchor Enrique Acevedo replied, “I think this goes back to the issue of lack of diversity in our newsrooms, John, not just in terms of gender and race. Latinos represent 7 percent of our journalists in our newsroom when we’re 17 percent of the population. But also, and I think more importantly, generations, points of view and geography. . . . What’s missing from that discussion is a point of view of the border, the voices of journalists like the ones you have on today and who are some of the best in the country covering that region. . . .”
• “ProPublica Programs Are Helping Diverse Candidates Break Into Newsrooms. Here Are Their Inspiring Stories: Almost 100 journalists and journalism students have gone through our Data Institute and scholarship program,” read a headline Wednesday over a ProPublica report from people who have been through the programs. “Many have told us that their experience shaped their lives and careers.”
• Ebony Reed, recently of the Reynolds Journalism Institute and the Associated Press, has joined the Wall Street Journal as new audiences editor, Christine Schmidt reported Aug. 12 for Nieman Lab. Reed’s responsibilities include focusing on a financial literacy project for professional women, “future initiatives for minority groups” and keeping track of the diversity of people quoted and displayed in stories and photographs, Schmidt wrote.
• The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, dedicated to increasing and retaining reporters and editors of color in investigative reporting, will now be based at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the School of Media and Journalism announced on Thursday.
• “This week 10 Democratic candidates and one independent in the 2020 presidential race, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, addressed indigenous communities at the first-ever Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa,” Democracy Now! reported Wednesday. “During the two-day event, candidates individually answered questions from a panel of tribal leaders and Native American youth and elders on issues including treaty rights, voter suppression, and murdered and missing indigenous women. . . .” Mark Trahant, editor of Indian Country Today, moderated.
• “The New York Times said in a statement on Tuesday that Jonathan Weisman, a deputy Washington editor of The Times, had been demoted and would no longer oversee the paper’s congressional correspondents because he repeatedly posted messages on social media about race and politics that showed what the paper called ‘serious lapses in judgment,’ ” Marc Tracy reported Aug. 13 for the Times. The statement came a day after the Daily Beast reported that Times executive editor Dean Baquet admitted that the paper can and should do a better job covering race in the Donald Trump era. “During a hastily arranged meeting, lasting well over an hour, top Times leadership addressed the paper’s staff about public criticism the outlet has faced in recent weeks centering around its coverage of Trump, race, and politics,” Lachlan Cartwright, Maxwell Tani and Lloyd Grove reported.
• Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleav cut state funding for public radio and TV stations, about $2.7 million,” Tegan Hanlon reported Tuesday for the Anchorage Daily News. “The cut is likely to lead to the elimination of jobs and less content purchasing, said Mollie Kabler, executive director of Alaska Public Broadcasting, Inc. The funding cut will also lead to decreases in federal funding across the 27 stations, she said. For some stations, such as those in Ketchikan, Homer and Kodiak, the cut puts the entirety of their federal funding at risk.”
• “If Colin Kaepernick never plays in the NFL again, he has a future in magazine publishing,” Karu F. Daniels wrote Wednesday for the Daily News in New York. “The headline grabbing quarterback — who opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers following the 2016 NFL season to become a free agent, and has gone unsigned since kneeling during the national anthem before games — is the guest curator of Paper magazine’s upcoming ‘People’ issue, which hits newsstands Sept. 3. . . .” Black Media Divided Over Jay-Z’s Kaepernick-less NFL Partnership
• “Heading towards a $20 billion showdown with Comcast at the U.S. Supreme Court this fall in his long running racial discrimination lawsuit against the media giant, Byron Allen today tore into the Brian Roberts-run behemoth and an 11th hour intervention by the Department of Justice,” Dominic Patten and Mike Fleming Jr. wrote Monday for Deadline. ‘This is historic,’ the Entertainment Studios boss said of the August 15 brief filed by the feds seeking to tighten the definitions of a Reconstruction Era statute in Comcast’s favor. ‘Donald Trump’s DOJ and Comcast are working together to destroy a civil rights statute in the U.S. Supreme Court.’ . . .”

  

• K. Connie Kang, who is thought to be the first Korean female reporter in the United States, came to work at the Los Angeles Times in the fall of 1992 and worked there until 2008, Laura Newberry reported Sunday for the Times. “Kang died last week from pancreatic cancer, according to longtime friends. She was 76. Kang was hired on the heels of the 1992 riots, when the Korean American Journalists Assn.,organization implored the newspaper “to hire a Korean-speaking reporter who would cover the community with thought and fairness,” Newberry wrote.
• “We asked 6,637 U.S. adults about their views on current race relations, racial inequality and the tense history that led us here,” Amanda Barroso and Juliana Menasce Horowitz wrote Wednesday for the Pew Research Center. “We found that Americans are divided along racial lines in their views on the legacy of slavery, the best way to achieve diversity and the value they place on their own racial and ethnic identity. . . .”
• The Native American Journalists Association objected Aug. 12 to a new Washington Post survey by the Wolvereye market research firm that shows “the majority of Native Americans still aren’t offended by the name” of the Washington NFL team, in the words of Post columnist Theresa Vargas. “According to Wolvereye, the sample was comprised of individuals who ‘self-identified as Native Americans across the United States.’ Verifiable tribal citizenship or descendancy was not taken into account, and some or all respondents may not be Indigenous. . . . “
• “College Daily, which now has more than thirty staffers in Beijing and fifteen in New York, launched at the beginning of 2014, as a one-man operation” in founder Lin Guoyu’s apartment, in Beijing,” Han Zhang reported Monday for the New Yorker. “In its early days, it was a bare-bones survival guide for American campus life, with vaporous posts about boosting your G.P.A. and planning for finals week. Over time, and especially after the 2016 U.S. election, it transitioned to the kinds of stories it features today: Chinese news delivered with nationalistic overtones; tabloid tales of Chinese students living overseas (sex, drugs, murders, and missing women appear frequently); and news from the U.S. and the celebrity world. . . .”
• A bodyguard for White House correspondent April D. Ryan “faces criminal charges after he allegedly forced a local reporter out of an event in New Brunswick, [N.J.,] first taking the journalist’s camera and then twisting his arm behind his back,” Amanda Hoover reported Monday for NJ Advance Media For NJ.com. Hoover also wrote, “A criminal complaint dated August 19 charges 30-year-old Joel Morris of Country Club Hills, Illinois, with harassment, assault and theft.” Referring to Charlie Kratovil, editor of New Brunswick Today, Hoover added, “It alleges Morris took Kratovil’s arm and shoved it behind his back, injuring his forearm and shoulder. The harassment and theft charges stem from Morris taking the camera, according to the complaint. . . .”
• “Motivated to give readers well-written and in-depth coverage of the state legislature, and provide college students with real-world experience, the Houston Defender Media Group, an 88-year-old Black Press institution, came up with a unique partnership with local schools,” Evelyn Mateos reported Aug. 14 for Editor & Publisher. “Last October, the publication reached out to the communications departments at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and Houston-Tillotson University (HT), a historically black campus, to find students to cover the Texas Legislative Black Caucus, which took place at the end of February this year. . . .”
• “Fox News personalities Brit Hume and Jedediah Bila defended their colleague, Juan Williams, after President Donald Trump targeted the network’s liberal commentator,” Ken Meyer reported Monday for Mediaite. “Shortly after Williams criticized Trump on Sunday for his trade war with China and disputes with Wall Street, the president got on Twitter and responded in his typical manner: ‘Juan Williams at @FoxNews is so pathetic, and yet when he met me in the Fox Building lobby, he couldn’t have been nicer as he asked me to take a picture of him and me for his family. Yet he is always nasty and wrong!’ ” Williams told The Hill “that he had asked Trump for the photo at Fox on behalf of a security guard who wanted a picture with the president, an interaction Williams said Trump misunderstood.”
• . . . Trump added, “then they have the wonderful woman that gave Hillary Clinton the questions. That was a terrible thing. And all of a sudden, she’s working for Fox. What’s she doing working for Fox?” Josh Feldman reported Sunday for Mediaite. “Trump was referring there to Donna Brazile, the former DNC chair who now works for Fox.” Brazile has flatly denied providing the 2016 Clinton campaign with questions she would be asked in a televised CNN town hall.
• “A man is suing Don Lemon, claiming the CNN host attacked him at a Hamptons bar last summer,” Aidan McLaughlin reported Aug. 13 for Mediaite. “The suit, obtained by Mediaite, was filed Sunday and seeks unspecified damages for ’emotional pain and suffering.’ “ ‘The plaintiff in this lawsuit has previously displayed a pattern of contempt for CNN on his social media accounts,’ a CNN spokesperson told Mediaite in a statement. ‘This claim follows his unsuccessful threats and demands for an exorbitant amount of money from Don Lemon. Don categorically denies these claims and this matter does not merit any further comment at this time.’ . .”

  

• “Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell’s storied career, one that has spanned nearly three decades at the newspaper, was celebrated Friday by colleagues, politicians and friends,” the Sun-Times reported Aug. 16. “Mitchell, who decided last month to scale back her workload, is known in Chicago for her fearless voice fighting discrimination, combating domestic violence and holding politicians accountable. She also inspired many by chronicling her battle with breast cancer. . . . ‘I used to drive my car, look up at the city and say, “Oh my God, I got a voice in the city of Chicago. How good is that? How good is that?” ‘ “
• Authorities in Ethiopia should unconditionally release journalist Mesganaw Getachew, who was arrested on Aug. 9 after recording an interview outside a court in Addis Ababa, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. “Mesganaw, who reports for the privately owned Ethiopis weekly, was arrested shortly after he interviewed a lawyer, Henok Aklilu, outside the Arada First Instance court in Addis Ababa, and is now facing allegations of contravening Ethiopia’s Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, Henok and Mesganaw’s editor, Eskinder Nega, told CPJ. . . .”
• “Five renowned journalists in Latin America just launched a new journalistic project that seeks to use collaborative investigative journalism to explain phenomena that cross borders in the region,” Paola Nalvarte reported Aug. 16 for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americans. “The Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP, for its acronym in Spanish), will tackle transnational issues like large-scale corruption and illegal or abusive practices. . . .”
• “Luckson Saint-Vil, a journalist for the site Loop Haiti, was on his way home in southern Haiti when his vehicle was shot multiple times. He survived,” Teresa Mioli reported Aug. 14 for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. She also wrote, “According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Saint-Vil said he filed a complaint with judicial police days prior because he received death threats. They came after the journalist won the Philippe Chaffanjon Prize in June 2019 for a report on alleged links between violent gangs and authorities, and then appeared on television in relation to the award. . . .”

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• February 2018 Podcast: Richard “Dick” Prince on the need for newsroom diversity (Gabriel Greschler, Student Press Law Center, Feb. 26, 2018)
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2017 — Where Will They Take Us in the Year Ahead?
• Book Notes: Best Sellers, Uncovered Treasures, Overlooked History (Dec. 19, 2017)
• An advocate for diversity in the media is still pressing for representation, (Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, Nov. 28, 2017)
• Morgan Global Journalism Review: Journal-isms Journeys On (Aug. 31, 2017)
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2016
• Book Notes: 16 Writers Dish About ‘Chelle,’ the First Lady
• Book Notes: From Coretta to Barack, and in Search of the Godfather
• Journal-isms’ Richard Prince Wants Your Ideas (FishbowlDC, Feb. 26, 2016)
• “JOURNAL-ISMS” IS LATEST TO BEAR BRUNT OF INDUSTRY’S ECONOMIC WOES (Feb. 19, 2016)
• Richard Prince with Charlayne Hunter-Gault,“PBS NewsHour,” “What stagnant diversity means for America’s newsrooms” (Dec. 15, 2015)
• Book Notes: Journalists Follow Their Passions
• Book Notes: Journalists Who Rocked Their World
• Book Notes: Hands Up! Read This!
• Book Notes: New Cosby Bio Looks Like a Best-Seller
• Journo-diversity advocate turns attention to Ezra Klein project (Erik Wemple, Washington Post, March 5, 2014)

Columns below from the Maynard Institute are not currently available but are scheduled to be restored soon on journal-isms.com.

• Book Notes: “Love, Peace and Soul!” And More
• Book Notes: Book Notes: Soothing the Senses, Shocking the Conscience
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2015
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2014
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2013
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2012
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2011
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2010
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2009
• Diversity’s Greatest Hits, 2008
• Book Notes: Books to Ring In the New Year
• Book Notes: In-Your-Face Holiday Reads
• Fishbowl Interview With the Fresh Prince of D.C. (Oct. 26, 2012)
• NABJ to Honor Columnist Richard Prince With Ida B. Wells Award (Oct. 11, 2012)
• So What Do You Do, Richard Prince, Columnist for the Maynard Institute? (Richard Horgan, FishbowlLA, Aug. 22, 2012)
• Book Notes: Who Am I? What’s Race Got to Do With It?: Journalists Explore Identity
• Book Notes: Catching Up With Books for the Fall
• Richard Prince Helps Journalists Set High Bar (Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com, 2011)
• Book Notes: 10 Ways to Turn Pages This Summer
• Book Notes: 7 for Serious Spring Reading
• Book Notes: 7 Candidates for the Journalist’s Library
• Book Notes: 9 That Add Heft to the Bookshelf
• Five Minutes With Richard Prince (Newspaper Association of America, 2005)
• ‘Journal-isms’ That Engage and Inform Diverse Audiences (Q&A with Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter Institute, 2008)Chrissie Gale, Jennifer Davidson and Nigel Cantwell, the Conversation: Child migrants around the world are being denied their human rights