Feature ArticlesFeatured News Guild Links Capitol Siege With Media Literacy, Newsroom Cuts and RacismrichardJanuary 10, 2021January 19, 2021 by richardJanuary 10, 2021January 19, 202116494 Leaders of the national union for print journalists say they see a direct link between the mob takeover of the U.S. Capitol and white supremacy,...
Articles FeatureMSNBC’s Rashida Jones Breaks Glass CeilingrichardDecember 7, 2020December 13, 2022 by richardDecember 7, 2020December 13, 202206963 No Black journalist has ascended to heading a mainstream network or a news division -- until now...
Articles FeatureMiami Herald Names First Black Top EditorrichardDecember 7, 2020December 8, 2020 by richardDecember 7, 2020December 8, 202005108 Monica R. Richardson of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been named the first Black executive editor of The Miami Herald,...
Articles FeatureFeatured Black Medics Seek Journalists’ Help on COVIDrichardDecember 6, 2020December 8, 2020 by richardDecember 6, 2020December 8, 202006212 Black medical experts reach out to Black journalists for help with transmitting facts on COVID, vaccine....
Articles FeatureCongress’ Latinos Eye N.Y. Times DiversityrichardNovember 22, 2020November 24, 2020 by richardNovember 22, 2020November 24, 202004598 The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is meeting with The New York Times "to discuss the lack of adequate Latino representation"...
Articles FeatureA Comic That’s as Serious as a VirusrichardNovember 19, 2020November 20, 2020 by richardNovember 19, 2020November 20, 202004150 Beliefs that Blacks could not get COVID-19 are part of a historical pattern of racism that African Americans themselves were helping to spread....
Articles FeatureDid Media Enable Black Men in Drinking Trump’s Kool-Aid?richardNovember 11, 2020November 12, 2020 by richardNovember 11, 2020November 12, 202003255 if so many Black men drank Trum's Kool-Aid, how much can be attributed to the news media -- and how much to a lack of...
Articles FeatureL.A. Times Settles Bias Suit for $3 MillionrichardNovember 11, 2020November 12, 2020 by richardNovember 11, 2020November 12, 202003488 Los Angeles Times and Tribune Publishing agree to pay $3 million to multiethnic group of journalists,...
Articles FeatureWhite Supremacy Was on the BallotrichardNovember 6, 2020November 8, 2020 by richardNovember 6, 2020November 8, 202004760 The connection of the large vote for Trump with his embrace of white supremacy was barely mentioned....
Articles FeatureEditor Quits Miami Herald for Book PublishingrichardOctober 29, 2020October 30, 2020 by richardOctober 29, 2020October 30, 202004129 Aminda Marqués González, who has led the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald, is leaving the organization for Simon & Schuster...
Articles FeatureFeatured Black Producer to Succeed Fired ABC ExecrichardOctober 28, 2020October 30, 2020 by richardOctober 28, 2020October 30, 202007003 ABC News has chosen Galen Gordon, a former ESPN coordinating producer, to succeed the disgraced Barbara Fedida....
Articles FeatureNAHJ Leader’s Controversial FarewellrichardOctober 2, 2020October 4, 2020 by richardOctober 2, 2020October 4, 202003992 Hugo Balta, outgoing president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, is reproached by fellow board members after "inappropriately" endorsing his vice president/print to succeed...