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Line in Climate-Change Speech Turned on Its Head

Ebony Pledges to Pay Writers in 30 Days

‘Mission Accomplished’ as NABJ Touts Turnaround

Jefferson Named CBS News V.P. of Operations

Nooses, Painted ‘N-Word’ Add to Hateful Week

$150,000 to Train Investigative Journalists

Dallas Paper Wants Details in Ambush of Police

N.Y. Times Public Editor Departs With Warnings

Short Takes

Line in Climate-Change Speech Turned on Its Head

“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” President Donald Trump said Thursday in announcing that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

His supporters announced a “Pittsburgh, not Paris” rally across from the White House on Saturday to celebrate, Nick Juliano reported for Politico.

But the citizens of Pittsburgh, as represented via their media, appeared to want no part of Trump’s position.

” ‘Pittsburgh not Paris’ becomes call to action for Democrats and Republicans,” the Tribune-Review headlined on Friday.

“Owners of nearly 500 buildings in the city, plus many other private enterprises have signed on to carbon reduction initiatives that mirror the Paris Climate Accord, according to the Downtown-based nonprofit Green Building Alliance,” Bob Bauder reported for the newspaper.

Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto “on Friday issued an executive order reiterating his commitment to reducing the city’s carbon footprint a day after he blasted President Trump for mentioning Pittsburgh during a White House speech about his decision not to participate in the Paris Climate Accord. . . .”

Adalberto Toledo added for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “The city of Pittsburgh announced on Twitter Friday its intention to light up government buildings green in support of Mayor Bill Peduto’s Paris Agreement executive order.

“City Hall as well as bridges and other city buildings will light up green. . . .”

Editorially, the Post-Gazette was unequivocal on Thursday.

“President Donald Trump should not remove the United States from the Paris climate agreement.  . . . If the United States pulls out of the Paris accord, it simply won’t have a place at the table to negotiate the future of energy production and consumption and its effect on economic development. The best interests of America lie inside this decision-making tent. . . .”

Downstate, the Friday “Attytood” column by Will Bunch in the Philadelphia Daily News was headlined, “Trump to Pittsburgh: Drop dead. Again.”

Bunch wrote, “Carbon pollution nearly strangled Pittsburgh once. Today, Donald Trump’s phony concern for that city was actually another death threat — one that is more complicated yet also more insidious. But this much is certain: Dirty air, drought and rising sea levels are unaware of national boundaries.

“Citizens of Pittsburgh, Paris, Philadelphia, and Pretoria are all riding in the same leaky boat. It’s time for Captain Queeg at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to move away from the big wheel and let America’s cities, our states, and our true friends around the globe try to steer us to safe harbor.”

• Caribbean News Now!: Caribbean leaders condemn US withdrawal from Paris Climate Change Agreement
• Jill Colvin and Julie Pace, Associated Press: ‘I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris’: Trump pulling U.S. from global climate pact, dismaying allies
• Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa: These are the African cities most vulnerable to climate change
• Editorial, Boston Globe: Stay the course on climate, for the planet
• Editorial, Daily News, New York: Trump to World: Drop Dead! Prez’s jobs con not based in reality
• Editorial, Kansas City Star: Leading from the sidelines? Abandoning Paris climate deal a historic mistake
• Editorial, Miami Herald: The error of exiting the Paris Accord
• Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: By abandoning climate agreement, Trump abdicates U.S. moral leadership
• Dino Grandoni, Washington Post: The Energy 202: Trump’s Paris speech needs a serious fact check
• Peter Hannam, Sydney Morning Herald, Australia: Donald Trump’s call to ‘put America first’ by exiting Paris climate accord to backfire
• Terri Hansen, Indian Country Today: California Salmon and Trout in Peril: Study (May 24)
• Carolina Herrera, Natural Resources Defense Council: Latin America climate action critical after US Paris retreat
• Lily Kuo, Quartz Africa: The US withdrawal from the Paris climate accord will hit Africa the hardest
• Naomi Klein, Daily News, New York: Economic pressure could jolt Trump into action on climate change
• Media Matters for America: Before withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, Trump called a Fox News host for advice
• Stephen A. Nuño, NBC Latino: Trump Wrecks Our Environment and Latinos Will Be Cleaning Up the Mess
• Andrés Oppenheimer, Miami Herald: U.S. pullout from Paris climate accord will give rise to “anti-Trump” alliance
• Andrew Revkin, ProPublica: For Climate Cause, Trump’s Withdrawal from Paris Accord Just One Hurdle Among Many
• Eugene Robinson, Washington Post: Trump is abdicating all the country’s moral power
• Hiroko Tabuchi and Henry Fountain, New York Times: Bucking Trump, These Cities, States and Companies Commit to Paris Accord

Ebony Pledges to Pay Writers in 30 Days

Ebony’s lawyer promised Friday to pay the writers it owes within 30 days, the president of the National Writers Union told Journal-isms.

“They said they will pay off everything they owed, oldest invoices first, within 30 days of contract . . .,” Larry Goldbetter said by telephone after a conversation with Renee Lewis, Ebony’s general counsel.

However, Goldbetter added, “It didn’t sound like they have much of a plan.” He said the union is representing 14 writers who are owed $30,000.

Ebony officials have not responded to inquiries about the debts since early May.

Greg Dool, whose folio: site reports on magazines, wrote Thursday, “In a time of unprecedented attacks against the reputations of legacy media brands, the new owners of Ebony magazine are offering quite a case study in how not to handle a PR crisis. . . .”

• Ernest L. Owens, NBCBLK: #EbonyOwes: Why I Stopped Buying Ebony Magazine

Update:

NBCBLK received this statement from @EBONYMag: They say they ‘should have this issue resolved within the next 30 days’ #EbonyOwes pic.twitter.com/kbJZMx4Pix

— NBC BLK (@NBCBLK) June 3, 2017

‘Mission Accomplished’ as NABJ Touts Turnaround

The National Association of Black Journalists achieved its projected $1.2 million surplus for 2016 and is outpacing last year’s registrations for its upcoming August convention, executive consultant Drew Berry said Friday.

Berry, returning in 2015 after NABJ dismissed its executive director as part of cost-cutting to address a $400,000 deficit, told Facebook friends, “Mission accomplished with NABJ!”

Berry, a former television station manager and media consultant, helped to accomplish a similar turnaround for NABJ in 2010 and since then had been active in monitoring the organization’s finances, sometimes as part of a group of activist members critical of the association’s leadership.

He said on Facebook that he has accepted an offer to “Focus on new client and existing clients effective June 30.”

NABJ announced a national search for a permanent director, to be “led by the respected New York-based firm, Harris Rand Lusk, and will begin immediately,” an announcement said.

“Under the leadership of NABJ President Sarah Glover, Berry worked closely with NABJ staffers, and the NABJ board and members, to oversee a financial turnaround at the organization,” the statement continued.

“Berry will continue to provide consulting services to the NABJ until June 30. Former NABJ Executive Director JoAnne Lyons Wooten, who has led NABJ’s fundraising efforts the past two years as a consultant, will be NABJ’s point of contact until a permanent executive director is hired. . . .”

With 3,400 members, NABJ is the nation’s largest journalist of color organization. Berry said 1,379 people had registered for its Aug. 9-13 convention in New Orleans. That compares with 858 NABJ registrants by June 1, 2016, for last year’s convention in Washington, held jointly with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. June 1 was the pre-registration deadline.

Berry said in a telephone interview that the financial turnaround was accomplished by renegotiating all of NABJ’s 12 to 15 contracts, a successful marketing strategy for the D.C. convention, “knowing what our value is” in setting pricing strategies and creating “win, win, win” situations for NABJ, its members and partners, as the association prefers to call its sponsors.

The organization also signed a three-month contract with the Weber Shandwick communications agency, where NABJ member Brett Pulley, former dean of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University, is executive vice president and managing director, corporate content and media strategy.

The eight-member national NABJ office also now includes Angela Robinson, former Atlanta anchor and reporter, as a program manager, and Kerwin Speight, formerly community affairs manager at WRC-TV in Washington, as senior operations manager.

Jefferson Named CBS News V.P. of Operations

Rick Jefferson has been named vice president of news operations at CBS News, the network announced Thursday.

Jefferson, who has been director of production since March 2016, reports to CBS News President David Rhodes.

“In his new position, Jefferson will be responsible for the division’s technical personnel and facilities worldwide, including Hard News, Prime Time and Public Affairs,” the announcement said.

“Jefferson will oversee CBS News’ bureaus and operations for coverage of such events as conventions, elections and presidential trips. He’ll also be responsible for exploring the latest technologies and lead the design of advanced broadcast technology for CBS News. . . .”

Nooses, Painted ‘N-Word’ Add to Hateful Week

A noose found hanging inside “a shrine to black history” in the nation’s capital and a spray-painted racial slur at a home of one of sports’ biggest icons provided grist for commentary at the end of a week that “has been especially bad,” in the words of Eliott C. McLaughlin, reporting Thursday for CNN.

“The hate keeps coming.”

“Two nooses were found at Smithsonian museums in the past week, one outside the Hirshhorn Museum last Friday and one inside the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on Wednesday,” Jesse J. Holland reported Thursday for the Associated Press.

Philip Kennicott, the Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architecture critic, explored the idea Thursday of displaying the noose found in the African American museum as an example of living history.

He concluded, “The museum has what it needs, which is proof of an ongoing history of cultural violence, and that shameful object has already begun its permanent transmogrification into a museum piece.”

After a racial slur was found painted on the front gates of his Los Angeles-area home, NBA superstar LeBron James said Wednesday at a news conference, “No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is — it’s tough,” Scott Cacciola and Jonah Engel Bromwich reported Wednesday for the New York Times.

“And we got a long way to go for us as a society and for us as African-Americans until we feel equal in America.”

The statement was red meat for some. “Earlier today, Fox Sports 1′s Jason Whitlock took issue with [LeBron] James speaking about racism, because he believes he hasn’t really dealt with it — because he’s rich and it’s only a problem for poor people,” (video) “Black Adam Schefter” wrote Friday for totalprosports.com.

“He also accused LeBron of making his comments solely for the benefit of ‘Twitter and social media.’

“A few hours later, Jason Whitlock then had Colin Cowherd and Chris Broussard on his show ‘Speak For Yourself,’ and he got into a heated debate with Broussard as he refused to apologize for what he said earlier. In fact, he expanded even more on his original comments.”

Separately, the Charlotte Observer editorialized Tuesday that “the president’s slow response to publicly comment on hateful acts committed by someone other than ‘radical Islamic terrorists’ is far less disturbing than what the Trump administration is planning to do to civil rights enforcement. . . .”

• Rekha Basu, Des Moines Register: ‘I’m sorry the world is so cruel.’ Portland stabbings highlight power of hateful narratives 
• Jerry Brewer, Washington Post: Racist vandals didn’t demean LeBron James. They gave him a platform for dialogue.
• Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post: Sadly, LeBron James is right: ‘Being black in America is tough’
• Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com: More graffiti on LeBron’s L.A. home (cartoon and text)
• Petula Dvorak, Washington Post: Our ugly racism’s newest artifact: The noose left at the African American Museum
• Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press: Nooses showing up more in hate incidents around country
• Roy S. Johnson, al.com: Charles Barkley on Portland hate attacks vs LeBron James racial vandalism: “That’s real s..t
• Philip Kennicott, Washington Post: What to do with the noose left at the African American Museum? Make it part of the collection.
• Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress: These ICE posters going around DC are very, very fake
• Ruben Navarrette Jr., Washington Post Writers Group: Reaching new lows of uncivility
• Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune: White House sends a ho-hum message to haters
• Carron J. Phillips, Daily News, New York: LeBron James isn’t even safe from being called an ‘N-word
• Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post: Sneaking a noose into a museum is a hateful act — and a cowardly one
• Steven Ruiz, USA Today: Jason Whitlock’s take on LeBron James and racism is his stupidest one yet
• Deborah Simmons, Washington Times: Sticks, stones, nooses and bloodshed

$150,000 to Train Investigative Journalists

“The Ida B. Wells Society is receiving a $150,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to expand its training programs aimed at supporting journalists of color, Knight announced on Thursday,” Joseph Lichterman reported for Nieman Lab.

“Launched in 2016, and named for the esteemed 19th century investigative journalist Ida B. Wells, the organization was founded to provide training and mentorship for reporters — of journalists of color who want to be doing [investigative] reporting, but don’t see a path for themselves and have never seen other journalists of color doing this job,” New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the Ida B. Wells Society’s co-founders, told my colleague Ricardo Bilton earlier this year. . . .”

Dallas Paper Wants Details in Ambush of Police

The Dallas Morning News is asking a federal court to release details of last July’s ambush killing of five Dallas and Dallas Area Rapid Transit police officers in a standoff that ended with the suspect killed by a bomb-carrying police robot.

“Often when great crimes like these happen, a trial follows in which lawyers and government officials sift through the endless details of the events leading to the crime, and produce a narrative that explains if not why things happened, then certainly how they happened and in what order and with what consequences,” the Morning News editorialized on Thursday.

“That has not happened here, largely because Micah Johnson, the architect of our anguish, was killed by police before the sun rose after the night of the murders.

“Johnson remains unlamented here. But with his death, a silence has gathered over that night’s events. Legitimate questions — including about Chief David Brown’s nationally unprecedented decision to order the use of a robot to kill Johnson — have not yet been addressed. . . .”

The editorial also said, “We urge the judge to give full weight to the city’s right to see unvarnished and unredacted everything investigators have learned about the horror visited upon Dallas last July 7, and about the heroism that rose up to meet it.

“Here’s a sampling of information The Dallas Morning News has requested that has been denied or blocked by the Dallas Police Department:

“Transcripts and recordings of the negotiations with Micah Johnson
“All camera and surveillance footage of the July 7 incident
“All Dallas Area Rapid Transit police reports related to the shooting
“Medical examiner’s autopsy and investigative report”

• Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Morning News: How and why Dallas police decided to use a bomb to end the standoff with lone gunman (July 9, 2016)

N.Y. Times Public Editor Departs With Warnings

“There probably hasn’t been a time in recent American history when the role of the media was more important than now,” Liz Spayd wrote Friday in her final column as New York Times public editor. “The Trump administration is drowning in scandal, the country is calcified into two partisan halves.

“And large newsrooms are faced with a choice: to maintain an independent voice, but one as aggressive and unblinking as the days of Watergate. Or to morph into something more partisan, spraying ammunition at every favorite target and openly delighting in the chaos.

“If I think back to one subject I’ve harped on the most as public editor over the last year, this is probably it. Digital disruption and collapsing business models get all the attention, but the prospect of major media losing its independence, and its influence, ranks equally high among the industry’s perils.

“Derision may feel more satisfying, but in the long run stories that are measured in tone are more powerful. Whether journalists realize it or not, with impartiality comes authority — and right now it’s in short supply. . . .”

Spayd also wrote, “Media pundits and many readers this week were questioning the decision to end this role, fearing that without it, no one will have the authority, insider perspective or ability to demand answers from top Times editors. There’s truth in that. But it overlooks a larger issue.

“It’s not really about how many critics there are, or where they’re positioned, or what Times editor can be rounded up to produce answers. It’s about having an institution that is willing to seriously listen to that criticism, willing to doubt its impulses and challenge the wisdom of the inner sanctum.

“Having the role was a sign of institutional integrity, and losing it sends an ambiguous signal: Is the leadership growing weary of such advice or simply searching for a new model? We’ll find out soon enough. . . .”

• Kelly McBride, Poynter Institute: The New York Times killed the public editor job just when it’s needed most
• Joe Strupp, Media Matters for America: Did the NY Times forget the “long trail of deception” that spurred hiring a public editor in the first place?
• David Uberti and Pete Vernon, Columbia Journalism Review: Podcast: The end of the public editor at The New York Times
• Erik Wemple, Washington Post: New York Times doesn’t need a public editor. The TV news outlets do.

Short Takes

• ProPublica has chosen the 12 journalists who will participate in its Data Institute, an all-expenses-paid two-week workshop “that teaches journalists how to use data, design and coding for their own stories.”  “This year we are excited to be partnering with the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting,” which seeks to increase the number of journalists of color in that specialty, the organization says.
• “A pro-Trump journalist and political activist sued a Fusion reporter in federal court in Washington, DC, Thursday, the most serious action yet in the emerging conflict between mainstream news outlets and the insurgent conservative media that has set up shop in the nation’s capital,” Joseph Bernstein reported Thursday for BuzzFeed.  ” . . . [L]awyers for Cassandra Fairbanks allege that Emma Roller, the Fusion journalist, defamed their client when she tweeted an image of Fairbanks at the White House making what Roller claimed in a caption is a ‘white power hand gesture.’ . . .”
• “MSNBC confirms that Lawrence O’Donnell has re-upped with MSNBC following down-to-the-wire contentious contract negotiations,” Chris Ariens reported Thursday for TVNewser. “O’Donnell’s current deal was to expire Sunday. . . .”
• “Unlike almost every major city in the United States, New Orleans allows neighborhoods to boost local tax bills to pay for extra protection – but the money isn’t shared with poorer sections of the city,” Emily Siegel, Kara Chin and Deonna Anderson reported Thursday for the NYCity News Service of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. They also wrote, “The disparities represent an open wound in a city still battling back nearly a dozen years after Hurricane Katrina forever scarred the Big Easy. . . .”
• The Dallas Morning News Friday endorsed “an inaugural business entrepreneur contest that teams the University of North Texas at Dallas with Bishop T.D. Jakes to build skills and business experience for the next generation of innovators and job creators. It won’t change Dallas overnight, but it is a smart way to tap and possibly convert the innovative talents of bright youngsters into potentially marketable and profitable products and services,” an editorial said.
• The Houston Chronicle has begun a narrative series, in real time, called “Out of Time,” in which Olivia P. Tallet “will tell the story of a Houston family riven by the Trump administration’s roundup of undocumented immigrants,” Managing Editor Vernon Loeb told Facebook friends on Saturday. “Juan Rodriguez is one of 286,000 undocumented in Greater Houston. . . . He’d been allowed to check in annually with immigration authorities and has a legal work permit. But at this year’s check-in in February everything changed. He’s now awaiting deportation to El Salvador on June 29. . . .”
• “Ricco” J.L. Martello, a photographer for the New Pittsburgh Courier, helped save lives as a fire quickly spread through the Midtown Towers apartments in that city on May 15, Rob Taylor Jr. reported for the paper. Martello, called 911, “made entry into the building and began banging on doors to wake up the residents,” and helped one senior citizen “down five flights of steps to safety. . . ” One woman, 75, died.
• The Boston Globe revisited “The forgotten riot that sparked Boston’s racial unrest” on Friday with a story by Akilah Johnson. “Fifty years ago today, 3 days of riots convulsed Roxbury, as the civil rights tumult of the ’60s finally reached here. It was the violent beginning to an era of change whose end is still not in sight,” a headline said.
• Francisco Vara-Orta, data specialist and staff writer at Education Week, has been elected vice president of journalists of the Education Writers Association and Dakarai Aarons, vice president of strategic communications of the Data Quality Campaign, was re-elected vice president/community members. Greg Toppo, education writer at USA Today, is president.
• In North Carolina, “Cox Media Group, which owns and operates ABC affiliate WSOC channel 9, launched Telemundo Charlotte today at 6 a.m. ET. — the first full-power high definition Spanish-language local broadcast station in the Charlotte DMA,” Veronica Villafañe reported Thursday for her Media Moves site.

• 

  “The Times-Picayune and Telemundo 42 have forged a content partnership to create NOLA Mundo, a Spanish-language news and information source for the New Orleans area’s rapidly growing Hispanic community,” Veronica Villafañe reported Friday for her Media Moves site. “Maria Clark, who has worked as a correspondent for the New York Daily News and NOLA.com, will lead content production for the project. . . .”

• The killing of journalists in Mexico should concern Americans, the Arizona Republic and azcentral.com editorialized on May 20. “In his May 18 meeting with high level Mexican officials,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson “made it clear that the problem Mexico faces with drug cartels and violence is a result of the America’s ‘pervasive demand’ for illegal drugs. ‘We Americans must own this problem. It is ours,’ Tillerson said. . . .”
• “Authorities in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo must undertake a swift investigation into the attack on journalist Carlos Barrios,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. An unidentified man threatened Barrios, who reports for the news website Aspectos,” and cut off part of his ear with a knife, his editor Eduardo Rascón told CPJ. . . .”
• “The Mexican government has implemented several programs and laws over the past few years designed to keep journalists safe and punish those who commit the crimes,” Michael Rios reported Thursday for the “PBS NewsHour.” “The problem is that very few of these programs actually get results, said Artur Romeu, communication coordinator for the press freedom group Reporters Without Borders. . . .”
• A typical episode of Journal Rappé begins with Senegalese rapper Makhtar ‘Xuman’ Fall and his co-host, Cheikh ‘Keyti’ Sene, “who raps in Wolof, one of Senegal’s primary local languages, have been friends for 20 years,” Marie Doezema reported Friday for Columbia Journalism Review. “They launched Journal Rappé on YouTube in 2013 and quickly gained a loyal following, averaging 45,000 weekly views. Their goal, they say, was to make national and international politics resonate with young people. . . .”
• Morocco has signed the “Declaration on Media Freedom, supported by hundreds of representatives of journalists unions, broadcasters, human rights organisations and press freedom groups,” the International Federation of Journalists reported on Thursday. “. . . This signature is a milestone in the ongoing campaign to establish a Special Mechanism for Media Freedom in the Arab World,” said Younes Mjahed, IFJ senior vice president.
• Morocco deported Algerian journalist Djamel Alilat on Tuesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported on Thursday. CPJ noted that “Morocco and Algeria have strained relations, in part because of Algeria’s support for the independence of the Western Sahara region, which Morocco considers to be its southern provinces.”
• “Authorities in the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland should immediately release Mohamed Adan Dirir, the editor of the online news portal Horseed Media,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. “Mohamed has been jailed without charge since Somaliland Health Minister Saleban Isee ordered police to arrest him after he asked a question at a May 24 press conference. . . .”

• “A Venezuelan court on May 31 fined the independent news website La Patilla the equivalent of U.S.$500,000 for republishing a 2015 story from a Spanish newspaper alleging that a top Venezuelan official had ties to drug trafficking, according to news reports,” the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Friday. “A civil court judge in Caracas declared that La Patilla had inflicted ‘moral damage’ on Diosdado Cabello, a former vice president and a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro, according to news reports. . . .”

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