Critical Report Appears on Own Websites

USA Today Has Its First Publisher of Color

Sun-Times Wants R. Kelly to ‘Pay the Price’

From Coates: ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’

Latest Falsehood: Black Support for Trump Doubled

Cox Names Sharon Wilmore Editor in Ohio

Elias Lopez Gets International Opinions Post

Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Citizens Drop

Ex-NBC Newsman Living in Homeless Shelter

Short Takes

Critical Report Appears on Own Websites

“This is the story of how corporate raiding, complacency, excess, and incompetence are gutting a media company that matters to tens of millions of people,” began a story by Kate Conger, David Uberti and Laura Wagner.

“It’s not a novel story, and perhaps not even scandalous by the standards of corporate opulence: A shark-obsessed boss, millions wasted on consultants, and an executive who insisted on publishing softcore porn are more embarrassing buffoonery than insidious greed. The main problem — the billions in debt the company ran up in the process of its owners buying it and weighing it down — is practically routine in media and beyond; that doesn’t make it any less infuriating.

“This company is Univision, which until recently obligingly filled the role of absentee stepfather to Gizmodo Media Group, our employer. Now, Univision’s business is struggling, and GMG has suddenly found itself under a very watchful eye.

“Once upon a time, Univision, an American broadcasting operation aimed primarily at Spanish speakers in the United States, was a tremendous golden goose laying tremendous golden eggs: It made incredible amounts of money and had to do essentially nothing for it other than run programming produced by Televisa, a Mexican broadcasting operation. The fairy tale ended long ago. Univision has been in decline for years, thanks to a disastrous private equity buyout finalized in 2007; an aging audience; a burdensome program-licensing deal with Televisa; competition from Telemundo and Netflix; layers of overpaid and useless middle management; and a general failure to position itself for a digital future. . . .”

Laura Hazard Owen wrote about this remarkable piece Tuesday for Nieman Lab:

“It’s high season for newsrooms writing critically about their owners, apparently. First, The Denver Post’s editorial page called its owners, Digital First Media and Alden Global Capital, ‘vulture capitalists.’ And now comes a Gizmodo Media Group exposé into its parent company, Univision.

“The piece, published Tuesday, was published across all of the GMG sites (including Deadspin, Jezebel, and The Root). In the piece, three GMG employees — Kate Conger, David Uberti, and Laura Wagner — write about how Univision’s ‘corporate raiding, complacency, excess, and incompetence are gutting a media company that matters to tens of millions of people.’

“ ‘Despite the debt hanging over Univision’s head, the company indulged a culture of complacency and excess, embodied in many ways by the operations of Fusion Media Group, an ill-fated attempt to stay relevant in the digital age,’ they write. ‘And now that the ship is off course, the rival interests in the company are at each other’s throats, in some cases diving off the ship and in some cases teaming up to force enemies off the gangplank.’

“Some depressing digital bits from the piece:

” — Big cuts have either already happened or are coming. Gizmodo Media Group staff ‘fears the newsroom may be cut by up to a third by the end of June.’

” — Fusion has become “one of the most spectacular digital media failures in recent memory’ . . .”

USA Today Has Its First Publisher of Color

After this year’s controversial White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president of the USA Today Network and publisher of USA Today, sent a letter to Margaret Talev, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, urging that “the tenor and format of the event must change.”

“Like you, I am a daughter of immigrants, and it is that life experience that informs my commitment to protecting our democracy through journalistic excellence,” Wadsworth wrote.

But Wadsworth is more than just a daughter of immigrants. “USA TODAY has named Maribel Perez Wadsworth as its publisher, the second woman to hold the title,” Mike Snider reported April 5 for USA Today. Wadsworth, a Cuban-American, is the first person of color to serve as publisher.

“Wadsworth, 45, has served as the flagship news organization’s associate publisher since November 2017 when publisher John Zidich announced his upcoming retirement. Zidich officially retired earlier this month.

“She will remain president of the USA TODAY NETWORK, which has 109 local media properties, a position she has also held for the last six months. . . .”

Snider also wrote, “A native of Miami, Wadsworth joined Gannett more than 20 years ago after graduating from the University of Miami. She began her career at the Associated Press, then began covering agriculture at the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star. Subsequently, at The News-Press in Fort Myers (Fla.), Wadsworth was a reporter and held several editor positions including managing editor for more than three years until July 2009. . . .

“Early in her career, as the only Spanish-speaking reporter at the Register Star, she covered Rockford’s migrant worker community and a business district of Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs. . . .”

After decades of abuse allegations, R. Kelly’s accusers ask whether his music will finally stop. (Credit: Whitney Leaming, Sarah Hashemi/ Washington Post) (video)

Sun-Times Wants R. Kelly to ‘Pay the Price’

“Dec. 21, 2000, was the day that then-Sun-Times reporters Jim DeRogatis and Abdon Pallasch broke the story of R. Kelly’s sexual pursuit of underage girls,” the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized on Tuesday.

“Not many people wanted to hear it back then. We took some flak for publishing it. . . .”

The Sun-Times also wrote, “Kelly’s now the target of #MuteRKelly, a campaign founded by two young Atlanta activists that is determined to make him pay the price for years of abusive behavior toward young black girls. Under pressure from them, the University of Illinois at Chicago cancelled Kelly’s scheduled May 5 concert here. Meanwhile, radio DJs are refusing to play his music, and his publicist, lawyer and executive assistant severed ties with him.

“The singer once said his fans were the only ones who could fire him. It’s time, way past time, for them to finish the job.

“If you’re thinking of buying a ticket to one of his shows or downloading one of his songs, go read the two decades of reporting on him — in the Sun-Times and elsewhere — before you do. You’ll probably want to take several showers afterward. But those stories will save you some money, if you’re smart.

“The Pied Piper of R&B won’t get his just desserts until he doesn’t make another penny from his music.”

The editorial followed a 5,500-word front-page story in Sunday’s print edition of the Washington Post.

“For more than two decades, the recording industry turned a blind eye to Kelly’s behavior as his career continued to thrive and he was afforded every luxury of a chart-topping superstar,” Geoff Edgers wrote Friday in the online version.

“A Washington Post investigation found that this disregard for the singer’s alleged behavior played out on many levels, from the billionaire record executive who first signed the dynamic young vocalist in the early 1990s to the low-paid assistants who arranged flights, food and bathroom breaks for his traveling entourage of young women.

“Six women once connected with Kelly spoke to The Post about what they say were abusive relationships. Two of those women, Tracy Sampson and Patrice Jones, have never publicly spoken about him before. . . .”

• Dan Rys, Billboard: Spotify Removes R. Kelly Music From Its Playlists As Part of New Hate Content & Hateful Conduct Policy: Exclusive

From Coates: ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’

“A week ago, Kanye West said that 400 years of slavery was a ‘choice,’ appearing to blame enslaved black people for not freeing themselves sooner,” Meagan Flynn reported Tuesday for the Washington Post.

“He said that the discussion about putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill made him want ‘to use Bitcoin,’ because, ‘It’s like when you see all the slave movies: Why you gotta keep reminding us about slavery?’ And West said that certain black icons such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are ‘just too far in the past and not relatable and that’s what makes them safe.’

“The comments came in a 105-minute interview with Charlamagne Tha God and in a follow-up interview with TMZ. All of it was in the name of being a ‘free thinker,’ West said.

“That much may be true, wrote the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates in the Atlantic on Monday — but that freedom of thought champions a certain kind of freedom, Coates wrote: a ‘white freedom.’

“Coates is a National Book Award winner for ‘Between the World and Me’ and national correspondent for the Atlantic, writing most frequently about social issues affecting black people in America.

“Coates’s latest essay, ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye,’ reads like a eulogy for something lost at the same time that it is a takedown of West for his ‘ignorance,’ which Coates described as ‘not merely deep, but also dangerous.’ He compares West to both President Trump and Michael Jackson. And he laments West’s evolution from a hip-hop revolutionary — ‘a god’ who ‘made music for them, for the young and futuristic’ — to a revolutionary who is also a blustery ‘mouthpiece’ for the types of theories and beliefs that play down racism in America.

“Coates joins Snoop Dogg, Janelle Monae, Jordan Peele, John Legend, Samuel L. Jackson and others in condemning West’s comments. None have done so as systematically as Coates, a master essayist. . . .”

• Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times: Kanye West and Rudy Giuliani: The mouths that recklessly roared
• Gene Demby, “Code Switch,” NPR: What The Kanye Controversy Can Teach Us About Black Voters
• Editorial, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Kanye’s unique take on slavery (Fourth item)
• Gerrick D. Kennedy and August Brown, Los Angeles Times: Could Kanye West’s latest backlash put his career in the sunken place?
• Vanzetta Penn McPherson, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: Hey EJI, give Kanye West a lifetime pass to the Legacy Museum so he can get an education
• Phillip Morris, Plain Dealer, Cleveland: Kanye West has a thing or two to learn about American slavery
• Michael Paul Williams, Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch: Kanye perpetuates the myth of the happy slave. Why that matters.

Latest Falsehood: Black Support for Trump Doubled

“President Trump recently bragged about his support among African Americans, saying his poll numbers had ‘doubled,’ ” Brian Stelter reported Wednesday for CNNMoney. “His claim has been repeated thousands of times on TV and online. Some media figures have treated it as fact. But it’s not. The news organization responsible for the poll, Reuters, says its data is being misconstrued.

“Here’s the story of how it happened — showing how right-wing web sites, Trump supporters on social media, and the president spread misleading information so easily.

“This matters because Trump supporters were left with the impression that the president is gaining support from African Americans, an idea that is not backed up by data.

“(CNN’s latest poll conducted by SSRS has Trump at just 7% approval among African Americans. The last time CNN polled, in March, it was at 11%.) . . .”

• Mary C. Curtis, Roll Call: What Is the Cost When the Language of Politics Devolves?
• Albor Ruiz, Al Dia, Philadelphia: Trump Betrays Hondurans

Cox Names Sharon Wilmore Editor in Ohio

“Sharon Wilmore, a veteran of more than two decades of news experience in Michigan and Ohio, has been named as the new Springfield News-Sun editor and chief of Cox Media Group Ohio’s Clark County Bureau,” the News-Sun reported Sunday.

“Wilmore has been a manager guiding community reporters and crime coverage for the Dayton Daily News since 2014. She joined CMGO on the copy desk in 2010 after 12 years as an editor for the Detroit Free Press on lifestyle and community coverage. She has been active in numerous industry diversity efforts, edited special projects, been a literacy tutor and remains active with the Delta Sigma Theta public service sorority. . . .”

Elias Lopez Gets International Opinions Post

“The Washington Post has named Elias Lopez the senior editor for international opinions,” the Post announced on Monday.

“In this new role, Lopez will oversee the strategy and operations for the section and lead planning of new international opinion ventures. He joins from the New York Times, where he most recently served as editorial director and founder of the New York Times en Español. . . .”

“ ‘As we continue to expand our international opinions section, we will add more perspectives on global news of interest to new readers and subscribers around the world,’ said Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt. ‘Elias will play a key role in helping us achieve this. We are so fortunate to be able to add his ideas and digital expertise to our section.’

“Lopez worked as an editor at The New York Times for more than 10 years and held positions on its national, foreign and opinions desks. Before joining The Times, he was a reporter and editor at The Miami Herald. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela. . . .”

Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Citizens Drop

“The number of deadly police shootings of unarmed people has generally declined since 2015 even as the tally of fatal shootings by law enforcement is on pace to hit nearly 1,000 for the fourth year in a row, according to data gathered by The Washington Post,” John Sullivan, Julie Tate and Jennifer Jenkins reported Monday for the Post.

“Fatal shootings of unarmed black men — such as the high-profile case in March of Stephon Clark in Sacramento — are among the kinds of killings that have fallen. Criminologists said the downturn in the number of cases and their analysis of the data indicate that evidence of racial bias by police who shoot and kill unarmed blacks has also declined but not disappeared. . . .”

Meanwhile, George Joseph and Liam Quigley reported Wednesday for the Intercept, “Despite being only a small fraction of the force, many police killings are carried out by on-duty officers who are not wearing uniforms.

“An analysis by The Intercept, using data from the Fatal Encounters project, found that plainclothes cops play a role in such killings disproportionate to their relatively small numbers among the NYPD’s ranks. Plainclothes police have been involved in nearly a third of all fatal shooting incidents recorded since 2000, according to The Intercept study. . . .”

• Editorial, Kansas City Star: Ciara Howard didn’t have to die in a police shooting. Here’s where law enforcement went wrong
• Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press: Calling cops on people because of race should be a crime
• Fabiola Santiago, Miami Herald: George Zimmerman proves that he’s an angry man who got away with murder

Ex-NBC Newsman Living in Homeless Shelter

“Once upon a time in New York City, Sherman Jackson lived at the glittering heights of public life in a privileged place of bold-faced names and media stars,” Greg B. Smith reported Sunday for the Daily News in New York.

“For a time, he appeared on TV sets citywide as a newsman at NBC. Later he appeared on-air as a press secretary for some of the biggest politicians in the city.

“The schools chancellor. The parks commissioner. Controller candidate Herman Badillo. He stood in front of cameras and parried with reporters, shaping the narrative of the city itself.

“From the 1970s into 2000, Jackson’s quotes appeared in every newspaper in town. In the pre-internet era, he was interviewed countless times on radio and TV.

“He carried an impressive address book filed with the private numbers of big name politicians who relied on his advice. He spoke with the authority of a major player, a savvy insider.

“And then it all went south.

“Things happened. Situations changed. Life, as it sometimes does, took a turn, and Jackson came to realize that for some of us, everything you think you will have forever suddenly isn’t there anymore.

“And so on Friday, Jackson, now 70 years old, awoke once again in a big open dormitory room along with 24 other men, a resident of a city-run homeless shelter hard by the entrance to the BQE [Brooklyn–Queens Expressway] . . . .”

Smith also wrote, “Half Puerto Rican, half white, he went to work on-air for NBC’s local affiliate on Channel Four in 1971 at the age of 21 fresh out of Columbia Journalism School. He later jumped to Channel Five, which was then owned by a now-defunct company called Metro Media. From there he jumped into public relations. . . .”

• Reuven Blau, Daily News, New York: Former political aide living in shelter wants to help de Blasio fix city’s homeless crisis

Short Takes

• Who’s right? On Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” anchor Lester Holt introduced its lead story on President Trump pulling out of the Iran agreement on nuclear weapons, saying, “Tonight, shock waves around the world.” However, the Washington Post had led Tuesday’s print edition with “Trump expected to impede Iran deal,” and the CBC’s “As It Happens” called the decision “surprising no one but disappointing many.”

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  When the Rev. James H. Cone died at 79 on April 28, “his name meant little or nothing to most Americans,” Samuel G. Freedman, a former New York Times religion writer, wrote Monday in the Washington Post. “Yet as his funeral is held Monday, it is also true that Cone stood as one of the most influential religious figures of the past century in America, a clarion voice for justice who deserves to be placed in the historical company of Reinhold Niebuhr, Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. During a half-century as a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Cone formulated and espoused ‘a black theology of liberation,’ as he titled his seminal 1970 book. . . .”

• “I challenge my public radio colleagues to conduct a comprehensive analysis of racial inequities in our content, past and present,” Jennifer Dargan, John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, wrote Monday for Current.org. “I’m proud of our reporting, and I’ve been a fan for much longer than I’ve worked in public radio. But I recognize that we don’t always get things right. An analysis of our content could reveal how our perspectives have been limited, when we have elevated white people to expert status over people of color, and when we have used biased language. . . .”
• Malika Andrews, James Reston Reporting Fellow at the New York Times, “will be covering the Bulls and the NBA for us,” Joe Knowles, associate managing editor, sports at the Chicago Tribune, confirmed Tuesday. “She’ll team up with K.C. Johnson on that beat. The Bulls are a big audience draw for us and we see room for expansion and growth there.” Andrews joins the Washington Post’s Candace Buckner as the only two black women covering the NBA full-time as beat writers.
• “You can imagine, in this dismal media landscape, my surprise at this episode of Roseanne,” Yemeni-American Mokhtar Alkhanshali, whose story is chronicled in the bestselling “The Monk of Mokha” by Dave Eggers, wrote Wednesday in the Daily News of New York. “For the first time in my life, I saw a family on national TV who looked like my family, spoke like my family, and acted like my family. There were no sleeper cells or magical lamps. Instead, a simple story of neighbors sharing each other’s wifi. . . .” The television series used President Trump’s travel ban as a plot device.
• This year marks the 15th anniversary of the magazine Black Business Ink, Fran Daniel wrote Tuesday in the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal. Publisher Richard L. Williams, president and chief executive of Black Business Media LLC, a communications company, was the editor of the Winston-Salem Chronicle, and had worked as a reporter at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and as a reporter and editor at Gannett Westchester Newspapers in White Plains, N.Y. He then went into public relations and advertising. He describes the free publication as a “hybrid between Black Enterprise and Ebony (magazines).”

• 

  Mohammed Hadi is joining the New York Times’ Business Day section as news director, a new position, business editor Ellen Pollock announced on Tuesday. “Mo comes to us from Business Insider, where he is executive editor and oversees financial, markets and companies coverage. In his new gig, he’ll put his digital experience to work, helping to coordinate coverage as we strive to make our report faster and more responsive to the needs of our audience, both online and in print. . . .”

• The National Center on Disability and Journalism is accepting entries for the 2018 Ruderman Foundation Awards for Excellence in Reporting on Disability. “This award is the only journalism contest devoted exclusively to disability coverage,” an announcement says. “More than $20,000 in cash awards will be given to first-, second- and third-place winners in large media and small media categories. . . .” Entries accepted until Aug. 6.
• “In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, PBS is presenting six compelling documentaries on public television this May through the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM),” Randall Yip reported Saturday for AsAmNews. “Three of these films, Finding Kukan, Random Acts of Legacy and Who is Arthur Chu? will premiere on season 6 of America ReFramed, an award-winning documentary series on public television. Resistance at Tule Lake and The Chinese Exclusion Act will screen on PBS and WORLD Channel. The CAAM-produced Pacific Gateway: Angel Island VR will air digitally on PBS’s American Experience. Check your local listings for exact air dates and times. . . .”

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  “To honor the memory of pioneering filmmaker Jacquie Jones, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will provide a grant of $300,000 for the Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarship Fund to help aspiring diverse filmmakers produce content for public media,” CPB announced on Tuesday. “Black Public Media will administer the scholarship program. . . . Jones, who passed away in January at age 52, was an award-winning filmmaker who served as executive director from 2005-2014 of National Black Programming Consortium, what is now Black Public Media. . . .”

• “After careful consideration, it was recommended by ESPN’s Editorial Board to discontinue the position of Public Editor (originally begun as an Ombudsman),” Kevin Merida, ESPN senior vice president, editor-in-chief of the Undefeated and chair of ESPN’s editorial board, announced. “In recent years, both the Washington Post and the New York Times eliminated their Ombudsman role in recognition that the position had outlived its usefulness, largely because of the rise of real-time feedback of all kinds. . . .” Jim Brady, the last to hold the job, wrote his final column on March 23.
• Mark Trahant, soon to take over as editor of Indian Country Today, “is about to launch his own national television show and was in Alaska last week, to produce some episodes,” Rhonda McBride reported Monday for KTVA-TV in Anchorage, Alaska. “One will profile Alaska Native women in politics. Another will look at Alaska Pacific University’s transformation into a tribal college. The show will begin airing at the end of May on FNX, the First Nations Experience Network, a subchannel of PBS. The program is called Wassaja,” which means “signal.”
• Decrying the latest Associated Press Sports Editors Racial and Gender Report Card, Carron J. Phillips wrote Tuesday for the Daily News in New York, “There’s a reason why it was a black sportswriter, Steve Wyche, who was the first reporter to recognize and ask Colin Kaepernick about his peaceful protest. Giving the quarterback someone he could feel comfortable talking to, knowing his message would not be lost or misconstrued. And for those who think that color shouldn’t matter when it comes to hiring practices because ‘the best person should get the job,’ I’m here to tell you that [what] you’re thinking is not only wrong but myopic and covered in racism. . . .”
• “It never occurred to me that being one of 1,035 Black students in a school of 33,564 students would be a problem,” Wylliam Smith wrote May 2 for the Daily Iowan at the University of Iowa. “It’s been two years since I first visited UI to sign my registration papers. Now, I see the uglier side of Iowa. I see the kids crossing to the other [side] of the street when I walk by. I notice professors complimenting me on how ‘articulate’ I am. I hear conversations cease when I walk into the room. . . . I find that people at the UI liked me more when I was being complicit in the racist beliefs on campus. . . .”
• “KNBC has named a new Today in LA co-anchor,” Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel reported Tuesday for TVSpy. Emmy Award-winning anchor “Adrian Arambulo will join the weekday morning newscast permanently. He’s been with the station since 2013 as the station’s weekend anchor and reporter. . . .”
• “Sean Combs’ Revolt Media and TV is downsizing in an effort to reallocate resources and expand the scope of its content production operations,” Cynthia Littleton reported Tuesday for Variety. “The company that operates the music-centric Revolt TV linear cable channel is laying off about 50 employees, or about one-third of its staff, across offices in New York and Los Angeles. . . .”
• “Download ‘Innovators in Latin American Journalism,’ the new free Knight Center e-book produced with generous support from the Program on Independent Journalism from Open Society Foundations,” advises the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas. The center also said, “The series looks at journalists and media professionals in the region who are innovating with design, storytelling format, distribution methods, business models, transnational collaboration, residency programs, niche markets, and more. . . .”
• Authorities in Burundi have imposed a six-month licensing suspension on radio broadcasts of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Voice of America (VOA), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. “Burundi’s National Communication Council (CNC), the media industry regulator, on May 4 accused the two stations of breaching the country’s media laws and professional ethics . . .  A government agency that regulates telecommunication subsequently turned off their signals, according to media reports. . . .”
• “In the past year, 88 journalists, including six women, were killed around the world,” the International Press Institute reported on May 2. “Of these, as many as 46 were killed in targeted attacks, in most cases because they were investigating and exposing corruption.” IPI also said, “An analysis of the data of the last 12 months indicates that the pace of investigation into most cases of targeted killings has been slow and only a few suspects have been arrested or charged for these murders. . . .”

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