Even Amazon Sold Hoodie Bearing a Threat
Crime Reporter in Company Car Carjacked
Police Not Collecting Data on Hate Crimes
Monica Drake Joins Masthead of N.Y. Times
Lilly Workneh Exits as Black Voices Editor
Salt Lake Paper Opposes Trump on Monuments
Seattle Times Protests ICE Arrest of News Source
Anti-Harassment Campaign at HBCUs Bubbles Up
Daily Beast Implicates U.S. Forces in Massacre
‘Overwhelming Response’ to Ebony Power 100 Gala
Support Journal-ismsEven Amazon Sold Hoodie Bearing a Threat
The nation’s largest retailer removed from its website a T-shirt that threatens journalists after the Radio Television Digital News Association and its Voice of the First Amendment Task Force wrote top company executives requesting its removal, RTDNA said on Thursday.
In an update, RTDNA said, “Less than 24 hours after Walmart removed the shirt from its website, Teespring.com, the third-party seller that had been offering the shirt on Walmart.com[,] removed it from its site as well.”
Even Amazon.com, whose owner, Jeff Bezos, owns the Washington Post, was selling the shirts.
“One day after Walmart removed a shirt bearing the words ‘Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required’ from its website, a hoodie with the same design was still available online at Amazon.com. It was pulled around midday Friday,” Colleen Kelly reported Friday for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis.
“The apparel design was listed in both places through third-party sellers that allow people to post their own designs for sale. . . .”
Not every journalist cheered the removal of the shirts.
“But why?” Cheryl K. Chumley asked Friday in the conservative Washington Times. “After all, what’s good for the First Amendment gander is good for the First Amendment goose. Private citizens, privately-run companies have just as many freedoms of speech and expression as members of the media.”
Chumley argued, “A better approach to show disgust is to take a creative path.
“That’s what editor Chris Cobler of the Victoria Advocate in Texas did. He designed shirts that read, ‘First Amendment. Journalist. Your support required,’ and distributed them among his newspaper staff. Much better; much more in line with the spirit of America.
“That’s how you fight First Amendment offensiveness — with the exercise of the First Amendment, not with the clampdown of its provisions. . . .”
- Kristen Hare, Poynter Institute: Last year, in response to the ‘Tree. Rope. Journalist’ T-shirts, this editor made staff some tees of their own
- Brenda Matute, KIDY, San Angelo, Texas: Walmart website sells shirt with words “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required” printed
- Brandy Zadrozny, Daily Beast: The Man Behind ‘Journalist, Rope, Tree’ (Nov. 8, 2016)
Crime Reporter in Company Car Carjacked
A Chicago Tribune crime reporter was carjacked early Monday in a company car on the south side of the city, Chicago news media reported. They did not name the reporter.
“Police said the 29 year-old woman was sitting inside her parked car outside of a Dunkin Donuts shop near 31st and Halsted streets when two men tapped on her driver’s side window,” Jessica D’Onofrio and Michelle Gallardo reported for WLS-TV. “They told her to get out of the car and then took off in her late model Chevy Malibu sedan.
“The carjacking happened at 2:30 a.m. across the street from the 9th District Police Station. The woman wasn’t hurt and police said the carjackers didn’t show a weapon or say they had one.
Crime watch member Tommy Alvarez in the neighborhood spoke to the 29-year-old woman after it happened.
” ‘She told me two fellas came and told her get out of the car and she panicked and she let them take the car and came inside Dunkin Donuts but they had no weapons on them, she says, they just took the whole car,’ Alvarez said. . . . The victim left her wallet and laptop in the car. She was not injured. . . .”
The Malibu was a Tribune company car, Dan Haar, breaking news editor at the Tribune, said. The reporter was not injured, Jacob Wittich reported Monday for the Chicago Sun-Times.
- Jacob Wittich, Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago Tribune reporter carjacked on South Side
Police Not Collecting Data on Hate Crimes
“The evidence suggests that many police agencies across the country are not working very hard to count hate crimes,” Ken Schwencke wrote Monday for ProPublica. “Thousands of them opt not to participate in the FBI’s hate crime program at all. Among the 15,000 that do, some 88 percent reported they had no hate crimes. According to federal records, the Huntsville [Ala.] Police Department has never reported a hate crime.
“Local law enforcement agencies reported a total of 6,121 hate crimes in 2016 to the FBI, but estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey, conducted by the federal government, pin the number of potential hate crimes at almost 250,000 a year — one indication of the inadequacy of the FBI’s data.
“ ‘The current statistics are a complete and utter joke,’ said Roy Austin, former deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. Austin also worked at the White House on data and civil rights and helped develop an open data plan for police data.
“It’s true that many hate crime cases fall away before they start because about half the victims never report them to authorities.
“But to understand why so many cases that are reported to authorities still fall through the cracks, ProPublica requested incident reports or aggregate data from more than 350 law enforcement agencies in 48 states, including the 50 largest agencies nationwide, on the bias-motivated crimes they had investigated since 2010.
“More than 280 agencies responded, but in many cases only to say they hadn’t investigated any such incidents, or had no records, or that their records were bad. When we followed up with agency public information officers, they acknowledged that investigators frequently did not mark down incidents as motivated by bias, even if there was evidence suggesting this was so — a spray-painted swastika, for example, might be classified simply as vandalism and not also as a hate crime. . . .”
Monica Drake Joins Masthead of N.Y. Times
Monica Drake, travel editor at the New York Times, has been promoted to assistant managing editor, overseeing new digital features and projects, the Times announced on Tuesday. She is believed to be the first black woman to join the Times print edition masthead.
“In a note to staff, Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, and Joe Kahn, managing editor of The New York Times, said, ‘Having Monica join the masthead is a testament to the importance of her new job and our belief that the Times newsroom should play a leading role in securing our economic future, just as it did in the 1970s when a host of new sections broadened the paper’s appeal.
“But it is also a tribute to the fact that she is one of our strongest newsroom leaders and should have a voice in our discussions about hiring, promotions and coverage.’
“As a senior editor who runs the Travel section, Monica has developed several ambitious digital projects. She reimagined the annual destination list of places to go into 52 Places, a multimedia feature that created a sensation when it advertised that it was looking for a single reporter to visit every place on the list. Nine thousand people have applied for the job.
“Next month, she starts Surfacing, a cross-platform column that will focus on subcultures around the world. . . .”
??Some personal news ??After 3 great yrs, Friday was my last day leading HuffPost @blackvoices. So grateful for the tribe behind BV who helped to build it into the powerful platform it is today & for all
the readers + retweeters who amplified black voices & our work. Thank u. pic.twitter.com/pS2HXX13qY
— Lilly Workneh (@Lilly_Works) December 3, 2017
Lilly Workneh Exits as Black Voices Editor
Lilly Workneh, who became editor of HuffPost Black Voices three years ago from theGrio.com, left abruptly on Friday. No successor has been named.
Workneh wrote Sunday on Facebook, “Some personal news. Friday was my last day leading HuffPost @blackvoices. I feel proud to have produced important & impactful work over the last 3 years in my role as senior editor. But really, I’m just so grateful for the tribe behind BV, past and present, who worked with me to build it into the powerful platform it’s become.
“We amplified marginalized black voices in a mainstream space, unapologetically unpacked issues around race and endlessly celebrated black excellence. I’m thankful for it all, emotional about leaving but also really excited about the future. Will share more soon but for now, I’m taking some time to reflect on and relish the legacy we’ve built before it’s back to prepping for big wins in 2018. It’s been an incredible journey and I’m so grateful for the readers, watchers, writers and contributors — but especially for the entire HuffPost team that helped black voices shine. Thank you.”
She messaged Journal-isms on Tuesday, “I decided to leave to take an editorial opportunity elsewhere. I’ll be sharing more news in the new year. ”
Workneh was lifestyle editor at theGrio.com in 2014 when she was named to lead Black Voices.
Workneh’s biography described her as “a May 2012 graduate of the University of Georgia where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.”
It also said, “As a multimedia journalist who has covered everything from fashion week to political protests, Lilly has the ability to discover gripping stories and convey them through compelling content. She has had the fortune of working in a number of different editorial capacities for various media organizations including People magazine, Instyle Magazine, NBC, MSNBC, theGrio.com, People.com and CNN.com. . . .”
HuffPost BlackVoices came in second in unique-visitor totals for 2016 on a list of African American-oriented websites that Journal-isms supplied to the ComScore Inc. research company for feedback. BET.com was first.
Lydia Polgreen, editor of HuffPost, could not be reached for comment.
Salt Lake Paper Opposes Trump on Monuments
The Salt Lake Tribune welcomed President Trump to Utah with a headline on its editorial page asking, “Why are you shrinking our monuments, Mr. President?”
On the news pages, Taylor W. Anderson, Rich Kane and Taylor Stevens reported Monday, “Before President Donald Trump even arrived in Salt Lake City, he had a crowd waiting to tell him he’d be wrong to revise the boundaries of two national monuments in southern Utah.
“Hundreds of people soon became thousands at the footsteps of the Capitol, most decrying the anticipated announcement that Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments would be drastically shrunken and broken into parts.
“Other protesters gathered at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Welfare Square, where Trump met with Mormon church leaders and toured the facility, which provides food and materials for the poor.
“And as Trump came and went, taking monument status on more than 2 million acres with him, hundreds walked the snow-laden streets to kneel on State Street and shut down traffic on one of Salt Lake City’s main downtown arteries.
“A standoff ensued with a few dozen Salt Lake City police officers equipped with shields, helmets and body armor. . . .”
The reporters also wrote, “Among the group were members of the Native American tribes that pushed for the added protection from development that comes with national monument designation.
“ ‘We are here supporting that the national monuments not be reduced or rescinded,’ said Kenneth Maryboy, a Navajo tribal member and board member of Utah Dine Bikeyah, the group that fought for the Bears Ears designation.
“ ‘I’m Navajo and my whole life my grandparents taught me to fight for the earth and honor things that are sacred, and now is my chance to honor that and protect that,’ said Steven Dunn, 32, from Orem. ‘That land is sacred to the Navajo people — it’s a place where we can go and pray and we don’t want that land to be blocked off to us and sold off to mining exploration.’ . . . ”
Writing Monday in the New York Times, Julie Turkewitz called Trump’s move the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history. She added, “The decision to reduce Bears Ears is expected to set off a legal battle that could alter the course of American land conservation, putting dozens of other monuments at risk and possibly opening millions of preserved public acres to oil and gas extraction, mining, logging and other commercial activities. . . .”
The Tribune editorial page’s open letter to Trump concluded, “Your duty, Mr. President, is to protect the natural beauty of our state. Not to put it under glass, untouchable. But to preserve it for all time. Thank you.”
- Doug George-Kanentiio, indianz.com: President Trump is living up to his Mohawk title of ‘town destroyer‘ (Nov. 28)
- Gary Herbert, Deseret News, Salt Lake City: 5 myths about Bears Ears
- Jesse Hyde, Deseret News, Salt Lake City: Welcome to the state of limbo: Fear and uncertainty in Bears Ears area about future of land, way of life
Seattle Times Protests ICE Arrest of News Source
“The federal government does not seem to be following its own script when it comes to immigration enforcement,” the Seattle Times editorialized Monday.
“Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a Pacific County man who — while violating civil immigration laws by living in the country without permission — appears to have committed no other offense except daring to speak to a newspaper reporter.
“The detention of Baltazar ‘Rosas’ Aburto Gutierrez flies in the face of ICE officials’ claims the agency is focusing enforcement on those who pose a threat to national security or public safety. By arresting Aburto Gutierrez, a 15-year Washington resident with no apparent history of crimes here, immigration agents are showing President Donald Trump’s administration lacks a coherent immigration enforcement policy.
“The arrest also looks vindictive. Aburto Gutierrez was an unnamed source in a Seattle Times article last month, recounting his longtime girlfriend’s arrest. Earlier, his nickname — not his full name — appeared in another local newspaper article about the immigration sting. He said when ICE agents came for him, they told him it was because of what he said in the newspaper. . . .”
- Nina Shapiro, Seattle Times: ICE tracks down immigrant who spoke to media in SW Washington: ‘You are the one from the newspaper’
Anti-Harassment Campaign at HBCUs Bubbles Up
“Inspired by recent allegations that powerful men engaged in sexual abuse, droves of women are coming forward with their own stories,” Samhita Mukhopadhyay reported Monday for the Intercept.
“Campaigns in the name of justice, such as #MeToo, are sometimes imperfect and sometimes tough to swallow — a journalist, let alone a court, may bristle at uninvestigated, unconfirmed, and anonymous allegations being made public. Nonetheless, the moment is unprecedented. Yet uncertainty and fears of backlash loom, especially for women from marginalized communities, in which a variety of circumstances can make them hesitant to come forward.
“One campaign led by young black women, however, recently cast aside these fears and went public despite the complex social history that underlies their accusations: Young women from the historically black school Spelman College decided to make known their allegations against men from their brother school, Morehouse College. And the campaign is percolating into the national media’s coverage of sexual abuse. . . .”
- Chris Ariens, TVNewser: Geraldo Rivera Apologizes For Groping Bette Midler Decades Ago
- DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post: The gang rape was horrific. The NAACP sent Rosa Parks to investigate.
- Colleen Hennessy, Ms. magazine: We Need Women’s Voices in Media—Beyond Their Stories About Powerful Men
- Allen Johnson, News & Record, Greensboro, N.C.: Sex, lies and videotape: Suddenly it seems like 1991 again.
- Roy S. Johnson, al.com: Roy Moore speaks at a black church, social media erupts
- Alexandria Neason, Columbia Journalism Review: What we found when we asked newsrooms about sexual harassment
- Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press: It’s time to investigate the Sexual-Abuser-In-Chief, Donald Trump
- Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star: Will evangelical Christians ever disown Donald Trump?
- Laura Washington, Chicago Sun-Times: The sexist boys in Springfield still don’t get it
Daily Beast Implicates U.S. Forces in Massacre
A U.S.-led military operation in Somalia on Aug. 25 “would result in the death of 10 civilians, including at least one child, and become the largest stain on U.S. ground operations in the country since the infamous Black Hawk Down incident in 1993,” Christina Goldbaum reported Wednesday for the Daily Beast.
“In the operation’s aftermath, hundreds of people in the nearby town [Afgooye’ flooded the city’s streets demanding justice for those killed, and survivors on the farm refused to bury their dead until the Somali government recanted its allegations that they were members [of] Al Shabaab, and offered an apology.
“The Daily Beast conducted an investigation into the Bariire operation and its aftermath, interviewing three of the operation’s survivors over the phone from Mogadishu and meeting in person with the Somali National Army Commander in charge of the Somali soldiers who assisted in the operation under the command of soldiers from U.S. Special Operations Forces.
“The Daily Beast also met in Mogadishu with over two dozen Somali intelligence officers, political analysts, local leaders, and former and current government officials familiar with the incident. Two of these individuals are also involved in an ongoing local, non-government-sponsored investigation into the incident.
“The Daily Beast also met in person with the commander of the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces whose purview under the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force includes Bariire, and who was approached by the Americans about their plan to re-capture and hold Bariire.
“The vast majority of these sources preferred to speak anonymously, either because they were not authorized to discuss the incident or because they feared possible retribution from either the Somali Federal Government or the Americans for doing so.
“The details that emerged paint a damning picture of at least one U.S. ground operation in the African nation. This includes U.S. Special Operators firing upon unarmed civilians, using human intelligence from sources widely considered untrustworthy to Somalis in the region as well as government officials, and instructing their Somali counterparts to collect weapons that were being stored inside a home — not displaced on the field in the course of the firefight — and placing them beside the bodies of those killed prior to photographing them.
“In the aftermath of the incident, according to our sources, American diplomats also pressured the Somali government to bury the unfavorable findings of a Somali Federal Government-led investigation. . . .”
‘Overwhelming Response’ to Ebony Power 100 Gala
Ebony received an “overwhelming response” to its sixth annual Ebony Power 100 gala Friday in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to Michael Gibson, co-founder and chairman of CVG Group, owner of the publication, but he would not define “overwhelming” or say how much was raised.
Some of the response was unexpected and no doubt unwelcome.
Larry Goldbetter, president of the National Writers Union, wrote members:
“On December 1, NWU crashed the Ebony Power 100 Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The Gala is Ebony magazine’s annual award ceremony to honor the leading African-American figures in politics, culture and sports. . . . Members distributed hundreds of leaflets addressing our efforts to get 48 Ebony freelancers the $85,000 they are owed for work that was contracted, delivered and published in the magazine. In November, we had our initial status hearing in a Chicago court. Our next court date is slated for January 5. . . .”
Gibson said by email Monday, “EBONY was pleased by the overwhelming response to its sixth annual EBONY Power 100 gala hosted Friday Dec 1. The sixth EBONY Power 100 honored Robert F Smith with inaugural John H Johnson award for his business and philanthropic achievements. Rep Maxine Waters [D-Calif.] received the Icon Award and gave an empowering acceptance speech.
“This annual event is one of the EBONY tentpole events that supports the company’s commitment to telling our stories to our audiences.”
Some journalists on social media criticized Ebony for holding the gala when it still owes money to freelancers. However, a “tentpole event” is defined in show business as one designed to make money to support other aspects of the enterprise, not as an expense.
Short Takes
- Overlooked: People magazine’s list of the 15 Sexiest Newsmen Alive, published Nov. 21, includes Lester Holt of NBC News; Charles Blow of the New York Times, Jim Acosta of CNN and Van Jones, one of CNN’s stable of political commentators. Blow called his new title the “strangest thing ever.”
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Ted Kim, a former national secretary of the Asian American Journalists Association and a member of the New York Times’ Digital Transition Team, has been named director of the Newsroom Fellowship and Internship Program, the Times announced Nov. 27. “He will oversee the summer internship program and help us overhaul the 8i [training] program, drawing on lessons from the 8i experience here and the David Carr fellowship,” Assistant Editor Carolyn Ryan said in the announcement. She also said, “Ted is a natural spotter of talent, and has provided insightful advice to me as I seek to build a more digital and diverse newsroom. . . .”
- Conservative commentator and entrepreneur Armstrong Williams “has tried and failed to get his hands on at least two print properties recently, making efforts to buy both the Hill newspaper and Essence magazine,” Ben Terris reported Monday for the Washington Post. “Then a friend told him [the Washington] City Paper was for sale, and could be acquired cheaply.” Terris also wrote, “despite his professed desire to leave the alt-weekly mostly alone, news of Williams’s interest — first reported by Mother Jones — has rattled City Paper employees past and present. A number of current staffers have discussed the possibility of quitting. . . .”
- “On November 23, 1887, a mass shooting of African-American farm workers in Louisiana left some 60 dead,” Calvin Schermerhorn wrote Nov. 21 for Smithsonian magazine. “Bodies were dumped in unmarked graves while the white press cheered a victory against a fledgling black union. It was one of the bloodiest days in United States labor history, and while statues went up and public places were named for some of those involved, there is no marker of the Thibodaux Massacre. . . .” It is also another reminder of the inaccuracy of calling recent massacres “the worst mass shooting in U.S. history.”
- “Establishing a fair compensation scale for the wrongfully convicted should be high on the to-do list when state senators and representatives reconvene in January,” the Kansas City Star editorialized on Sunday, citing the additional penalties such people pay, such as absence of a credit history, lack of savings and loss of Social Security benefits. “Kansas is one of 18 states that offer nothing to former inmates after they are exonerated. . . .”
- “Cindy George, a health and general assignment reporter with the Houston Chronicle, was on the job before, during and after” Hurricane Harvey in mid-August, Gretchen A. Peck reported Monday for Editor & Publisher. “Friends who were preparing for their own evacuations helped her to procure the things she might need to ride out the storm so that she didn’t have to stop working. The process wasn’t foreign to George, who grew up in Florida accustomed to ‘hurricane season.’ . . . Though her home didn’t take on any water, all of the surrounding routes into the neighborhood and out were flooded. For three days, she was immobile but remained on the job.. . .”
- “Discovery Communications said it completed an agreement with Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Inc. to increase its stake in their OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network,” Jon Lafayette reported Monday for Broadcasting & Cable. “Discovery paid $70 million for an additional 24.5% stake in the network, which brings its ownership to more than 70%. Winfrey will continue as CEO of the network and is committed through 2025. Harpo will retain an significant interest in OWN. . . .”
- “CNN analyst Harry Houck shared a fake news story which fabricated quotes from Denzel Washington attacking former President Barack Obama as the ‘criminal-in-chief’ and claiming CNN isn’t ‘discussing the facts,’ “ Eric Hananoki reported Mondah for Media Matters for America. “Washington’s publicist confirmed to Media Matters that the actor never made the remarks.
- “A few years ago, freelance journalist Linda Villarosa thought she was done covering HIV,” Joaquin Sapien reported Friday for ProPublica. “She had accomplished plenty — front page stories for The New York Times, articles in Essence magazine. . . . Then, she came across two studies. One from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that if current trends continued, one out of every two black gay men in America would have HIV. Another said Jackson, Mississippi, was essentially ground zero for the disease. She realized she most certainly was not done writing about HIV. On today’s episode of The Breakthrough, Villarosa describes how these studies inspired her to travel to Jackson. . . .”
- “Gabrielle Union is showing her support in style!” Karen Mizoguchi reported Wednesday for People magazine.”The actress, 45, gave a pregnant Georgia news anchor Laura Warren some pieces from her New York & Co. clothing collection after the WRDW broadcaster was body shamed by viewers during her recent pregnancy. . . .” WRDW is in Augusta, Ga.
- “María Elena Salinas’ departure from Univision network will not go unnoticed, as the Spanish-language broadcaster where she has worked for over 36 years plans a week-long tribute for one of the most popular and well-known television journalists in the media industry,” Veronica Villafañe reported Friday for Forbes.
- “Far beyond using social media for entertainment, shopping or communication, African-American millennials have elevated Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other platforms to raise public consciousness about the issues impacting black people,” David A. Love of theGrio.com wrote Thursday for CNN as part of a series on challenges facing the media. Love concluded, “A digital environment arms African-American millennial writers with tools that enable them to carve out their own territory in their unique and innovative way — exercising free speech and contributing to a healthy democracy, and staying true to the proud history of the black press. . . .”
- “Halifax, it’s time for something different — and much needed,” Philip Croucher wrote Sunday for Canada’s Metro newspapers. “Over the next five days, your Metro will give many of its pages over to a special series, titled Black in Halifax. More than two months in the making, this feature is the result of a partnership with important voices in the Black community . . . We have also brought in three Black journalists and a guest editor . . . The stories you will read over the next five days are wide-ranging. They are stories you don’t often see in the mainstream media. They explore the real triumphs and trauma of being Black in Halifax. . . .”
- “The Florida Memorial University chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ-FMU) has been awarded a $5,000 grant from the NASCAR Foundation,” the South Florida Times reported Thursday. “The grant will help fund broadcast equipment for communication students at the Miami Gardens campus. . . .”
- “The International Federation of Journalists said Nov. 27 that it “condemns the decisions by the Pakistani authorities to take down all television news channels and block access to some social media platforms on November 25 following a political demonstration in Islamabad, Pakistan. . . .”
- Selam Gebrekidan, a native of Ethiopia, is joining the Times international desk as an investigative reporter, the Times announced on Monday. She “will be joining The Times from Reuters, where she is a global enterprise reporter based in London. Gebrekidan studied at Columbia University, covered the oil industry in the U.S., is skilled at database reporting and is a winner of the Daniel Pearl Prize for Investigative Reporting. She will remain based in London. . . .”
- Also at the Times, “Luis Ferré-Sadurní is promoted to reporter from Scotty Reston Reporting Fellow,” Metro Editor Wendell Jamieson announced Tuesday.”Luis joined us in June and has had a unique intern experience — he covered the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s collision with Puerto Rico, where he is from, and received a Publisher’s Award for his efforts. Luis’s first job was helping run the printing press at El Nuevo Día in San Juan. . . . as he told me, ‘I think in Spanish when I speak English, but not as much when I write in English.’ ‘
- In Yemen, “Gunmen from the Ansar Allah movement, commonly known as the Houthis, on December 2 stormed the Sanaa headquarters of the television channel Yemen Today and detained the channel’s employees, according to news reports, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Monday. “Mohammed Gobari, a Reuters correspondent in Sanaa, told CPJ that at least three building guards were killed during the attack and that the gunmen are still holding at least 40 employees in the building.. . .”
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