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“Short Takes” below: NABJ’s Sarah Glover at Philadelphia City Hall; C.M. Guerrero; Latino call for boycott of CBS News; uphill climb for Latino shows; lawsuit seeks broadcasting of recordings from Maryland criminal trials; Mayor Bill de Blasio and ethnic media outlets; Juan Williams; NABJ’s Black Male Media Project; Sarah Glover and Afro-Colombians; order to unseal Jussie Smollett documents; Kentucky morning host terminated after racist remark; GateHouse Media layoffs; Philadelphia Media Network buyout offers

AP’s Yemeni reporter denied visa to receive Pulitzer; BET and new Marc Lamont Hill digital show; Oliver ‘Ollie’ Harrington, Lalo Alcaraz, Angelo Lopez; Asian Americans and citizenship question; Michele Norris-Johnson; Jim DeRogatis’s new book on R. Kelly; Navajos who live without basic amenities; call for FCC revamping; bail agents profiting from people of color; entries open for reporting on disability; Janet Mason; Nia Towne; failure to surrender weapons; racism in Cuba; Lonnie G. Bunch III; Charisse Gibson

Stephen A. Smith and Magic Johnson; conviction in 1988 killing of Brazilian journalist; fatal shooting of online Brazilian newspaper owner; deteriorating press freedom in Nigeria; Al-Jazeera journalist rearrested in Egypt.

Short Takes

• “Longtime photojournalist Carlos Manuel ‘C.M.’ Guerrero, who spent more than three decades documenting moments of history for el Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald, died Sunday following a long battle with congestive heart failure. He was 62,” Germán Guerra reported Sunday for the Miami Herald. Guerra also wrote, “He joined the Miami Herald Media Co. in November 1987 and, despite health issues years later, continued to work and to produce excellent visuals through the end of 2018, including stellar coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Irma’s passage through South Florida. One of his most iconic photos was the result of another disaster: Hurricane Andrew in 1992. . . .” A memorial service is scheduled from 7 to 11 p.m. today, Thursday,  at Vior Funeral Home, 291 NW 37th Ave.
• In an emailed statement, the National Hispanic Media Coalition Wednesday called upon “the American Latino community and other communities of good [conscience] to boycott watching CBS This Morning and CBS Evening News after CBS failed to hire or promote at least one New York based Latino reporter or anchor in either one of those shows, and after Susan Zirinsky, CBS News President, in a conversation with NHMC President and CEO, Alex Nogales, could not commit to hiring a Latino on-air talent nor tell him when she plans to do so. . . .”
• “While shows such as ABC’s ‘George Lopez‘ and ‘Ugly Betty’ set up strong precedents for successful U.S. Latino shows during the early 2000s, Hispanic producers and advocates say it’s still an uphill climb to ensure that the next generation of Latino-themed quality shows stay on the air and reach a wide audience,” Nicole Acevedo reported May 24 for NBC News.” ‘Although it seems like we’ve made progress … that’s not the case,’ Gloria Calderón-Kellet, the former showrunner of ‘One Day at a Time,’ told NBC News. ‘There’s a perception of progress that we have and it’s dangerous.’ . . .”
• “A group of journalists and community organizations filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Maryland law prohibiting the broadcasting of video or audio recordings from criminal trials, arguing that the rule violates their First Amendment rights,” Colin Campbell reported Tuesday for the Baltimore Sun.
• In New York, “Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order Wednesday directing all city agencies to spend at least half of their annual print and online advertising budgets in community and ethnic media outlets, an initiative designed to ensure that vital local news remain solvent and continue to inform their communities,” David Brand reported May 22 for the Queens Daily Eagle.
• “Fox News political analyst Juan Williams offended his on-air colleagues after he called President Donald Trump an ‘idiot’ while praising Rep. Justin Amash‘s (R-MI) for being the only Republican lawmaker calling for impeachment,” Caleb Ecarma reported May 21 for mediaite.com.
• The National Association of Black Journalists is hosting its third annual national Black Male Media Project Saturday, with local events happening simultaneously in cities across the country. “Approximately 20 NABJ affiliate chapters will host coast-to-coast workshops, panels and events focused on examining newsroom diversity and accountability; providing solutions to improve black male representation; professional development, mentorship and networking opportunities; as well as inspiring black men by addressing the issues that concern them most,” NABJ said on May 23.
• Sarah Glover, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, is traveling throughout Colombia this week to exchange ideas with and offer support to Afro-Colombian journalists, NABJ said. During NABJ’s 2016 joint convention with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in Washington, eight Afro-Colombian journalists met with NABJ board members. Glover’s tweets from Colombia.
• “A Cook County judge Thursday ordered the case file in the aborted prosecution of ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett unsealed, marking a victory for the Chicago Tribune and other news organizations and adding another twist to a case with seemingly no end to controversy,” Jason Meisner reported May 24 for the Tribune. “Smollett’s attorney had succeeded in sealing the court records at the same unannounced hearing in March at which State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office abruptly dropped all charges that the actor had staged a hate crime attack on himself. After news organizations sought to unseal the records, Smollett’s legal team opposed the request, citing the actor’s privacy rights. But Circuit Judge Steven Watkins held that those privacy rights had been trumped by Smollett and his attorneys going before the cameras to declare his innocence. . . .”
• . . . “The nearly 500 pages of documents released Thursday reveal more detail in a case that has only grown in controversy since prosecutors in late March dropped all charges alleging Smollett falsely reported being the victim of a hate crime,’ the Chicago Tribune reports.
• “Lee Cruse’s suspension has turned into a termination,” Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel reported May 22 for TV Spy. “WLEX in Lexington, Ky. put out a statement today saying they parted ways with the morning host after his racist comments about a photo depicting the royal baby as a chimpanzee went viral. He was originally suspended for a week. . . .” Cruse had praised a fired BBC radio broadcaster who used a chimpanzee to represent Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s  new baby. Initially, Cruse laughed and said, “this is my new favorite disc jockey.”
• “GateHouse Media, one of the largest publishers in the United States with 156 daily newspapers and 328 weeklies, slashed jobs across the country Thursday,” Tom Jones reported May 23 for the Poynter Institute. “The official number is unknown, but it appears to be at least several dozen.” Mike Reed, CEO of GateHouse’s parent company, New Media Investment Group, told Poynter media business analyst Rick Edmonds “that of the 200 or so, a great majority ‘are moving from non-reporting to reporting jobs.’ In other words, editors and photographers could be asked to switch assignments, although it’s unclear how many will accept their new roles. . . .”
• “Citing declining revenues, Philadelphia Media Network, which publishes The Inquirer, the Daily News, and Philly.com, on Thursday announced buyouts aimed at eliminating 30 union jobs in the newsroom and other departments, plus an unspecified number of nonunion jobs,” Harold Brubaker wrote May 24 for the Inquirer. “The buyout will be offered to about 140 employees, including 117 members of the NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia. . . .”
• “The Associated Press expressed disappointment that its Yemeni reporter was unable to attend the ceremony to collect his Pulitzer Prize because he was not granted a U.S. visa,” the news cooperative reported Wednesday. “Maad al-Zikry, Maggie Michael and Nariman El-Mofty were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting on Tuesday for their coverage of the war in Yemen. Egyptian nationals Michael and El-Mofty were able to attend the ceremony because they have travel visas. There is no U.S. embassy in Yemen, so al-Zikry had applied for a visa in Cairo, Egypt. He was interviewed for the visa earlier this month, but never received a response. . . .” Yemen is one of the countries included in President Trump’s travel ban, which Supreme Court upheld 5-4 last June.
• BET Networks said Tuesday it had greenlit “Black Coffee,” a half-hour digital talk series hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, the Temple University professor and commentator. “Joined by co-hosts Gia Peppers, Jameer Pond and weekly guests who represent some of this generation’s most influential voices, Marc will delve deep into everything from pop-culture, relationships, music, politics, race, and social justice. Black Coffee will premiere Monday, June 3 at 10 AM ET across multiple platforms including YouTube, Facebook Watch, Twitter, BET Now App and BET.com,” an announcement said, quoting David A. Wilson, co-founder of theGrio.com who is now SVP of Digital Content and Studios, BET Networks.

• At Ohio State University, “The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum has acquired a rare collection of materials by the late Oliver ‘Ollie’ Harrington,” the school announced May 23. “Arriving from Germany, Ollie Harrington’s collection includes original published cartoons, along with roughs, sketchbooks and other archival materials. . . .” Harrington (1912-1995), has been called “the greatest” African American cartoonist. The library and museum also feature the exhibit “Front Line: Editorial Cartoonists and the First Amendment” until Oct. 20, Andrew Welsh-Huggins reported Monday for the Associated Press. “Tone it down, loser!” by Lalo Alcaraz and “My Opinions Only” by Angelo Lopez are part of this exhibition, museum curator Anne Drozd told Journal-isms on Thursday.
• “Asian Americans may be the group impacted most if the Supreme Court decides to allow a controversial question on citizenship to be included on the 2020 census,” Grace Hwang Lynch reported May 21 for PRI’s “The World.” “Asians are the fastest growing racial demographic in the United States, even among undocumented arrivals. And a recent Census Bureau study found they are also the least likely to complete their census questionnaires. . . “
• Michele Norris-Johnson, founding director of the Race Card Project and former NPR host, is among 17 appointees to a new East Coast division of the Peabody Awards board of directors, a group of prominent media industry leaders who provide support for the organization’s initiatives, TVNewsCheck reported Wednesday.
• Michelle Duke, vice president of the National Association of Broadcasters Leadership Foundation since 2010, has been promoted to president of the foundation effective July 1, Mark K. Miller reported Wednesday for TVNewsCheck. “She succeeds Marcellus Alexander, who has served as president since 2004 and earlier this year announced his plans to retire from the role, effective June 30. . . .”

• “Soulless,” a new book by longtime music critic and investigative reporter Jim DeRogatis, “is about R. Kelly’s long history of sexual assault and a complex game of legal cover-ups,” Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote Wednesday for the Chicago Tribune. “From the outset the author is self-conscious and sometimes self-aware about what it means for a white guy to be working, so doggedly, the case against a celebrity black man. He situates himself early as an outsider among outsiders, a punk who plays it straight. DeRogatis hopes the reader will trust he is an advocate of black girls and not an enemy of black men. It is a hair that not even black women can usually split successfully. He does a fine job of establishing trust with even a mildly sympathetic reader,” Cottom wrote. New sex crime charges
• “About 10% of Navajos on the reservation live without electricity. And as much as 40% of them have to haul their water and use outhouses,” Laurel Morales reported Wednesday for NPR and KJZZ-FM in Phoenix. “A poll of rural Americans conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that more than a quarter of Native Americans have experienced problems with electricity, the Internet and with the safety of their drinking water. . . .” The NPR headline read, “For Many Navajos, Getting Hooked Up To The Power Grid Can Be Life-Changing.”
• Eleven former FCC officials or scholars of the agency Thursday urged the commission to reorganize itself. “For generations, our media and telecommunications market participants have been regulated, for the most part, by separate FCC bureaus that remain too narrowly focused on the particular market segments to the exclusion of the broader marketplace [PDF]. Meantime, nearly all of the markets subject to the FCC’s regulatory jurisdiction have evolved, generally in the direction of increased cross-platform convergence and competition. . . . Because companies offering essentially substitutable services are often regulated by different bureaus, and thus receive different treatment, the FCC’s legacy ‘silo structure’ is no longer viable. Indeed, it undermines the agency’s performance of its mission. . . .” David Honig, one of the signatories, said the outdated structure makes diversity efforts more difficult.
• The money-bail industry in Pennsylvania has “yielded millions in fees for bail agents who disproportionately profit from people of color,” Joshua Vaughn reported May 22 for the Appeal. “In 2018, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office stopped seeking money bail for certain low-level offenses, a policy change that has resulted in a 23 percent increase in defendants being released without monetary conditions and no detectable change in rates of recidivism or failure to appear in court. Yet, criminal defendants in Pennsylvania are still often at the mercy of an industry that advocates describe as exploitative and potentially unconstitutional. . . .”
• “The National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is now accepting entries for the 2019 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, the only journalism contest devoted exclusively to disability coverage,” the center says. “Winners will receive a total of $17,000 in cash awards for first-, second- and third-place finishes in large media and small media categories. . . . .”
• In Grand Rapids, Mich., “13 ON YOUR SIDE President and General Manager, Janet Mason, has announced her plans to retire this summer after 22 years at the station and 44 years in the broadcasting industry,” WZZM-TV reported May 22. It also said, “Mason was named President and General Manager of WZZM 13, the TEGNA owned ABC affiliate in Grand Rapids and West Michigan in January 1997. She has spent more than 40 years with Gannett, now TEGNA, in a variety of executive and on-air positions. . . .”

• “Nia Towne is taking the News Director spot at KIII-TV Corpus Christi,” the Texas Association of Broadcasters reported Friday. “She most recently was Managing Editor/Digital Media Manager for CBS21 News in Harrisburg, PA. She also previously oversaw digital news operations for CNYCENTRAL New York and served as Interactive Content Producer for News10 Medford, OR. . . .”

• “As many as 30,000 guns may still be in the possession of Illinois residents deemed too dangerous to have them, according to a Tribune investigation,” Annie Sweeney, Stacy St. Clair, Cecilia Reyes and Sarah Freishtat reported Tuesday for the Chicago Tribune. “In an analysis of data released for the first time, the Tribune found the state has repeatedly failed to ensure that people surrender their weapons and gun permits after their Firearm Owner’s Identification cards are revoked, resulting in the breakdown of a system put in place to deter gun violence. . . .”
• “A common scene plays out in Havana: four female Spanish tourists arrive at one of the city’s many nightclubs in the company of two Afro-Cuban men,” Alejandro De La Fuente reported from Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday for the New York Times. “ ‘You’re in, but they’re not,’ the bouncer tells them. ‘The house reserves the right of admission.’ The tourists protest, citing such practices as those of ‘a racist country,’ but in the end their companions are denied entry. They’ll have to try their luck elsewhere. Cuba’s social policies benefited most of the population, regardless of color, but it’s clear they did not succeed in putting an end to racism. . . .”
• Reporting on the historic appointment of Lonnie G. Bunch III to become the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnae O’Neal, writing for the Undefeated, noted that “People of color are 39% of the population but only 11% of museum audiences. Studies from art museums, which are about a quarter of the museum universe, show only 4% of leadership positions are held by African Americans,” and Laura Lott, CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, “says those numbers are likely true throughout the museum world.” Bunch is founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
• “She started as a desk assistant nine years ago, left New Orleans to get experience and now Charisse Gibson is returning to WWL to take on her dream job as the station’s 10 p.m. anchor,” Stephanie Tsoflias Siegel reported Friday for TVSpy.
• “ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith raged against his own network’s reporting on Magic Johnson’s scandalous time as president of the Los Angeles Lakers while on the air today,” Caleb Ecarma reported Tuesday for mediaite. “In response to ESPN senior writer Baxter Holmes publishing a new expose Tuesday morning which included anecdotes about Johnson’s alleged abusive and rude behavior toward subordinates, Smith had a signature meltdown on ESPN News because he is hosting an NBA Finals special Tuesday evening alongside Johnson. . . .”
• “A popular jury condemned a man to six years in prison for participating in the murder of a Brazilian journalist in 1998,” Carolina de Assis reported Friday for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “Shortly after the trial, the sentence was challenged by the public prosecutor’s office because it considered it too low. Journalist Manoel Leal de Oliveira was shot six times in front of his home in Itabuna, in the interior of the state of Bahia, on Jan.14, 1998, as reported by the Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji). He was a journalist and owner of the newspaper A Região, with coverage focused on the southern region of the state. . . .”
• “Robson Giorno, owner of online newspaper O Maricá in the city of the same name in the state of Rio de Janeiro, was shot three times and killed outside his house on May 25,” Carolina de Assis reported Tuesday for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “According to police, Giorno was lured away from home before being killed, Extra newspaper reported. . . .”
• “Strict new conditions for covering government proceedings and the re-arrest of a prominent journalist on terrorism charges have raised concerns about deteriorating press freedom in Nigeria,” Ruth Maclean and Ismail Alfa reported Tuesday for the Guardian. “To be permitted to report on the country’s National Assembly, the highest law-making authority, journalists will now have to prove that their media outlet has a daily circulation of 40,000 copies or online media 5,000 daily views. Journalists will also have to show they have two years’ experience covering the assembly on a temporary basis, be members of the Nigerian journalists’ union, and fit other criteria listed by the assembly’s director of information, Emmanuel Rawlings Agada. . . .”

• “A Myanmar filmmaker appeared in a Yangon court Thursday on charges of defaming the powerful military, one of a number of activists arrested in recent weeks as rights groups slam mounting assaults on free expression,” Agence France-Presse reported on May 23. The filmmaker and activist is Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, founder of several human rights film festivals. “The release from jail of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo two weeks ago by presidential pardon was welcomed around the world, but fears over the backsliding of freedoms in the country have not abated, with several lower-profile cases continuing. . . .” The story also said, “Last week Channel Mandalay journalist Nanda Takotaw was also detained as police clashed with a crowd protesting against a Chinese-owned cement factory. . . .”

• “Egyptian authorities rearrested an Al-Jazeera journalist who was ordered released last week after more than two years in detention on accusations of spreading false news, his family and lawyer said Wednesday, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. “Under Egyptian procedure and following last week’s court order, Mahmoud Hussein had been transferred from prison to a police jail to await his release. But his lawyer, Gama Eid, said that instead of being freed, Hussein was apparently ordered detained again in a separate case. . . .”

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