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*The newsrooms throughout America make it necessary for various African American online, print, and radio news outlets like the Electronic Urban Report (EUR), The Root, The Grio, the Chicago Defender, the Afro American, Michael Baisden’s show, Tom Joyner, and many others to exist. The diversity that is necessary to tell the stories of the nation’s [...]
*Black journalists – including one who’s moderated past vice presidential debates, Gwen Ifill – are tired of being pushed to the back seat, and the National Association of Black Journalists is making sure the big wigs of the presidential debates know it. The group announced Friday that the Commission on Presidential Debates needs to stop discriminating [...]
*The National Association of Black Journalists said Friday that it is disappointed in the lack of ethnic diversity among the people chosen to moderate presidential debates. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The group said the Commission on Presidential Debates needed to stop treating black reporters as if they were unqualified, invisible or both. The group [...]
*Spike Lee visited the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego Saturday to give folks a sample of his new HBO documentary that includes a look at the BP Gulf oil spill. The director showed about 90 minutes of “If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise,” his follow-up to “When the [...]
*Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she plans to file a lawsuit against Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who posted a video that was edited to make her appear racist. Speaking Thursday at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, Sherrod said she would definitely sue over the video that took her remarks [...]
*In traditional NABJ fashion, this year’s convention brings some of the biggest names and issues in the news to convention plenaries, workshops and news conferences. NABJ’s annual conventions bring together the largest gatherings of journalists of color in the country, including the largest career fair for minority journalists. The NABJ Convention is geared to preparing [...]
*The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is not at all happy with CNN. In an open letter, the organization is putting the cable news outlet on blast for missing a great opportunity to put an African American in primetime. Instead, they chose to hire disgraced former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer for a new [...]
*NBC is brushing off complaints from the Detroit chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and several community activists that it presented an unbalanced and sensationalized portrait of the city on a recent edition of “Dateline.” “NBC News is proud of ‘Dateline ‘s’ recent hour about Detroit, ‘America Now: City of Heartbreak and Hope,’ [...]
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