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NBA Hall of Famer Aids Journalism and Sports Program “Basketball legend Charles Barkley recently announced his intention to make a $1 million gift to Morehouse College,” the school announced on Friday. “In that same announcement, he pledged similar support to Auburn University (his alma mater) and the Wounded Warrior Project,” for a total of $3…

Warning on McKinney: “This Time We Got Lucky” “Once again, the nation is fixated on frightening video of a police officer’s over-reaction,” the Dallas Morning News editorialized on Monday. “This time it happened in North Texas. This time no one was hurt. “This time we got lucky.” The Morning News was leading the pack Sunday…

ASNE Offers “Community-Based Engagement” as Remedy Adults who work with children say news media reporting on boys and men of color reinforces negative narratives about them, according to a new survey, but “news organizations increasingly are using community-based engagement to improve the situation,” according to Mike Fancher, speaking to Journal-isms on behalf of the American…

Red Cross Slammed in NPR-ProPublica Investigation “When a devastating earthquake leveled Haiti in 2010, millions of people donated to the American Red Cross. The charity raised almost half a billion dollars. It was one of its most successful fundraising efforts ever,” Laura Sullivan reported for NPR on Wednesday. “The American Red Cross vowed to help…

Washington Post Counts 385 Fatally Shot This Year At least 385 people were “shot and killed by police nationwide during the first five months of this year, more than two a day, according to a Washington Post analysis,” Kimberly Kindy reported for the Sunday print edition of the Washington Post, along with Julie Tate, Jennifer…

Charnice Milton Slain in D.C. While Used as Human Shield A 27-year-old African American reporter who committed herself to covering the blackest, most neglected portion of the District of Columbia was shot to death Wednesday night when, police said, she was used as a human shield in an exchange of gunfire by two groups of…

Sun-Times Runs a Photo That Police Didn’t Want Seen “Photographs can do a number of things. “They can help frame a news story or put it into better context. “They can convey details and nuances of a story that might otherwise be lost,” Jim Kirk, publisher and editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote…

71 Held in Demonstrations after Cleveland Cop’s Acquittal “Northeast Ohio Media Group staffer Kris Wernowsky was arrested while live streaming downtown Cleveland protesters, according to Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Rachel Dissell,” WKYC-TV in Cleveland reported. “Dissell said approximately 800 users were watching Wernowsky’s Periscope live stream, which continued to broadcast after reports of his arrest.…

Broadcaster, Black-Themed Site Each See Chance for Growth TheRoot.com has been sold to Univision Communications Inc. for an undisclosed amount, the parties announced Thursday, in a deal that puts a slice of the African American market in the domain of the U.S. company most dominant in Spanish-language broadcasting. “I’m excited,” Donna Byrd, publisher of TheRoot.com,…

Social Media Quick to Comment on Media Coverage “The scene in Waco on Sunday was like something off a TV show,” Dan Solomon wrote Monday for Texas Monthly. “Broad daylight shoot-outs between rival gangs that leave nine dead and eighteen others hospitalized rarely happen in Texas strip malls, but the biker-themed event at the Twin Peaks…