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Pullback of Movie Demonstrates “All Films Are Political” “Black leaders, angered by racially insensitive emails sent by Amy Pascal, the movie chief at Sony Pictures Entertainment, emerged from a meeting with her on Thursday saying they had reached an understanding about how to move forward,” Brooks Barnes reported for the New York Times. “Ms. Pascal,…

N.Y. Times Departures Further Whiten Culture Section The New York Times is laying off two black female reporters and leaving its Culture section devoid of journeymen black journalists as it continues to implement plans to reduce its newsroom staff by 100 via buyouts and layoffs, staffers told Journal-isms on Wednesday. Departing are Metro reporter Kia Gregory,…

Cosby Says Black-Press Freelancer Duped Him Bill Cosby’s attorney John P. Schmitt issued a statement Monday criticizing journalist Stacy M. Brown, who interviewed the comedian for a story published online Saturday in the New York Post and the Washington Informer. “Schmitt alleges his client was unaware the conversation was being recorded and would wind up in the Post,” Travis Reilly reported…

Three-Time Pulitzer Winner, of Washington Post, Was 58 “Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died Thursday while on assignment for…

Senate Democrats’ Study Reveals Leaks to Journalists ” The Central Intelligence Agency leaked classified material to reporters to shape the perception that its detention and interrogation program was an effective tool in thwarting terrorism, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report released Tuesday,” Noam Cohen and Ravi Somaiya reported for the New York Times. “The…

Younger African Americans Hear Message of Racial Progress “President Obama is delivering a pointed message to younger African Americans that the nation has made progress on race relations, urging patience and resolve in the wake of new protests in New York and elsewhere,” David Nakamura and Vanessa Williams wrote Monday in a front-page story for…

Lack of Indictment in Garner Case Faulted Across Spectrum “The media can’t breathe,” David Uberti wrote Thursday for Columbia Journalism Review. “That was the reaction of many journalists to news yesterday that New York City Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo wouldn’t be indicted for killing Eric Garner — and it echoed the black Staten Island man’s…

Writer Raises Questions That Get at the “Why” An appearance in an Al Jazeera report on media coverage of the developments in Ferguson, Mo., after the grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Darren Wilson convinced this columnist that “the media” in such situations has increasingly become defined as television coverage, with radio, the print…

Prosecutor, Protesters Single Out Cable News, Social Media From stone-throwers literally and figuratively to public officials and anguished citizens, the crisis in Ferguson, Mo., this week brought out the media haters. “The President, in a speech addressing the grand jury’s decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown,…

D.C. Journalists Say National Reporters Missed the Nuance Near the end of the autobiography he wrote this year with novelist Omar Tyree, four-time Washington mayor Marion S. Barry Jr., recalled his time as a ward representative on the D.C. City Council. “Everyone above the line at The Washington Post, including most of the key editors,…