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Rise in Viewership Approaches 50% on Spanish Channels “Many local television stations across the country carried President Obama’s primetime immigration address live Thursday even as major networks said they would stick with regular programming,” Jesse Byrnes reported for the Hill, the Capitol Hill newspaper. “Reports on social media showed that Obama’s speech aired live on…

CNN Host Sorry for Question; Beloved Dad Becomes Pariah “CNN anchor Don Lemon took to the airwaves Wednesday afternoon to respond to the massive uproar over his Tuesday evening question to an alleged Bill Cosby rape victim,” Andrew Kirell reported for Mediaite. The response took place on a day when “NBC — the network that…

Journalists Unimpeded by Ferguson State of Emergency Journalists covering events in Ferguson, Mo., should not interpret the state of emergency declared Monday by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) as a sign that their rights to gather news will be infringed, Gilbert Bailon, editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, told Journal-isms. Nixon’s order “gives him a 30-day window to…

Black Columnists Offer Tips for Success in Changing Field Members of the William Monroe Trotter Group of African American columnists, meeting on the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., were asked to impart advice to mass communications students on Tuesday. What they said sprang from decades of experience and was practical, heartfelt and…

Marie Nelson Named VP of News, Public Affairs Marie Nelson, a broadcast executive who was founding executive producer of NPR’s “Tell Me More,” worked at ABC-TV’s “Nightline” and oversaw projects at Black Entertainment Television, was named vice president, news and public affairs Friday at PBS, the network of “PBS NewsHour,” Ken Burns documentaries and the investigative…

GOP Base Still a Shrinking Portion of Electorate “Democrats got hammered in Tuesday’s election. The conventional wisdom is that this was a referendum on President Obama and a repudiation of his policies,” William H. Frye, a demographer and senior fellow with the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, wrote Wednesday for salon.com. “Yet, to…

“Vast Gulf” in Finances Between Voters, Nonvoters “With just four days before the midterm elections, the spotlight understandably is focused on the estimated 40% of voting age adults who are expected to show up at the polls next Tuesday,” the Pew Research Center reported on Friday. “There has been less attention on the much larger…

Dominicans Embrace Americans After Equipment Stolen “There are few circumstances in which good journalists want to become a story rather than cover one, but through no fault of their own two Post-Dispatch staffers became the center of attention while reporting on developments this week in a foreign country,” Dan Caesar reported Friday for the St.…

Attorney General Repeats, “No Reporter’s Going to Jail” Before Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart ended his interview with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday, he asked one final question: “What’s the one decision you made that you wish you could do over again?,” Matt Wilstein reported for Mediaite. “Without much…

Publisher Says She’ll Focus on Online Edition Sister2Sister, a women’s magazine that focuses on black Hollywood, has filed for bankruptcy protection and put the print edition on hiatus so it can focus on its website, publisher Jamie Foster Brown told Journal-isms. Brown, a onetime secretary to Black Entertainment Television co-founder Robert Johnson whose website describes…