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President El-Sissi Declares He Won’t Interfere With Ruling “Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said Tuesday he will not interfere in court rulings, a day after three Al-Jazeera journalists were sentenced to seven years in prison in a verdict that prompted an international outcry,” the Associated Press reported from Cairo. “The ruling, on terrorism-related charges, stunned their…

Six Outlets for Sale at “Nominal” Price to Diverse Buyers In light of new government restrictions on owning more than one television station in the same market, Atlanta-based Gray Television, Inc., is seeking to sell six stations at bargain prices to buyers that qualify as “socially disadvantaged enterprises, such as a business controlled by a…

Joint Center’s Interim President Working for Free “The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, esteemed as America’s foremost think tank for Black political and economic research, is struggling with financial problems so serious that its political arm has been gutted and its interim president is working for free,” Hazel Trice Edney reported for her…

Final Jet Magazine Never Reached Some Shelves Distributor Shuts Down, Frustrating Many on East Coast Souvenir hunters looking for the last print edition of Jet magazine have found it hard to come by on parts of the East Coast — and maybe elsewhere — because the nation’s second largest magazine distributor suddenly went out of…

In Appearance, Coates Also Makes a Case for Journalism “The Case for Reparations,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brief in the Atlantic for why African Americans are owed a debt for the racial penalties paid for since slavery, “has brought more visitors to the Atlantic [website] in a single day than any single piece we’ve ever published,” Atlantic…

After a Year, Only Half of Promised Settlement Paid More than a year after the National Writers Union and representatives of Heart & Soul magazine agreed that a dozen freelance writers and editors would collect more than $125,000 in unpaid fees, the health and wellness magazine has paid only about half of what it promised,…

Historic Week for Company With Jet’s Last Print Edition The end of the print edition of Jet magazine this week is only one piece of history taking place at the parent Johnson Publishing Co. In assembling a new team for Ebony magazine, of which she is now editor, former Jet editor Mitzi Miller is proceeding…

Nexstar Offers to Sell 3 Fox Outlets to Entreprener Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., said Friday that it had agreed to sell three television stations to black media entrepreneur Pluria Marshall Jr. in a deal that, if approved, would nearly double the tiny number of full-powered African American-owned commercial television stations. The deal would require a…

Nexstar Offers to Sell 3 Fox Outlets to Entrepreneur Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., said Friday that it had agreed to sell three television stations to black media entrepreneur Pluria Marshall Jr. in a deal that, if approved, would nearly double the tiny number of full-powered African American-owned commercial television stations. The deal would require a…

“The Bravest Girl You’ll Ever Meet” Story Tells of Polio Victim Left for 10 Days in Forest An Associated Press story about “The bravest girl you’ll ever meet,” in the words of a tweet Monday from the reporter, is winning kudos for its emotional power and its journalism. The story tells of a 10-year-old girl…