Culture

Jarl Mohn Says Latino Listenership Nearly Doubled in L.A. Jarl Mohn, a veteran media executive and investor chosen by NPR to become its next president and CEO, said Friday that he will model diversity efforts at the network on those at Southern California Public Radio, where he is board chairman. Mohn said its station, KPCC,…

“Everything Is Moving Faster,” Publisher  Says, Quoting Dad Jet magazine, a staple in black homes, beauty parlors and barber shops since 1951, is ending print publication at the end of June and becoming a digital magazine app, Johnson Publishing Co. announced on Wednesday. The transition marks an accommodation to the Internet age, during which the…

Many Hispanics Don’t Claim a Race; Unusual Rise in Indians “Millions of Americans counted in the 2000 census changed their race or Hispanic-origin categories when they filled out their 2010 census forms, according to new research presented at the annual Population Association of America meeting last week,” D’Vera Cohn wrote Monday for the Pew Research…

Why Wasn’t Owner’s History Given Greater Play Earlier? The saga of Donald Sterling’s racist remarks, which could cost him ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, put black commentators in the spotlight in a way rarely seen recently. At least two related the NBA owner’s situation to the low numbers of journalists of color or of…

New York Police Outreach Becomes PR Disaster “An exercise in social media outreach turned #epicfail Tuesday when users flooded the Twittersphere with some of the NYPD’s most infamous moments of brutality, the Daily News in New York reported. “The NYPD, through its Twitter page, innocuously asked people on to post pictures of themselves interacting with New…

Slate Raises Hackles Speculating on Hispanics, Whiteness When George Zimmerman was tried last year in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, descriptions of Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic” rankled some whites as well as a number of Hispanics. “Whites think the media were intent on telling a tragic tale in terms of a white villain and a black…

Unhappy Mass. Governor Defends “Important Voice” Federal agents shut down an unlicensed radio station in Boston Thursday, sending “shockwaves through Boston’s African-American community, where the station filled a vacuum on the airwaves after the station WILD-AM was sold,” Meghan E. Irons reported Friday for the Boston Globe. Gov. Deval Patrick sharply criticized federal agents for the…

NYPD Disbands Muslim-Tracking Unit Exposed by AP “A special New York Police Department unit that sparked controversy by tracking the daily lives of Muslims in an effort to detect terror threats has been disbanded, police officials said Tuesday,” Jake Pearson and Tom Hayes reported for the Associated Press. “NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis confirmed that detectives assigned to the unit had been…

Free Press Columnist Wrote Passionately About Fiscal Crisis Stephen Henderson, editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Monday “for his columns on the financial crisis facing his hometown, written with passion and a stirring sense of place, sparing no one in their critique.” Henderson appeared to be the…

In Newsrooms, “Still a Small Tilt in Merit Pay to Men” The pay disparity between men and women that grabbed the attention of the White House and Capitol Hill this week has nearly vanished from newspaper newsrooms, Bernie Lunzer, president of the Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America, told Journal-isms on Friday. “Likely still a…