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Was It a “Reverse Migration”? American daily newspapers lost 13,500 newsroom jobs from 2007 to 2010, according to the American Society of News Editors. In 2008 alone, employment for nearly 400 black journalists vanished. The next year, newsroom jobs held by black journalists were slashed by an unprecedented 19.2 percent, nearly 6 percentage points higher…

A lengthy cover story in New York magazine makes the argument that Roger Ailes, who heads Fox News, badly wants to play Republican kingmaker for the 2012 presidential election and that his ideal candidate is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. “A few months ago, Ailes called Chris Christie and encouraged him to jump into the…

“In reporting the ongoing fallout from Schwarzenegger’s affair with the former housekeeper who gave birth to his child, has the press unduly invaded the privacy of Schwarzenegger’s one-time paramour?” Joe Pompeo wrote Thursday for Yahoo. “Some major news organizations have exercised restraint, declining to publish the names, photos or any other revealing details about the…

On Malcolm X’s 86th Birthday, Media Likely to Be Muted In New York, where the iconic black nationalist was based for the most prominent part of his career, and where he was assassinated in 1965, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture plans “A Critical Discussion of the New Biography — ‘Malcolm X: A…

“My Livelihood Is on the Line,” Weekend Anchor Tells NPR Eight months after disclosing on CNN that he was “a victim of a pedophile,” CNN weekend anchor Don Lemon told NPR on Monday that he is gay. “Do I want to be ‘the gay anchor’?” Lemon asked NPR’s David Folkenflik. “He said his mentors and…

“For seven seasons, José Romero worked the plum assignment as a beat writer covering the Seattle Seahawks for The Seattle Times,” Manny Gonzales wrote Thursday for Fox News Latino. “It was the early 2000s and often times when Romero looked around the press box it became starkly apparent that there were few, if any, other…

Capitol Hill Reporter to Succeed Liane Hansen Audie Cornish, a reporter and substitute host for NPR since 2006, has been named the new host of “Weekend Edition Sunday,” NPR announced on Thursday. She “will be the new voice of Sunday mornings for millions of public radio listeners beginning this fall. Liane Hansen, who has been…

Top-Rated Morning Show Presents Multicultural Face “Ann Curry will replace Meredith Vieira as co-host of the ‘Today’ show, NBC announced Monday, confirming much-anticipated changes in the cast of its perennially dominant morning show,” Bill Carter and Brian Stelter reported Monday for the New York Times. “Ms. Vieira told the program’s audience Monday of her decision…

“In an admission of dissatisfaction with the ratings for the 4-month-old OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, the head of that channel, Christina Norman, has been dismissed, the channel said Friday,” Brian Stelter reported for the New York Times. “Effective immediately, Peter Liguori, the chief operating officer for Discovery Communications, will take over the channel on…

The Huffington Post has scrapped plans to create the new black-oriented GlobalBlack website it conceived with BET co-founder Sheila C. Johnson in favor of reshaping Black Voices, one of the sites Huffington now controls as part of the terms of its acquisition by AOL. “GlobalBlack is now Black Voices,” Huffington Post spokesman Mario Ruiz told…