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“The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey finds that the percentage of minority news directors rose in both television and radio. But those were nearly the only positive numbers in the survey. Overall, the percentage of minorities in both radio and television fell for the third straight year, although the drop in TV was small,” the Radio…

Late Professor’s Colleagues Urge a Look at the Black Vote Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said she really got to know Ronald W. Walters when they worked on Jesse L. Jackson’s 1984 Democratic presidential campaign. “Jesse Jackson would have you join hands in prayer” when there was a problem, “but Ron Walters figured it out,” she…

UPDATE: Saturday, Sept. 11 An impassioned President Obama declared Friday that treating Muslims with respect was in the national interest as he responded to one of four questions asked by black journalists in a nearly 1 hour and 20-minute news conference. “All men and women are created equal,” Obama said to a question from Wendell…

“The annual inflow of unauthorized immigrants to the United States was nearly two-thirds smaller in the March 2007 to March 2009 period than it had been from March 2000 to March 2005, according to new estimates by the Pew Hispanic Center,” Jeffrey Passel and D’Vera Cohn wrote Wednesday for the Pew Hispanic Center. “This sharp decline has…

AOL’s Patch network of hyperlocal news sites, which expects to be “the largest hirer of full-time journalists in the United States this year,” has finished hiring a top news management with little if any racial diversity and declared that “We do not focus on race or ethnicity in the hiring process, but rather finding the best…

Harold Dow, CBS News Correspondent, Dies at 62 “Longtime CBS News correspondent Harold Dow died suddenly this morning, Saturday, Aug. 21, at the age of 62,” CBS News announced on Saturday. [On Sunday night, CBS said Dow’s family said the cause of death was apparently an asthma attack. [“At the time of Harold’s death, he…

James J. Kilpatrick, the conservative commentator known to television viewers as a commentator on the “Point/Counterpoint” segment of “60 Minutes,” or as a panelist on the old “Agronsky and Co.,” died in Washington Sunday at age 89, his family said on Monday. To some African Americans, however, the Virginian’s support of Massive Resistance to school…

African Americans Showed Year’s Highest Growth Rate Over the last year, the broadband-adoption gap between blacks and whites has been cut nearly in half,” according to a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Broadband is generally defined as high-speed Internet access. “Broadband adoption by African Americans now stands at 56%, up…

Blacks Just 1% of Financed Internet Start-ups So Far in 2010 Before presenting its charts, CB Insights reported, ‘When we ask venture capitalists what gets them excited about the young, emerging and unproven companies in which they invest, we never hear about deals and dollars. Rather the first answer is frequently ‘the team’ or ‘the…