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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
Diversity-Listing filtered by Topic
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Essence Magazine Hired White Fashion Editor--Was this a misstep?
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 03, 2010 08:32 am EST
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| Current issue of Essence magazine, whose target audience is African-American women. (Credit: Essence.com) |
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Essence magazine has hired a new fashion editor, Elliana Placas. Ordinarily, a new fashion editor hiring wouldn't be any big to-do, but Placas' hiring has become a controversial topic on many blogs, social media and news sites because Placas is white. And Essence, “where black women come first,” calls itself “the premiere lifestyle, fashion and beauty magazine for African-American women.”
Essence editor-in-chief Angela...Go to full story
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ESPN's Public Editor not a fan of ESPN LeBron "Decision" Program
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
August 01, 2010 08:36 am EST
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| Don Ohlmeyer, ESPN's ombudsman, heavily criticized the network's July 8 LeBron James "Decision" program in his most recent column. (Credit: YouTube, "TV Legends") |
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ESPN's ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer slammed his own network for its July 8 LeBron James "Decision" program.
In the program, James, a free agent, announced--after much media hype--that he would be leaving his professional basketball team of seven years, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and signing with the Miami Heat.
The ESPN special program not only resulted in questions about the ethics of paying for news and poor disclosures, but...Go to full story
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Media Roundup: Shirley Sherrod's Firing and the Media
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 28, 2010 07:08 am EST
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| An out of context comment made by Shirley Sherrod, seen here in an interview with CNN posted on YouTube, took over the media spotlight last week. (Credit: CNN, YouTube) |
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Georgia state official Shirley Sherrod was fired from her post as state director for rural development of the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week after a blog published a short video clip of one of her speeches. The clip, which was given to and first published by Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site, was unsourced and used out of context. After the whole video was examined, media and government officials have been apologizing to Sherrod and looking at...Go to full story
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Women's Media Center, Daily Finance Question NYT Public Editor Diversity
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 26, 2010 08:31 am EST
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| Arthur Brisbane was named The New York Times's public editor this week. (Credit: The New York Times) |
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Writers for both Daily Finance and the Women's Media Center both wonder about the lack of diversity the New York Times has shown in its choice of public editors. The Center's Web site describes it as a "non-profit progressive women's media organization by writers/activists" to make "women visible and powerful in the media."
Becca Stanger wrote June 23 on the Women's Media Center Web site about the appointment of Arthur Brisbane as the Times's...Go to full story
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Chinese Journalist Sacked for Critique of Government
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| by Siobhan Dixon, StinkyJournalism.org |
March 17, 2010 09:08 am EST
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| This photo shows Zhang Hong who was recently dismissed as a top editor for helping to write a widely circulated editorial that condemned the Chinese government. (Credit: guardian.co.uk) |
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A local reporter failed to sway the Chinese government through journalistic means and instead found himself both under fire––and fired.
Associated Press reports, Zhang Hong, 36, the former deputy editor for the Beijing-based website, The Economic Observer, was recently dismissed for his part in a controversial joint editorial published last week by 13 major Chinese newspapers that attacked the country’s government.
The...Go to full story
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Graphic Images from Haiti : Would US Citizens Be Depicted The Same Way?
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
February 06, 2010 06:16 am EST
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| A screen capture from NPR slide show of images from Haiti. |
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Conflicting loyalties of medical correspondents aren’t the only ethical minefield for media reporting on this January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.
Questions have also sprung up over graphic images of the disaster published by a range of media including the New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press and on the website of National Public Radio.
On February 1, NPR’s Talk of the Nation opened a discussion on...Go to full story
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Doctoring Diversity Photo is Fun in Toronto
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 15, 2009 06:23 am EST
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| Toronto's summer "Fun Guide" cover uses a stock photo of a happy family, see top image. However, the bottom image shows they replaced one smiling family member with an African Canadian in the effort to fulfill a recent mandated policy to represent Toronto's "diversity." |
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Canada's National Post reports that the city of Toronto's summer "Fun Guide" cover was doctored to create an "ethnically diverse family." The image on top shows "the family" before the digital alterations, below which is the instantly more inclusive family after the photo surgery.
The Post reports that John Gosgnach, a spokesperson for the agency that published the booklet, said an "African-Canadian" person's head "was superimposed...Go to full story
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Fauxlympics
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| by gregb1967 |
August 15, 2008
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| FAKE DIVERSITY... It's not a small world after all? It's alleged that all "the 56 children who carried out the Chinese flag in a moment meant to showcase national harmony were all from the Han majority" ? » more |
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Gregb1977 points out 4 instances of fakery and coins a new term-- the "fauxlympics." First, it's the fake fireworks. Second, the lip syching child star.
Quoting Yahoo News: he writes, "As if that weren't enough, there's [the third fakery]... 'Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this... Go to full story
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Viewbook Diversity vs. Real Diversity
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| by Scott Jaschik ,insidehighered.com |
July 22, 2008
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"In September of 2000, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Idaho were both embarrassed when they were forced to admit that they had doctored promotional photographs to make their campuses look diverse. In both cases, non-white faces were added to real student photographs of all-white groups...The research team counted the racially identifiable student photographs and also gathered data on the actual make-up of the student bodies. The findings: Black... Go to full story
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