Richard Prince's Journal-isms

Richard Prince's Journal-isms A column about diversity issues in the news business.

Notices: WABJ Bash for 50th Draws Kudos, Raises $20KSave the Date: Nov. 24 for How Trump Has Affected Newsroom Diversity...
11/10/2025

Notices: WABJ Bash for 50th Draws Kudos, Raises $20K
Save the Date: Nov. 24 for How Trump Has Affected Newsroom Diversity — and What We Can Do About It (updated)
Nov. 12 Credentials Deadline for HBCU Honors Awards

Nov. 17: From Voces, Leading Latino Oral History Archive in U.S.

Nov. 18: Semafor’s The Future of Health Forum

Nov. 18: Reporting on Indian Country – Tools to Help Journalists Meet the Moment

Nov. 15: At D.C.’s MLK Library: Brown Bookshelf Tour

McClatchy Closing D.C. Bureau; Some to Leave Company
Ousted Student Journos Win Right to Cover Immigration Court
Jamaica Lists Drop-Off Points Where We Can Aid Recovery
Journalists and Distress: Supporting Colleagues, Helping Youth
Nov. 13: Cracking Open Cold Cases with Jerry Mitchell

Through Dec. 1: Gordon Parks Exhibit on Black Spirituality
A Glimpse Into Race Relations in Lincoln’s White House
Columbia J-School Hangs Its First Photo of a Black Alum

Dec. 15 Deadline for Prize Honoring Stories About the Underserved
From D.C.’s Politics and Prose
History of Black Bookstores — Now at the Library

Another Journalists’ Roundtable — in Texas

JOBS
From these journalist organizations
From The Uproot Project
From Rebecca Aguilar
From Editor & Publisher/Media Job Board
From Online News Association
From Investigative Reporters & Editors (Oct. 16)

From Press Forward
From Minnesota Public Radio
From Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
Dr. Sheila Brooks National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Entrepreneur Scholarship

Save the Date: Nov. 24 for How Trump Has Affected Newsroom Diversity — and What We Can Do About It  (Notices 11-7-25) Co...
11/07/2025

Save the Date: Nov. 24 for How Trump Has Affected Newsroom Diversity — and What We Can Do About It (Notices 11-7-25)

Congrats to Washington Association of Black Journalists
. . . And to Its President, Phil Lewis

McClatchy Closing D.C. Bureau; Some to Leave Company

Ousted Student Journos Win Right to Cover Immigration Court


Jamaica Lists Drop-Off Points Where We Can Aid Recovery

Journalists and Distress: Supporting Colleagues, Helping Youth

Nov. 13: Cracking Open Cold Cases with Jerry Mitchell

Through Dec. 1: Gordon Parks Exhibit on Black Spirituality



A Glimpse Into Race Relations in Lincoln's White House

Columbia J-School Hangs Its First Photo of a Black Alum

Dec. 15 Deadline for Prize Honoring Stories About the Underserved


JOBS:


From these journalist organizations

From The Uproot Project:

From Editor & Publisher/Media Job Board

From Online News Association

From Investigative Reporters & Editors (Oct, 16):

From Press Forward

From Minnesota Public Radio

From Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting

Dr. Sheila Brooks National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Entrepreneur Scholarship

From LinkedIn

From Indeed, via Todd Steven Burroughs

. . in today’s “Journal-isms” (click for details)

https://tinyurl.com/532smtks

https://www.journal-isms.com/save-the-date-nov-24-for-how-trump-has-affected-newsroom-diversity-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

. . or via the homepage

https://journal-isms.com


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NABJ Hears From Laid-Off Producer of Viral Video:He Urges Journos to Fight Trump Efforts to Control MediaNABJ Talks Fail...
11/04/2025

NABJ Hears From Laid-Off Producer of Viral Video:
He Urges Journos to Fight Trump Efforts to Control Media
NABJ Talks Fail Over Executive Director Contract
Winner: DEI Champion in Red Texas
A Second Chance to Pay Tribute to Michael Days

Paul Valentine Dies, Covered Civil Rights, Anti-War Eras
Rudolph Brewington, a Twin, a Journalist, a Navy Man
Trump's Favorability Falls Among Hispanics
Press Group for Americas Cites Anti-Journo Hostility
'Silent Genocide’ Against Cuba's Independent Journos

Short Takes: Charlamagne Tha God and election night coverage; White House press access; Haitian American journalist as Miss Haiti; DeWayne Wickham; Eugene Robinson; NAHJ’s “Cultural Competence Handbook”; full-body restraints and human rights; ICE recruits with criminal backgrounds; Boston basketball press play against coaches;

Maria Ressa Prizes for Courage in Journalism, Indira Lakshmanan; little-discussed “maid routes” on Atlanta transit; Stephen A. Smith vs. LeBron James; American Journalism Project grants; Columbus, Ohio’s Chuck White; Multicultural Media Correspondents Dinner; British commentator held by ICE;

California Spanish-language news desert; remembering Mexican journalists killed while reporting; Gaza Tribunal on targeting journalists; boycotting New York Times’ Opinion section; arrested Senegalese journalists; Uganda’s restrictions on coverage.
. . in today’s “Journal-isms”

https://tinyurl.com/4n3f3xpm
https://www.journal-isms.com/10-31-25/

Or via the homepage:

http://journal-isms.com

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Michael Days service scheduled for Saturday in Trenton, N.J.The location:Sacred Heart Catholic Church343 Broad St., Tren...
10/21/2025

Michael Days service scheduled for Saturday in Trenton, N.J.

The location:
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
343 Broad St.,
Trenton, NJ 08608

From Sunday:
Michael Days, News DEI Leader, Dies Suddenly:
Spontaneous Applause When He Was Named Editor
. . in today’s “Journal-isms”
https://tinyurl.com/bdetktbx
https://www.journal-isms.com/michael-days-news-dei.../

or via the homepage:
https://journal-isms.com
(updated with links to subsequent postings)

Photo: Michael Days and Angela Dodson at a 2017 Journal-isms
Joundtable at the University of Maryland.

Photo: Angela and Michael read from their respective books. Angela's was " 'Remember the Ladies': Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box." Michael'swas "Obama's Legacy: What He Accomplished as President."
(Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

YouTube video by Shevry Lassiter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUwCTMijUU

Questions Over Vibe, Rolling Stone Partnership:Some Worry About ‘Erasure’ of Black IdentityInadequate Support for Journo...
10/19/2025

Questions Over Vibe, Rolling Stone Partnership:
Some Worry About ‘Erasure’ of Black Identity
Inadequate Support for Journos Covering Tragedy

Short Takes: Reporting helps slow stops of Black drivers; Bay Area end of access to police radios; no Blacks identified in Washington Post Intelligence”; Hollis Towns and Deep South investigative network; Manny Garcia;

“Mapping Black California,”; NABJ urges members to send videos; NBC coworkers’ farewell to Omnika Thompson;

Quintard Taylor of BlackPast.org; California’s ethnic studies requirement; NewsOne partnership with Howard U. j-students; Candace Owens; Albert Rodriguez of MediaCo; Fresno anchor Monty Torres; Sara Sidner; CJR’s Betsy Morais; Minnesota’s Harry Colbert Jr.

Book on Britain’s Black journalists; drone killing of Sudanese journalist; South African’s call for jailing journalists

. . . in today’s “Journal-isms”
https://tinyurl.com/4ymtw53z
https://www.journal-isms.com/questions-over-vibe-rolling-stone-partnership/

or via the homepage:
https://journal-isms.com

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Corrected and updated: NBC DIversity 'Veriticals' Hit Hard as 150 Laid OffSites Targeted Blacks, Latinos, Asian American...
10/17/2025

Corrected and updated: NBC DIversity 'Veriticals' Hit Hard as 150 Laid Off
Sites Targeted Blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, LBGTQ+:
Reporters Exit Pentagon in Rebuke to Hegseth
All Serious Charges Dropped Against Reporter in ICE Case . . AP Finds ICE Uses Device Said to Amount to Torture . . White House Video on Chicago ‘Mess’ Is a Fraud . . Meta Removes ICE-Tracking Information

SPJ Diversity Group Stalls but HBCU Plan Goes Forward
Astead Herndon Leaves N.Y. Times for Vox
Journalists of Color, DEI Stories Win in Murrow Awards
For Cuban Journos, Blackouts Make Bad Situation Worse
. . in today’s “Journal-isms”
https://tinyurl.com/yfpauew8
https://www.journal-isms.com/nbc-shuts-its-diversity-verticals-amid-layoffs/

or via the homepage:

https://journal-isms.com

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