Posts Tagged ‘newspaper’

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Jan22

What We Have Been Talking About Over The Years

by Duane on January 22nd, 2010 at 9:22 am
Posted In: Remember

“GenealogyBank, a leading online provider of newspapers for family history research, announced today that it will be adding over 280 fully-searchable African-American newspapers with coverage from 1827 to 1999. GenealogyBank released the first 61 newspapers in this new series earlier this month, including coverage from 20 states.” (more from the article)
Genealogybank.com African-American newspapers portal

Sphere: Related [...]

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Dec02

Sweep Around Your Own Front Door

by Duane on December 2nd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Posted In: Commentary, Headlines, The Media

Bryan Monroe writes in the Huffington Post
I, on the other hand, am going to talk about how white the Web is, and the threat that reality represents to journalism for our increasingly diverse nation.
Look no further than the 17 staff members of AOL’s new Sphere.com. Or the single African-American reporter at Politico. Or the lack [...]

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Dec01

Some Things Just Wouldn’t Fit In That NAACP Nig Casket

by Duane on December 1st, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Posted In: Headlines, Just "Why?", Our Expression, Politics

‘Memba when the NAACP held it’s mock funeral where they claimed they were burying the nigga word (Whoops! Was I supposed to say “The N-word?”. Well apparently the President of its local branch in Cleveland saw no problem recently of using his local paper to portray a Black politician as an Aunt Jemima. Cleveland Plain [...]

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Oct01

Where’s The Readership?

by Duane on October 1st, 2009 at 11:47 am
Posted In: Commentary, Headlines, Our Expression, The Media

Just as I thought it was a dumb idea to “bail out” American automakers who were doing a fine job destroying themselves, it is also a dumb idea to “bail out” newspapers who have been losing readership over the years. Black newspapers are no exception.
Too bad NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers Association) Chairman Danny Bakewell still [...]

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Jul09

Black press being shut out (UPDATE)

by Duane on July 9th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Posted In: Commentary, Headlines, Our Expression, The Media

***Scroll to bottom for update***
Before I get to the main article, let’s take a brisk walk through time as I have been covering this topic for years.
Back in February of this year, the Black press got mad at Obama because he was not treating them like the much bigger media outlets.
After the first black president [...]

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Jun09

Should there be a partnership?

by Duane on June 9th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Posted In: Our Expression, Question, The Media

Over the years I have written about how Black newspapers all across America and what they need to do to become a major voice in the Black community again. Let’s look at some web traffic numbers.
From Alexa
Chicago Defender – 419,609
African American News & Issues – 1,799,272
Afro American Newspaper – 296,196
Atlantatribune.com – 3,218,372
Insight News – 2,689,877
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Mar21

So there’s the press and the Black press

by Duane on March 21st, 2009 at 8:45 am
Posted In: Uncategorized

Thx Sean for reminding me about this.
From LA Times
Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.
This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him “Newsmaker of the Year.”
The president is to receive the award from [...]

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