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Urban Media Mix: 4.13.10

2010 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism
The New York Times breaks down the 2010 Pulitzer Prizes winners in journalism. Winners  were announced on Monday.  (NYT)
2 Black Editors Celebrate Pulitzer Day
“With that, word spread instantly: Daily News reporters Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman were named winners of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for the ‘Tainted Justice’ series, [...]

The Urban Media Mix: 7.21.09

Diversity of Journalism for a Multicultural Society
A new study of journalism’s commitment to inclusion concludes that too many diversity initiatives focus on the modest and mostly inconsequential goal of newsroom integration. Buttressed by a case study of coverage of a local issue in mainstream and minority newspapers in San José, Calif., the study argues that [...]

Urban Media News Report: 7.15.09

Press a Winner at Sotomayor Hearings Senate confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor opened on Monday, with some Web, broadcast and cable outlets providing live coverage and live blogging. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee drew battle lines as they and the first Hispanic nominee for the Supreme Court made their opening statements, with race a [...]

Urban Media News Report: 6.30.09

BET Awards Dominate Twitter, Causes Racist Backlash Angela Benton: Say what you will about the content of the BET Awards. I tuned in late but monitored activity on Twitter last night and to be quite honest was surprised and pleased to see not only Twitter’s integration into the show but also the show dominating trending [...]

Urban Media News Report: 2.23.09

NAACP wants NY Post editor and cartoonist fired The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invitation to assassinate President Barack Obama. Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called on the tabloid [...]