Laura S. Washington, In These Times. February 26, 2008. In the wake of racial upheaval, the 1968 "Riot Report" concluded the media had to improve its coverage of Black America. Has it?
Tom Brokaw, Random House Publishing Group. December 5, 2007. Journalism icon Tom Brokaw reflects on his Midwestern roots, 1960s gender politics and the death of JFK.
Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. May 16, 2007. With a local news outlet in California recruiting reporters in India, no one can pretend any longer that we have a global monopoly on intellect and innovation.
Gemma Puglisi, Women's Media Center. March 27, 2007. For the third time in history, a woman has been hired as a nightly news executive. That's a sorry commentary in 2007 considering the first network newscast aired sometime just after Adam and Eve.
Dante Chinni, Christian Science Monitor. December 9, 2006. Al Jazeera's new English-language channel offers controversial opinions and a lot more in-depth Middle East coverage than Americans are used to.
