Bob Maynard’s vision of news via computer recalled as East Bay newspapers...
Brenda Payton March 11, 2016By Brenda PaytonI was in a meeting with Bob Maynard. It must have been in the early ’80s. When he took over as editor of the Oakland Tribune, he was the first African...
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Three Lost Souls: Stories about race, class and loneliness
MIJE Staff April 1, 2016Woody Lewis, essayist and former web architect for the Maynard Institute, has just published "Three Lost Souls: Stories about race, class and loneliness," as a Kindle...
View ArticleDorothy Butler Gilliam Honored With The Anne O'Hare McCormick Trailblazer Award
MIJE Staff April 17, 2016Maynard board member Dorothy Gilliam will be honored by the Anne O'Hare McCormick Memorial Fund as the recipient of the organization's first Anne O'Hare McCormick Trailblazer...
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Oakland Voices Community Forum on Affordable Housing
MIJE Staff April 24, 2016At the Oakland Voices community forum on affordable housing earlier this month, expert panelists offered an unusually optimistic view of ways to secure affordable housing in...
View ArticleCIR and MIJE announce the Dori J. Maynard Senior Research Fellows program
MIJE Staff May 4, 2016The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education are pleased to announce the launch of theDori J. Maynard Senior Research...
View ArticleBest Voices of 2015 - 2016
MIJE Staff May 24, 2016From the very beginning, at the orientation weekend in July, the Oakland Voices 2015 correspondents shared a connection that no one could really explain. It started during a...
View ArticleBest of Oakland Voices 2015-2016
MIJE Staff May 24, 2016From the very beginning, at the orientation weekend in July, the Oakland Voices 2015 correspondents shared a connection that no one could really explain. It started during a...
View ArticleBest of Sacramento Voices 2015-2016
MIJE Staff May 24, 2016They became advocates for healthy lifestyles. They reminisced about childhood inspirations. They celebrated the vibrancy of their evolving city, but with caution. They...
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Oakland Voices Graduation 2016
MIJE Staff May 23, 2016Oakland Voices correspondents reflect on what they learned during the 10-month program. Video by Randy FilioOakland Voices correspondents reflect on what they learned during the...
View ArticleC-SPAN
Producer (part-time) Posted on: July 5, 2016C-SPAN is seeking a part-time Producer for its radio station WCSP-FM. This person will be responsible for supporting the production of an air shift,...
View ArticleNorthJersey.com
Web Producer Posted on: July 5, 2016NorthJersey.com is seeking a Web Producer to help publish breaking news and other content from The Record and other sources in various formats, including articles,...
View ArticleCan Media-Shaped Perceptions Be Deadly?
By Martin G. Reynolds, Senior Fellow, The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education July 8, 2016By Martin G. ReynoldsSenior FellowThe Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism...
View ArticleMinority reporters increase in TV, drop in radio
MIJE Staff July 12, 2016Minority workforce numbers have increased in several areas of broadcast media, but minority news personnel hiring has not kept pace with the overall population growth of...
View ArticleJournalistic challenges from the ’60s, fast-forwarded
MIJE Staff July 12, 2016MIJE asked veteran civil rights journalists Paul Delaney and Dorothy Gilliam about lessons from the 1960s that might be applied to journalists trying to make sense of the...
View ArticleReveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting launches new diversity...
By Reveal Staff August 2, 2016EMERYVILLE, Calif. – Today, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a national nonprofit newsroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, launched a project-based...
View ArticleTreasured journalism interviews now accessible with digital links
MIJE Staff August 7, 2016In the 1970s, Nancy Hicks Maynard and her husband, Robert Maynard, knew how editors would respond when asked why they didn't hire black reporters: we can't find anyone...
View ArticleClinton quotes Maynard in speech to journalists
MIJE Staff August 7, 2016Hillary Clinton wanted to make an impression upon the reporters, writers and editors at the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic...
View ArticleUNT Mayborn Journalism School earns AEJMC 2016 Equity and Diversity Award
MIJE Staff August 8, 2016The UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism and the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism has earned the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass...
View ArticleGeorge Curry: A Black Man Working
By Wilma Jean Randle August 25, 2016George E. Curry, journalist, editor, columnist, activist, educator, mentor and friend, died suddenly over the weekend from heart failure at his home in Maryland....
View ArticleBook Review: New York Civil War history highlights journalism scoundrels, heroes
By R.E. Graswich September 16, 2016By R.E. GraswichTwo days after the Civil War battle of Antietam, as the bodies of more than 23,000 men lay rotting in the late September sun, a photographer named...
View ArticleASNE releases newsroom diversity details: numbers show who works where
MIJE Staff September 20, 2016Diversity percentages from 733 newsrooms across the United States have been released by the American Society of News Editors. For the first time, the numbers provide...
View ArticleAAJA demands apology for Fox News report on Chinatown voters
MIJE Staff October 6, 2016The Asian American Journalists Association has demanded an apology from Fox News after a correspondent with “The O’Reilly Factor” purported to examine views of Chinese...
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Meet Our New Voices Correspondents
MIJE Staff October 19, 2016Oakland Voices is a community journalism program that gives East Oakland residents basic journalism skills and training to tell the stories of their communities from their...
View ArticleOV correspondents win SPJ community journalism award
MIJE Staff October 27, 2016Four Oakland Voices correspondents were awarded the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists’ community journalism award for radio/audio for a series of articles...
View ArticleACES Editing Boot Camp, Washington, D.C.
Event Date(s): 11/05/2016 (All day) Category: Boot Camp ACES Editing Boot Camp, Washington, D.C.Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.George Washington University,2201 G St NW, Washington, DC...
View ArticleGwen Ifill: An Appreciation
By Dorothy Gilliam November 14, 2016By Dorothy GilliamDorothy Butler Gilliam is a founding member of the Maynard Institute board of directors. She is a pioneering African-American journalist and a...
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Gwen Ifill: 1955 to 2016
MIJE Staff November 14, 2016Gwen Ifill, a pioneering African-American journalist whose career evolved from an internship in a newspaper city room to the pinnacle of national political journalism, died...
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Our Condolences to Brenda Payton Jones
MIJE Staff November 28, 2016Condolences to Oakland Voices coordinator Brenda Payton Jones who lost her father, Dr. James Williams, November 23. Dr. Williams was one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen.Read...
View ArticleMaynard Grad Mistaken Target in Social Media Wars
MIJE Staff January 14, 2017This first person account is by Doris Truong, a graduate of Maynard's Media Academy for managers and past president of the Asian American Journalists Association. - MIJE...
View ArticleExamining Fault Lines in a Time of Political Earthquakes
By Jean Marie Brown January 16, 2017By Jean Marie BrownAs journalists continue their post-election coverage review and plot strategies for the first 100 days of the Trump administration they should...
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