After 57 years serving as the voice of Tampa’s Black community, WTMP is firing its staff and starting a new format. As of Friday, the station is programmed by Davidson Media Group, a company known largely for Hispanic-centered radio. The Syndicated Tom Joyner Show, one of the most popular radio shows among Black listeners nationwide, along […]
Jet magazine is undergoing a makeover. Johnson Publishing Co., the publisher of Jet and Ebony magazine, recently announced that Jet magazine will begin adding opinion and perspective pieces to the magazine. In addition to opinion pieces, Johnson also plans a cover-to-cover redesign of the magazine in the future. While Jet’s presence is less dominant in […]
From Journalism.org: As a group, African Americans attracted relatively little attention in the U.S. mainstream news media during the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency — and what coverage there was tended to focus more on specific episodes than on examining how broader issues and trends affected the lives of blacks generally, according to a […]
From Gawker.com: Everyone knows that white people love Facebook and hate MySpace. But why? In a sure-to-be-controversial new essay, a famous internet sociologist says it’s a lot like white flight.
