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Why ‘Washington Watch with Roland Martin’ is Must See TV

Roland Martin is a multi-tasker. Minutes after finishing a shoot of TV One’s “Washington Watch with Roland Martin,” the Texas-bred Martin scarfs down lunch in the entry way of the studio while meeting with producers to plan the guest list for the next show. On his walk down to the garage of the glass-front building that is Washington, D.C. headquarters for TV One, Martin twice interrupts our interview: once ...

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Diversity in Management Ranks of TV Newsrooms Continues to Slide

Diversity at network and local television news stations continues to decline, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Association of Black Journalists. The organization examined management ranks – not on-air talent or correspondents – where decisions are made about what stories are covered and how they are covered. NABJ found that African Americans, Native Americans, Asians, Hispanics and o ...

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Summer of Lies: Living up to the hype inside U.S. newsrooms

When it comes to making up stories, parts of stories or sources in a story, typically the same names usually surface: Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, Patricia Smith and Janet Cooke. I was just getting my journalistic footing when these scribes were revealed to be little more than con artists, and so their names always served to be looming warning signs of what NOT to do in the business. Too bad, it seems, that ...

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Bypassing News: Citizen Journalism in the U.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLW_VOciufY Bias and bungled reporting on US news networks are behind plummeting audience numbers, according to the Gallup Poll. RT's Marina Portnaya looks at a cutting-edge project that's encouraging ordinary Americans to drive their country's news agenda instead. ...

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I am now a total fan girl for Kiese Laymon

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once by my mother and twice by myself. Not sure how or if I've helped many folks say yes to life but I've definitely aided in few folks dying slowly in America, all without the aid of a gun. I have never seen him no ...

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Mind explodingly realistic

When we first saw Alex Roman's The Third&Seventh over a year ago, everyone was stunned by the photorealism of his CG worlds. With his latest commercial work, a spot for Grupo Cosentino's Silestone brand countertops, Roman once again shows his passion for cinematography, lighting and texture. Although this spot is 100% CG, the beauty of the shots distract the viewer from this amazing fact. Each compositi ...

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