Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Volume 3, Issue 21 QUICK QUOTE   "We have stalled or taken strides backwards recently. We must act to reverse that decline by preventing diversity from being squeezed out by other pressing priorities. Doing so will sustain us into a successful future. Diversity must not be trumped by many other genuine concerns. A generic, monochromatic newsroom mocks the essence of accountability that we should provide in community life."   - Gilbert Bailon, outgoing president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors HELP UNITY THROUGH THE CHALLENGE FUND GIVE BACK TO NEWSROOM DIVERSITY DONATE TODAY PRE-REGISTRATION ENDS JUNE 13   REGISTER TODAY   SEE WHAT UNITY '08 HAS TO OFFER     WORKSHOPS @ UNITY '08   STUDENT PROJECTS @ UNITY '08   TENTATIVE SCHEDULE   BOOTH SALES Reservation Deadline is April 30   ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES @ UNITY '08 Reservation deadline is April 30 UNITY QUICKLINKS UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. Homepage   More News   Opportunities - Fellowships and Internships   Calendar of Events     DIVERSITY ISSUES THAT AFFECT OUR NEWSROOMS   MEDIA DIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY LAYOFFS   Diverse Newsrooms Contribute to Public Trust of Press Statesman Journal When should it matter what a reporter or a television correspondent looks like or where he or she comes from? The answer to that question is both "never" and "always." More   Times-News Listens, Forms Diversity Committee Erie Times-News Real communication, the open, honest give-and-take that can lead to a solid relationship, always starts with a conversation. That's what some of us from the Erie Times-News had recently with a group of people from Erie's black community. More Turner Broadcasting Named No. 1 for Blacks Journal-isms Turner Broadcasting System was named the No. 1 company for blacks by the magazine DiversityInc. on Monday. More   Bob Richter: Staffers Beam During Newsroom Naturalization San Antonio Express-News Hundreds of well-dressed people of various ages and colors, some carrying babies, lined up last Thursday outside the Scottish Rite Cathedral, across Avenue E from the Express-News, waiting to become Americans. More   Univision Adds One Hour of News to Four TeleFutura Stations Broadcasting & Cable Univision is adding one hour of local morning news on four owned stations in New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Sacramento, Calif. -- some of the largest Hispanic media markets in the country and also markets where the company owns two stations, one programmed with Univision and the other with co-owned TeleFutura programming. More Essence Partners with Warner Bros. for Multiplatform Rebranding, Web TV Show Folio The latest: Time Inc.'s Essence Communications, which today announced a partnership with Warner Bros. Television to relaunch Essence magazine as a multiplatform brand. More   Ousted Rebecca Aguilar Takes Case to EEOC Journal-isms Dallas television reporter Rebecca Aguilar, dropped by Fox station KDFW-TV in March after complaints that she was too aggressive in an October interview, has filed a discrimination charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, her lawyer announced on Wednesday. More   New Social Network from Radio One Journal-isms Radio One launched NewsOne, a "premiere social network" intended to be "your daily stop for news and opinion for and about blacks living in America and abroad. We are where black people get to be the mainstream instead of being the footnote. More ______________________________________________________ MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENTS   Website takes on Poverty, Diversity and the Environment NevadaNews Reynolds School of Journalism graduate students are using interactive journalism to explore compelling cultural, economic and social issues on the online community site, www.OurTahoe.org. More   Annual Journalism Scholarship Winners Announced; Crazy Horse tops $1 Million in Helping Students Black Hills News Bureau High school seniors from Lakes Andes, S.D., and Andover, Minn., on Thursday won college scholarships at the 9th annual Native American Journalism Career Conference at Crazy Horse Memorial. More   Davan Maharaj Named Managing Editor of the L.A. Times Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Editor Russ Stanton reconfigured the paper's masthead Wednesday, elevating Business Editor Davan Maharaj to managing editor and naming Managing Editor John Arthur to the new position of executive editor. More   Frank Sotomayor Speech at the National Press Club National Association of Hispanic Journalists Frank Sotomayor, associate director of USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism, spoke at ceremonies Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington as a stamp honoring Los Angeles Times journalist Ruben Salazar, killed in 1970, went on sale.  More   _______________________________________________________________________________ JOURNALISM EDUCATION   Ed Gordon to Speak at CMU Event The Detroit News Emmy-winning broadcast journalist Ed Gordon believes that diversity is the secret to making newsrooms viable and strong." More   Cass Tech Alum to Keynote Media Leadership Banquet The Detroit Free Press Seeing the world from a diverse perspective is the objective of the Lem Tucker Journalism Scholarship Endowment. More   CNN Kicks Off HBCU Tour At FAMU The Weekly Challenger The Cable News Network made its first stop at Florida A&M University this month for it's first ever Black in America Historically Black College or University Tour. More   Florida Trainer of Latino Journalists in Cash Crunch Journal-isms The journalism school at Florida International University, which "has trained eight Pulitzer-Prize winners and graduates more Hispanic journalists than any other such institution in the country each year," is "slated to lose 12.4 percent of its budget, or around $455,422, over three years, according to Lillian Kopenhaver, its dean," Elvis Ramirez wrote last Tuesday on the Miami New Times Web site. More   Click here to read the latest information about student projects at UNITY '08! ****************************************************************** Have a comment about this issue? Email rwhite@unityjournalists.org and it may be posted on the next issue of UNITYNews.