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Save the Date: June 18 for What We Should Know for 'America's 250th' (Notices 6-6-26) "It’s America’s Birthday, and He’l...
06/07/2026

Save the Date: June 18 for What We Should Know for 'America's 250th' (Notices 6-6-26)

"It’s America’s Birthday, and He’ll Be Mad if He Wants To," reads the headline in the New York Times over a Richard Kreitner review of Eddie Glaude Jr.'s book, AMERICA, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries," "In 'America, U.S.A.,' Eddie Glaude Jr. looks back at the country’s past anniversaries with skepticism and pain."

Professor Glaude will be the lead panelist at our next Journal-isms Roundtable, to be held Thursday, June 18, at 7 p.m. Eastern, in person in Washington, D.C., and by Zoom.

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and for these additional "Notices":

From the Smithsonian Institution: 'America 250' Activities
Photos of 'Race and the Military' Roundtable Posted
June 9: Webinar -- Black Journalists on Cuba's Crisis
June 9: From Reveal -- Gutting of the Voting Rights Act
June 9: SPJ-DC Honors Its New Hall of Famers
June 11: D.C. Library: Discussing the Bernhard Goetz Case
June 12: How Documentary Storytelling Can Shape Policy
June 13: From NABJ: 'Inspire Black Men Day'

June 15: Webinar - 'Michael Jackson's Missing Chapter'
June 15, 16, 24: From Adam Powell -- Civic Engagement, AI
June 19: Deadline for Nominations for Vernon Jarrett Medal
June 25: Eugene Robinson at D.C. Library
June 30: How Baldwin Continues to Shape Conversations

June 26: From the Medill School: First, Do No Harm
June 30: Deadline to Nominate a Student Journalist
July 16: Future of Black Communities Summit
Registration Open for International Symposium on Journalism
From USC Annenberg: Fellowship on Data Reporting Skills

JOBS
From these journalist organizations
Rebecca Aguilar's Journalism Job Openings: The June List"
From Society of Professional Journalists
Apply to the Chauncey Bailey JoC Reporting Fellowship
Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel -- and We Can Simulcast There!
. . in today's "Notices"
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Abraham Jimenez Enoa, a Cuban journalist in exile, has been chosen as the Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist of the Year fo...
06/04/2026

Abraham Jimenez Enoa, a Cuban journalist in exile, has been chosen as the Percy Qoboza Foreign Journalist of the Year for 2026 by the National Association of Black Journalists.

This piece may be long and of particular interest only to those who value good and honest journalism, but the Guardian saw fit to publish it today.
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The long read

I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began

My friends and I wanted to tell the story of Cuban life, without interference. Before long, I was being isolated, monitored and interrogated

A version of this essay was previously published in the Dial under the title The Sneeze. Translation by Lily Meyer
By Abraham Jiménez Enoa

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/04/cuba-first-independent-magazine-sneeze-troubles-began-state-security

Update: "60 Minutes" shakeup; Cecilia Vega out [What Paramount's Merger Plan Has to Do With You (Notices 5-27-26)]Just a...
05/28/2026

Update: "60 Minutes" shakeup; Cecilia Vega out [What Paramount's Merger Plan Has to Do With You (Notices 5-27-26)]

Just as Seth Stern of the Freedom of the Press Foundation told us in yesterday 's post < https://tinyurl.com/mubfx9bw > that " “I’d say that what’s happening at CBS is a pretty good predictor of what is likely to happen at CNN," citing that as one reason for us to sign his letter opposing Paramount's merger plans, Benjamin Mullin of the New York Times today reports:

CBS News Names an Outsider, Nick Bilton, to Lead ‘60 Minutes’

Mr. Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, said he would bring new voices to the show. The overhaul by Bari Weiss, CBS’s editor in chief, included the firing of the correspondent Cecilia Vega.

Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, signaled a new direction for the nation’s top news program on Thursday, replacing the executive producer of “60 Minutes” with Nick Bilton, a longtime tech journalist and documentarian who has never worked in traditional broadcast news.

The appointment came as part of a significant shake-up at the venerable Sunday evening news program. Cecilia Vega [pictured], a correspondent, was fired on Thursday, as was the current executive producer, Tanya Simon, who had spent more than 30 years at the program.. . .

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/business/media/nick-bilton-60-minutes-bari-weiss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l1A.DauT.ccoPR2Z2EnXB&smid=url-share

What Paramount’s Merger Plan Has to Do With You . . The Press Mobilizes Against Ellison
Column, Photos Posted on Roundtable on Black Comedy
From New York: Media Watch for May 25
May 28: Investigative Managers of Color Task Force Zoom Session (12:30 p.m.)
May 28: What Latin Americans Have Learned About Climate
May 28: Tips for Environmental Investigations
May 31: Deadline for Women’s Accelerator Program
May 31: Deadline for Gwen Ifill Award Nominations
May 31-July 12: D.C. Library’s Comicotropolis
June 1: Deadline for Writer’s Digest Competition
June 9: SPJ-DC Honors Its New Hall of Famers
June 19: Obama Center Opens in Chicago
June 26: From the Medill School: First, Do No Harm
June 30: Deadline to Nominate a Student Journalist
July 1: Filing Deadline for Interest in Black Journalism Workshop

JOBS

From these journalist organizations
Rebecca Aguilar’s Journalism Job Openings: The May List”
From the Maynard Institute (May 14)
From the Uproot Project (May 26)
From Online News Association (May 27)
From National Society of Newspaper Columnists (May 27)
. . in today's "Notices"
https://tinyurl.com/mubfx9bw
https://www.journal-isms.com/what-paramounts-merger-plan.../

What Paramount's Merger Plan Has to Do With YouNotices 5-27-26 . . The Press Mobilizes Against EllisonColumn, Photos Pos...
05/27/2026

What Paramount's Merger Plan Has to Do With You
Notices 5-27-26 . . The Press Mobilizes Against Ellison
Column, Photos Posted on Roundtable on African American Comedy
From New York: Media Watch for May 25

May 28: What Latin Americans Have Learned About Climate Change
May 28: Tips for Environmental Investigations
May 31: Deadline for Women's Accelerator Program
May 31: Deadline for Gwen Ifill Award Nominations
May 31: Deadline for Women’s Accelerator Program
May 31-July 12: D.C. Library's Comicotropolis

June 1: Deadline for Writer's Digest Competition
June 9: SPJ-DC Honors Its New Hall of Famers
June 19: Obama Center Opens in Chicago
June 26: From the Medill School: First, Do No Harm
June 30: Deadline to Nominate a Student Journalist

July 1: Filing Deadline for Interest in Black Journalism Workshop

JOBS
From these journalist organizations
Rebecca Aguilar's Journalism Job Openings: The May List"
From the Maynard Institute (May 14)
From the Uproot Project (May 26)
From National Society of Newspaper Columnists (May 27)
. . in today's "Notices"
https://tinyurl.com/mubfx9bw

https://www.journal-isms.com/what-paramounts-merger-plan-has-to-do-with-you/

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Memorial Day Reposting:Remember the War Correspondents of Color World War I’s Black Journalists Had to Fight Their Own G...
05/22/2026

Memorial Day Reposting:
Remember the War Correspondents of Color
World War I’s Black Journalists Had to Fight Their Own Government
Back in Print: What Black WWII Reporters Wrote
‘Race and the Military’ — Journal-isms Roundtable video (April 2026)
. . in today's "Journal-isms"

https://tinyurl.com/4jyek9pe

https://www.journal-isms.com/reposting-for-memorial-day-remember-the-war-correspondents-of-color-and-world-war-is-black-journalists-had-to-fight-their-own-government/

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EEOC Wants End to Requiring Racial Data:Anti-Discrimination Tool Would DisappearSCOTUS on Voting Rights: Nearly 'Worst C...
05/17/2026

EEOC Wants End to Requiring Racial Data:
Anti-Discrimination Tool Would Disappear
SCOTUS on Voting Rights: Nearly 'Worst Case Scenario'?
Story on Environmental Racism Doesn't Call It Out
Laid Off: 'Best Thing That Has Ever Happened to Me'
Charlie Neal, HBCU Broadcast Legend, Dies at 80

Short Takes: Tasteless joke at Kevin Hart roast; Wayne Dawkins; Linn Washington Jr.; Ron Thomas; Daniel Grimes and Don Lemon; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Manuel Bojorquez; Isabel Wilkerson; George W. Goodman;

Black independent journalists; free speech and Black journalists; biologically accurate vs. preferred pronouns; harassment in El Salvador; Cuba’s political prisoners; arrested in Democratic Republic of Congo; Nicaragua closing radio stations.
. . in today's "Journal-isms"

https://tinyurl.com/3zseuud7
https://www.journal-isms.com/eeoc-wants-end-to-requiring-racial-data/
. . or via the homepage:

https://journal-isms.com

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NABJ Honors Journos on Outs With AuthoritiesAmong Winners: Afro-Cuban Exile, Arrested ReporterBuzzFeed Shares Up After N...
05/15/2026

NABJ Honors Journos on Outs With Authorities
Among Winners: Afro-Cuban Exile, Arrested Reporter
BuzzFeed Shares Up After News of Sale to Byron Allen
N.Y. Times' Kristof Details Abuse of Palestinians
'What Did Jamaica Do to Deserve Kari Lake?'
Publisher Ruthie Hopkins, 83, Survived Calif. Fires
Asian Americans' 'Overlooked History'; Struggle to Belong'
. . in today's "Journal-isms"

https://tinyurl.com/yb56u6mx
https://www.journal-isms.com/nabj-honors-journos-on-outs-with-authorities/

or via the homepage:

https://journal-isms.com

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