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‘We have a real impact’: oldest Black college newspaper in US turns 100
Howard University’s the Hilltop chronicles one of the US’s most storied HBCUs and is helping a new generation of journalists navigate institutional racism

David Smith in Washington
Sun 3 Mar 2024 14.00 CET

“Malcolm X, one of the most evasive and non-specific individuals I’ve ever met (with his objectives and radical plans he would have to be), is perhaps one of the most clever artists of appealing to the emotions that I’ve ever seen. Bayard Rustin was ‘not’ in my estimation a fair match for Mr X. (Dr Martin Luther King would have been.)”

So begins an account of a debate between the civil rights leaders Malcolm X and Bayard Rustin that took place at Howard University in Washington. Along with a visit by the British anti-apartheid activist Trevor Huddleston, a student theatre production of Rashomon and an advert for Lucky Strike cigarettes, it is part of the mix in a 1961 issue of the Hilltop, the oldest Black collegiate newspaper in America.

The paper known as the student voice of Howard University has just turned 100. It held a gala celebration in February at the National Press Club in Washington with the Hilltop alumni Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste. It was a moment to reflect on the paper’s standing as chronicler of one of America’s most storied Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and, in an election year, its role in helping a new generation navigate a racially divided nation.

Howard University was established on a hilltop in Washington by an act of Congress in 1867, soon after the civil war, creating opportunities for generations of Black intellectuals, lawyers, doctors and other professionals barred from attending predominantly white universities. Student Zora Neale Hurston, later a writer and anthropologist, co-founded the Hilltop in 1924.

Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) studied anthropology under the scholar Franz Boas. Photograph: Historical/Corbis/Getty Images
A dip into the archives shows that the first edition, which sold for 5 cents, reported that “enthusiasm ran high” for a speech by the Black separatist Marcus Garvey. Later issues find King delivering a lecture to 3,500 people and taking questions about Black power and, in 1989, around 3,000 students staging a huge protest over multiple grievances with backing from Jesse Jackson.


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As expected, “CNN This Morning,” formerly known as “Early Start” with anchor Kasie Hunt becomes two hours and airs from 5 to 7 a.m. eastern.

“CNN NewsCentral” with John Berman, Kate Bolduan and Sara Sidner takes over from 7 to 10 a.m.

At 10 a.m., “CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta” is scheduled to debut. Acosta previously indicated his show would debut Feb. 26 after exiting his weekend anchor spot.

The 11 a.m. hour is being filled with a program called “CNN Newsroom with Wolf Blitzer.” This was slot is eventually slated to be anchored by Pamela Brown, who is out on family leave. Plans call for it to switch to the name “The Bulletin with Pamela Brown” when she returns. Her return date has not been established yet.

Rupert Murdoch is pulling the plug on the television broadcast of his right-wing UK outlet TalkTV, a blow to the media mogul who launched the opinion-focused venture just two years ago with an aim of replicating the success of Fox News in the UK.

In a memo to staff on Tuesday obtained by CNN, Scott Taunton, TalkTV’s president of broadcasting, said that the network will shutter its linear television broadcast in the summer and move to an online-only operation, focusing on streaming platforms.

“While linear TV has been a good marketing and awareness window for Talk, we now need to focus our investment on where the eyeballs are and where the revenues are in growth. In order to be successful, we need to prioritise being where the audiences are, rather than asking them to come to find us down the channel guide,” he said.

After building a global newspaper empire and witnessing the ratings and profits success of the right-wing Fox News Channel in the US, Murdoch sought to break into the UK television business, replicating the opinion-driven talk format. But the outlet, which launched in 2022 with a roster of high-profile hosts, struggled to build an audience, failing to rival established centrist news outlets like the BBC and Sky News.

“A large proportion of our live viewing is already through streaming on televisions and we intend to continue to grow this. Clips will continue to be shared through social media,” Taunton said. “There is no doubt over Talk’s future as an audio and video channel, it just won’t be distributed on linear.”

Ronna McDaniel, the former head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will join NBC News as a contributor.

McDaniel will appear on “Meet The Press” this Sunday, giving her first interview since resigning as head of the RNC earlier this year.

McDaniel is expected to be featured as part of election coverage on NBC and on the network’s sister cable channel, MSNBC.

“It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” Carrie Budoff Brown, who leads political coverage at NBC, wrote in a memo shared with The New York Times.

June bug wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:07 pm That story could have been cross-posted in “The Media are the Goddam Problem”.

Ronna McDaniel, the former head of the Republican National Committee (RNC), will join NBC News as a contributor.

Former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel may have inked a deal to appear as a political analyst on NBC News, but she is not welcome on sister network MSNBC, a new report revealed.

According to The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC president Rashida Jones “has no plans to have McDaniel on the channel,” citing “people familiar” with the controversy.

Turmoil has reportedly enveloped the left-leaning MSNBC newsroom following Friday’s announcement that McDaniel had been hired as an on-air contributor for NBC News. The Journal reported that there has been “internal backlash” over the hire — adding that “a number of MSNBC anchors and producers have voiced concern about McDaniel’s ties to former President Donald Trump and the RNC’s role in his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.”

Aaron Rupar
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Ronna's NBC tenure lasted less than a Scaramucci

Dylan Byers
@DylanByers

SCOOP @PuckNews: NBC NEWS plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following on-air revolt from NBC/MSNBC talent. Execs are deliberating over details; announcement pending. Meanwhile, McDaniel is seeking legal representation.

Full details, scoops & backstory in next edition of In The Room. Subscribe here: https://puck.news/newsletters/in-the-room/

northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:07 pm So now our measurements are:

A Ronna
A Scaramucci
A Truss
A McCarthy

There is probably room for a Richardson (i.e. Elliot Richardson) between a Truss and a McCarthy.

Kendra wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:01 pm Forgot to mention I watched a bit of Fox yesterday. Brett Baer (sp?) Had Britt Hume in to talk about it. Some grumbling about the MSNBC hosts complaining about it because there's nothing wrong with getting opposing opinions. Completely blew past mentioning the shenanigans with fake elections and describing J6 as political discourse.

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They say every good thing comes to an end, so it’s with a poignant bittersweetness that I have decided to announce my retirement from social media. But you can still keep in touch with me at my substack!

I want to thank all the fans for being so loyal, engaged and hilarious over all these years. It’s truly been an honor of a lifetime to gain and keep such an amazing following. See you over at the stack.

Inside the ‘Screaming Match’ That Ended GMA Weatherman Rob Marciano’s Career

Justin Baragona
Updated Thu, May 2, 2024 at 3:51 PM GMT+2·3 min read

ABC News senior meteorologist Rob Marciano was fired this week after he got into a “heated screaming match” with one of the producers of Good Morning America, two sources familiar with the situation told The Daily Beast.

Following the veteran weatherman’s recent outburst towards the producer, the network’s chief meteorologist, Ginger Zee, overheard the story of Marciano’s latest workplace tirade. Zee then decided to report the incident to network leadership, considering that it wasn’t the first time that Marciano had crossed the line on the set.

Sources said that given the history of past complaints about Marciano’s behavior, the network decided this “was the last straw” and gave him his walking papers.



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(original: The Daily Beast)

Rightwing media mogul Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth time
The 93-year-old marries 67-year-old Elena Zhukova, a retired molecular biologist

Maya Yang
Sun 2 Jun 2024 17.38 CEST

The billionaire rightwing media mogul Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time, this time to retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova.

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From at least in or about 2020, through in or about May 2024, GUAN, while working as the Chief Financial Officer of a multinational media company headquartered in New York, New York (the “Media Company”), conspired with others to participate in a sprawling, transnational scheme to launder at least approximately $67 million of illegally obtained funds to bank accounts in the names of the Media Company and related entities (together, with the Media Company, the “Media Entities”). In furtherance of the money laundering conspiracy, GUAN managed, among other teams, the Media Company’s “Make Money Online” team (the “MMO Team”), which was located in a particular foreign office of the Media Company. Under GUAN’s management, members of the MMO Team and others used cryptocurrency to knowingly purchase tens of millions of dollars in crime proceeds, including proceeds of fraudulently obtained unemployment insurance benefits, that had been loaded onto tens of thousands of prepaid debit cards. The crime proceeds were generally purchased by the scheme participants, including members of the MMO Team and others working with them, using a particular cryptocurrency platform, at discounted rates of approximately 70 to 80 cents per dollar, and in exchange for cryptocurrency.

Anger mounts at Washington Post over leadership changes and CEO’s record
Will Lewis’s appointment of his ex-Telegraph lieutenant Robert Winnett sparks fears journalism will be diminished

Alexandra Topping in London and Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
Fri 7 Jun 2024 20.45 CEST

Below the archaic font of the Washington Post’s masthead, its motto is printed in italic flourish: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

The publication has been enveloped in its own black cloud this week, as a worsening crisis sparked fears among staff – and media commentators – about the new British senior executives at the heart of its operation.

The Post’s British chief executive, Sir William Lewis – former publisher of the Wall Street Journal, who took up the role in January – blindsided journalists at the start of the week by announcing that the executive editor, Sally Buzbee, would be departing and one of his former lieutenants from his time as editor of the UK’s Daily Telegraph, Robert Winnett, will take the helm after the US election.

Lewis – brought in to revive the fortunes of the Post, which has seen sharp drops in readership and revenue – was already under scrutiny before this surprise appointment.

Questions have been raised in the American media about his own conduct, past and present, including accusations this week that he sought to kill negative stories about him.

As a pivotal US election looms, those anxieties are now blending with worry about whether something like what happened at the Daily Telegraph could be in store for the Post. A trusted paper once considered on the centre-right of politics, the Telegraph has tacked ever further to the fringes in recent years, embracing populist-leaning leaders and their ideas. These changes occurred after the departure of Lewis, but while Winnett was in a key role.

However, it was the role Lewis took after leaving the Telegraph that has been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks.

Lewis was hired by Rupert Murdoch as Group General Manager of News Group Newspapers (NGN) in 2010 – and one of his key roles was managing the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal.

This erupted when it emerged Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid had intercepted the voicemails of politicians, celebrities and members of the royal family.



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