The Indianapolis Recorder is the second oldest African-American newspaper in the country. Next year the newspaper celebrates 120 Years of Service to Indianapolis and Indiana. Despite being a venerable institution in the community, a new generation of leadership is bringing the Recorder into the 21st century. While continuing to uphold the standards and mission of […]
Audio Included in Post. Runs 67 Minutes ©2011 WTLC/Radio One. The leadership of America’s third oldest Black newspaper, The Indianapolis Recorder, visited Afternoons with Amos for an indepth interview and interaction with listeners and community. The Recorder explained a new service where you can search, for free, past Recorder issues from the 1890’s to 2005 […]
An article in the Columbia Journalism Review discusses the increasing number of African-American journalists leaving mainstream media for Black-oriented outlets. The Columbia Journalism Review reports: Some of these moves were prompted by layoffs and buyouts; others by disillusionment with mainstream journalism or a desire to delve more deeply into African-American issues. Whatever the reasons, with […]
Washington, D.C.– AFRO.com announced that they partnered with Google to digitize the newspaper’s historic archives and make them searchable on-line and available to everyone on the web. Link to Afro-American/Google archive
The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey found that the percentage of minority news directors rose in both television and radio in 2009 but, overall, the percentage of minorities in both radio and television fell for the third straight year, although the drop in television was small.
