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Glenn E. Rice, a reporter on The Kansas City Star's Missouri desk, has resigned as treasurer of the National Association of Black Journalists. The resignation came after the public disclosure that Rice was reprimanded by The Star last year for plagiarism.In an e-mail to members, association President Condace L. Pressley said Rice did not give a reason for his resignation. Pressley wrote that she had been told by the NABJ Media Monitoring Committee that The Pitch weekly newspaper in Kansas City had reported on the plagiarism.Rice, a reporter at The Star for 15 years, said Tuesday he regretted what had...

Jayson Blair Was Wrong, But He Had Accomplices By Michael King A New Visions Commentary paper published July 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 777 North Capitol Street NE #803, Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/371-1400, Fax 202/408-7773, E-Mail Project21@nationalcenter.org, Web http://www.project21.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Fallout from the Jayson Blair controversy continues at the New York Times. The top editors were forced to resign. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter resigned over criticism that he relied too much on stringers to produce his articles. The newsroom is in shock. Former Times reporter Jayson Blair was wrong in what...

"Let's see if your lies match up with your partner's lies." That trademark line, uttered by NYPD Blue's "Det. Andy Sipowicz" (Dennis Franz) to one or another suspect about to be interrogated, would be a fitting opening for the interrogation of any number of New York Times reporters and editors. But if I had my pick of TV detectives to grill the mopes at the Times, I'd call "Det. Frank Pembleton" (Andre Braugher) of the late series Homicide: Life on the Streets, up from Baltimore. Pembleton, a master interrogator and avenging angel ("We speak for the dead"), is particularly adept...

<p>May 18, 2003 -- HAVE you ever heard of George Streator? Most likely not, though he was the first black reporter at The New York Times, having been hired in 1945. He would leave the paper three years later - under circumstances all the more ironic in light of the Jayson Blair scandal.</p>

Rev. Peterson Attacked by Black Journalists At Reparations Debate! Rev. Peterson Says: “They Screamed, Booed, And Jeered At Me” Los Angeles – Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, today released a statement about his treatment at the National Association Of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) 27th Annual Convention & Career Fair. Rev. Peterson was invited by NABJ President Condace Pressley to debate “The Case For / Against Reparations for African Americans,” with Michael Eric Dyson, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, last Friday, August 2, 2002, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin....