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Topics in this digest:
1. EMPLOYMENT: DISCRIMINATION : NEWSPAPERS: Letter to the Philadelphia
From: David P. Dillard
2. LIBRARY: SERVICES: Its Through the Roof
From: David P. Dillard
3. HISTORY: SCHOLARS AND WRITERS : CRIMINAL JUSTICE: JAYWALKING: Britis
From: David P. Dillard
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1. EMPLOYMENT: DISCRIMINATION : NEWSPAPERS: Letter to the Philadelphia
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Mon Jan 8, 2007 2:11 pm ((PST))
EMPLOYMENT: DISCRIMINATION :
NEWSPAPERS:
Letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher on Recent Layoffs
Letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher on Recent Layoffs
Published: Thursday, January 4, 2007
National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
Following is a letter sent Wednesday to Brian Tierney,
publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News
January 3, 2007
Brian P. Tierney
CEO and Publisher
The Philadelphia Inquirer
400 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19130
From
Bryan Monroe
President, NABJ
Vice President & Editorial Director
Ebony + Jet Magazines
Ernie Suggs
NABJ Vice President-Print
Reporter
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
URL:
<http://www.nabj.org/newsroom/news_releases/story/52896p-81543c.html>
Excerpt from this Letter:
We are writing you today in the wake of the recent layoffs initiated at
The Philadelphia Inquirer and the profound impact they will have on
diversity and journalism.
The National Association of Black Journalists understands the financial
challenges that your company is going through. As the landscape of
American journalism continues to evolve, newspapers across the country
increasingly face a need to make hard decisions in an effort to advance
the product.
However, as an organization, we are troubled by what seems to be a growing
trend in the industry, which is to lay off African-Americans and
minorities at a lopsided level. That trend was demonstrated severely today
by The Inquirers elimination of a disproportionate number of African
American journalists.
Of the 71 names on your latest layoff list, we understand that as many as
14-16 of the journalists targeted are African-American, or as much as 22.5
percent of the layoffs. That percentage is nearly double the proportion of
blacks in the newsroom at the Inquirer, which was 11.3 percent in 2006,
according to the latest ASNE survey.
You have stated publicly how important diversity is to the future of the
Inquirer and Daily News, and how vital it is to the health and success of
your enterprise that the staff reflects your core communities. However,
your action today takes you and the newspaper in the wrong direction.
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The entire letter may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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2. LIBRARY: SERVICES: Its Through the Roof
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Tue Jan 9, 2007 6:49 am ((PST))
LIBRARY: SERVICES: Its Through the Roof
Its Through the Roof
By Adam Benson
Staff Writer
Herald Journal News
<http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2007/01/09/news/news01.txt>
Logan Library patrons logged onto the facilitys Web site in record numbers
in 2006, and Director Ronald Jenkins doesnt see the clip slowing any time
soon.
Visits to the librarys Web site increased from 766,546 in 2005 to 928,998
in 2006 a difference of 162,452.
Jenkins expects to eclipse the million mark by January 2008.
And according to library officials, all that traffic wasnt limited to
Cache Valley. People from 20 states and Canadian provinces and from as far
away as Asia and Australia happened upon the Logan Librarys site last
year.
<snip>
Things are shifting in how people use the library. People expect us to
have a Web site, Jenkins said.
And as online hits have steadily increased, the number of questions
answered by reference librarians has fallen over the past year, library
statistics show.
In 2005, the reference desk answered 51,209 questions. This past year, the
figure dropped to 41,598.
<snip>
The downward trend on reference questions is a national occurrence, he
said. What we can best justify that by is that were putting so much out on
the Web.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
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Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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3. HISTORY: SCHOLARS AND WRITERS : CRIMINAL JUSTICE: JAYWALKING: Britis
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Tue Jan 9, 2007 11:05 am ((PST))
HISTORY: SCHOLARS AND WRITERS:
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: JAYWALKING:
British Author Jailed for Jaywalking in Atlanta
British Author Jailed for Jaywalking in Atlanta
Incident Called 'Extremely Traumatic'
By CHRISTIAN BOONE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 01/09/07
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
<http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/
metro/atlanta/stories/2007/01/08/0109metwalk.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/vp5bc>
British historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, author of the 2006 book
"Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration," found the streets of
downtown Atlanta much more difficult to navigate during last week's annual
convention of the American Historians Association.
Fernandez-Armesto said he was handcuffed and jailed for jaywalking across
Peachtree Center Avenue.
Police confirmed the Tufts University professor was arrested and charged
with disorderly conduct, said Officer Steve Coleman of the Atlanta Police
Department.
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Fernandez-Armesto said he was accosted by a man he did not know was a
police officer "I did not see a badge or any identification" as he
crossed the street.
"Where I come from, jaywalking is not a crime," he said. "It did not occur
to me that there was anything wrong with what I was doing."
When the author of 19 books reached the other side of the street, he was
met by the officer requesting identification.
"When I questioned who he was he said something to the effect of 'When I
give you an order, you obey it,' " Fernandez-Armesto said. "I asked him
what his authority was because I didn't see a badge. Where I'm from you
don't associate young gentlemen in bomber jackets with the police. But he
was extremely upset I had questioned his bona fides."
Fernandez-Armesto, 56, a former professor at Oxford, was unable to produce
proper identification. "I had left my green card in my hotel room. I was
puzzled. I was baffled, at a loss, really," he said. "While I was
hesitating, he lost patience."
At that point, the slightly built historian said the officer kicked his
legs under him and pinned him to the ground, causing his glasses to fall
off. Two other officers assisted in holding him down, said
Fernandez-Armesto, who said he suffered a gash on his forehead and a
bruise on his wrist as he attempted to break his fall.
"It was the most violence I've ever experienced in my life," said
Fernandez-Armesto. "And I was mugged once while at Oxford."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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