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Putting Castro’s Regime in Perspective
Simeon Booker, Jet magazine’s Washington bureau chief for 53 years, was a leading reporter on the Fidel Castro story for Jet and its sister publication Ebony, when Castro came to power in 1959. Carol Booker, a fellow journalist and co-author with him of Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement (2013), asked him to recall Cuba from his reporting days, starting with his arrival in Havana shortly after Castro’s army defeated Fulgencio Batista, the dictator long supported by the United States government.
Pages from the Archives – the Black Press and Castro
Coverage of the first days of Castro's triumph over the U.S.-backed Batista government was practically giddy – as it was in most of the leading black newspapers and magazines in 1959 and 1960. E.R. Shipp looks at the initial honeymoon and later waning relationship between the Castro government and the U.S. black press.
Chicken for Fish - Comedy in Cuba
Cuban filmmaker Gloria Rolando has had her share of run-ins with officials over contemporary social commentary in her documentaries about Afro-Cuban contribution to society and interaction with the government. She tells Maryland Public Television reporter Charles Robinson that a popular comedian in Cuba, however, has managed to use topical humor in his weekly television show to tweak, if not outright criticize, the government, to great success.
Getting the Message Out in Cuba without Official Advertising
Imagine a world where there is no advertising. No interruptions of your programs, no billboards on the roads and no ads cluttering up your newspaper. Welcome to Cuba. The island nation is one of the few countries that do not allow commercials in state-run media. Now that the Cuban government has begun to allow some degree of private enterprise, Patricia Wheeler, an advertising professor in Morgan’s Department of Strategic Communications, questions how emerging business owners can get the word out about their products and services.
Can Mapping Strategy Make Journalists Safer?
In the wake of police roughing up journalists covering the tensions following a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, several posts on social networks have asked if there’s a way to track and document the attacks against journalists there. If there were, it would probably look something like the Periodistas en Riesgo (Journalists at Risk) map of Mexico, a project by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Freedom House that registers attacks against journalists in the country. The Knight International Media Innovators allow MGJR to reprint an article on the subject written by Javier Garza, an ICFJ fellow based in Mexico City.
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