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How Will African Americans Get the News?

By Ed Gordon

Published April 20, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Ed Gordon speaks with two veterans of the news media: Richard Prince, copy editor for The Washington Post and author of the online column "Prince's Journal-isms" for the Maynard Institute; and Elinor Ruth Tatum, editor-in-chief of The New York Amsterdam News, one of the leading black weekly newspapers in the United States.

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