Guild Freelancers protests reporter’s expulsion from SFPD press conference

Pacific Media Workers Guild January 26, 2017March 8, 2020 0 comment

The expulsion of 48 Hills reporter Sana Saleem from a San Francisco Police Department press conference on Jan. 18 has prompted Guild Freelancers chair David Bacon to send a protest letter reminding Police Chief William Scott and Mayor Ed Lee that field officers and office staff must respect the constitutional rights of all journalists including freelancers such as Saleem.

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Dori J. Maynard, diversity advocate in journalism, dies at 56

Michael Applegate February 27, 2015March 8, 2020 0 comment

Dori J. Maynard, a journalist who was at the forefront of the campaign to make the American news media a more accurate mirror of American diversity, died on Tuesday at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 56. The cause was lung cancer, her mother, Liz Rosen, said. At her death, Ms. Maynard was the […]