The National Association of Black Journalists officially honored Belmont professor Dr. Sybril Bennett as its 2015 Journalism Educator of the Year Wednesday. Bennett received the award in recognition of her “service, commitment and academic guidance,” including her nomination as a finalist for Belmont’s highest teaching honor–the Virginia Chaney Teaching Award–in 2012, and her role as the National Convention program chair in Philadelphia in 2011. She also received the NABJ Reg

On March 28, The New York Times established a paywall on its website that will require a subscription in order to view more than an allotted 20 free articles per month. When the Times initially floated the announcement that this was going down, I wanted to bang my head against the wall. No one wants to pay for something that’s been free for years, something that asked for just a couple of keystrokes before it gave you “all the news that’s fit to print.” Fishbowl NY, a media b