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With the recent suicide of designer Kate Spade, newsrooms may be grappling with how to communicate on a sensitive topic.  Here's some advice from the Poynter Institute:
http://amp.poynter.org/news/5-ways-prepare-your-newsroom-cover-suicide-m...

The Poynter Institute has prepared advice on how to cover words and images perceived as racist, in the wake of this weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
https://www.poynter.org/2017/how-journalists-should-handle-racist-words-...

After more than 20 years behind the microphone in radio, Terry James is going to try television.  He's been hired as a newscast producer at WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities.  James recently finished his degree at Western Illinois University, but has a resume that goes back to 1996 and includes stints at stations in Milwaukee, Bloomington, the Quad Cities and for the Nebraska Radio Network.