The Institute for Journalism Education

Robert C. Maynard (Ep. 12, 2025)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents a tribute to pioneering journalist the late Robert C. Maynard, newspaper publisher, editor and former owner of the Oakland Tribune newspaper, the first African American to own a major daily newspaper, with an interview recorded in 1985. Maynard died in August 1993.

Robert C. Maynard (Ep. 50, 2018)

Producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. presents an interview recorded in 1985 with the late Robert C. Maynard, the charismatic, dynamic and award-winning journalist, columnist, newspaper publisher and editor, and former owner of the Oakland Tribune newspaper. Maynard died in 1993.