"There was a time when I never thought I would consider working for Ebony. It was just that that wasn’t what I was interested in. But Time and Newsweek are no longer Time and Newsweek, and newspapers have shrunk. Journalism as we once knew it is gone."

Sylvester Monroe, a journalist who, over the course of four decades, worked for Newsweek, Time, the San Jose Mercury News and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but moved to Ebony in 2006. CJR on the return of minority writers to the minority press.