Maynard was once asked what her middle initial, “J,” stood for. “Journalism,” she responded, and in a long career in the field she worked as a reporter for such papers as the Bakersfield Californian and the Detroit Free Press.
But it was as the head of the Oakland-based Maynard Institute — co-founded by her father, a longtime journalist who became the first African-American to own a major metropolitan newspaper — that she had the greatest impact, colleagues said.
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Maynard was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. Her father had a Nieman in 1966, making the pair the first father-daughter pair to earn that honor.
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