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A child of immigrants from Barbados who owned a small trucking concern in Brooklyn, Maynard dropped out of high school to write for neighborhood and ethnic publications. In 1961 he joined the York (Pa.) Gazette and Daily as a reporter. He became a Nieman fellow in journalism at Harvard, then was hired by the Washington Post, "where I went from covering riots to covering the White House." He left in 1977 for the Berkeley campus of the University of California to establish a training program for minority journalists, which he ran, in his words, "like a bootcamp." Maynard applies the same tough standards to his own work. "There is no way for a poor man to get to own a newspaper," he says, "unless it is a paper that requires a lot of himself.'' ·