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Newsletter /Our 31 th year/ February 2012/ Vol. 32, No.2
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’91 alumna hosts hall of fame
Suzanne Malveaux, ’91,
of CNN will host the
Thursday, Jan. 26 National
Association of Black
Journalists Hall of Fame
induction and reception at
the Newseum in
Washington, D.C. This
year’s inductees are Gwen Ifill of
“Washington Week” on PBS; Pat Harvey of
CBS2-Los Angeles; Ruth Allen Ollison,
longtime Texas broadcast journalist, who
now leads a ministry in her home state;
Johnathan Rodgers, recently retired TV One
president and CEO, and a posthumous
induction to Wallace Terry, trailblazing civil
rights era journalist and author of “Bloods,”
the oral history of blacks in the Vietnam
war. WABE-Atlanta public radio news
director Michael Fields will receive the Ida
B. Wells Award. Malveaux is anchor of the
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. edition of CNN
Newsroom.
Reginald Stuart, ’71,
in Diverse Issues in
Higher Education
magazine, wrote about
the Hampton
University Proton
Therapy Institute, one
of eight centers in the
United States and only
center in the densely populated mid-Atlantic
region. Stuart wrote this of the two-story,
$225 million center: “Working as a team,
they have been helping cancer patients learn
whether they employ proton therapy as an
alternative to traditional therapeutic
radiation and chemotherapy treatments in
fighting the life-threatening disease. It
focuses on treating adults with prostate,
breast, lung and eye cancers and children
with cancer. Read the entire piece here.
Kip Branch, ’79, wrote
in the Herald Sun of
Durham, N.C., about the
death of one of his prize
students, a North
Carolina Central
University alum: “By any
measure Allen Wilson
was a star.
But you wouldn’t have known it if you
watched the almost 300-pound black man
walk across a field or, in my case, through
the halls of the Farrison-Newton Building on
the campus of N.C. Central University
during the late 1980s when he was a student
in our newly created media journalism
program, which today is heralded as one of
the best in the nation among historically
black colleges.” Read the entire story here.
Branch is a 2006 NABJ Journalism Educator
of the Year and is now an associate
professor at the Elizabeth City State
University Department of Language,
Literature and Communications, which
includes journalism.
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Media Merry-Go-Round, 2011; a quick look
back so we know where we’re going in 2012
January Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network launched; At end of 2010, Facebook surpasssed
Google as most-visited web site, with 500-plus investors, it may be ready for an IPO; Internet
advertising surpassed newspaper advertising; Las Vegas conference featured iPad knockoffs, 4G
technology that can turn on washing machines and other technology; Conservative pundit Tucker
Carlson “overspoke” that embattled NFL star Michael Vick should be “executed”; Carole
Simpson self-published a memoir “News Lady”; Mike Days named managing editor of Philly
Inquirer; Bryan Monroe joined CNN.com/politics
February Huffington Post purchased for $315 million by
AOL
March A so-called “Expose” of a National Public Radio fund
raiser turned out to be creatively edited. The smear was
criticized by conservative shock jock Glenn Beck; The
Internet surpassed newspapers as information source; Unity-
Journalists of Color firestorm [NABJ considered withdrawing,
then followed through and walked away]; Bob Herbert ends New York Times column after 18
years. Charles Blow emerges as the African-American voice on those pages.
April Colorado Board of Regents votes to
close the University of Colorado J-school;
Pulitzer prizes to the Los Angeles Times for
the Bell, Calif. investigation, et al [J-’80
classmate Jeffrey Gottlieb was the lead writer
of that watchdog report]
May Scott Pelley named anchor of CBS
Evening News [The previous week, Katie
Couric resigned after five years. Laura Logan
did her chilling “60 Minutes” interview about
her sexual assault in Egypt during the “Arab spring.”]; Couric’s farewell from CBS is a newsy 5-
minute retrospective; Oprah’s so-long [not farewell] tour; her show has been a staple since 1986
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Media Merry Go Round/Continued
June Dean Bacquet, an African-American, was named managing editor of the New York
Times; Jill Abramson becomes the first woman editor in chief of “The Gray Lady”; Huffington
Post claimed it surpassed NYTimes.com in web traffic, but New York Times management fired
back that AOL data inflated Huffington Post numbers; 700 newspaper layoffs, 2 percent of
workforce, at Gannett Co. [J-’80 classmate Betty Winston Baye was among the people cut]
August Dick Cheney’s new book about the Bush “43” years that promised “heads exploding in
Washington” brought a rebuke from former Secretary of State Colin Powell
October “Rock Center,” NBC media experiment
Compiled by Wayne Dawkins
PHOTOS: money.cnn.com [Huffington Post and AOL] sfgate.com [Dean Bacquet, Jill Abramson, Bill Keller of The New York Times]
Jobline & opportunites
.
American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio seeks a co-host for the “Marketplace Morning Report.”
For a complete job description and to apply online, follow this link.
Also, the public radio program, “On Being,” seeks a coordinating producer.
Here’s the link with details.
Comcast – that includes NBC Universal – seeks a senior manager, corporate communications, aka
digital content producer. Follow the link to the application here.
The 17th Minority Writers Seminar for experienced minority journalists is April 12-15 at the Freedom
Forum Diversity Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. This seminar is sponsored by the National Conference
of Editorial Foundation in partnership with the Diversity Institute. March 1 is the application deadline. To
apply, follow the link to the application here.
The application deadline (Feb. 1) for a 2012-13 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford is
approaching fast. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of journalism, by focusing on
innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. Each year, we give 20 outstanding individuals from around
the world the resources to pursue and test their ideas for improving the quality of news and information
reaching the public. We work closely with them, to help them make the most of the amazing creativity and
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We're committed to the diversity that is so important to the future of our craft, and we urge you to consider
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People/Continued from page 1
Betty Winston Baye, ’80, has been doing commentaries for WDRB-TV 41
Louisville, that market’s FOX affiliate. Click here for a peek and listen to
her work. Baye, former editorial writer/columnist with The Courier-Journal
of Louisville for two decades, is also doing comm. entaries for Louisville's
historic black radio station WLOU. In particular, she is contributing twice
monthly commentaries to “The Saturday Morning Solution Show,”
sponsored by historically black Simmons College of Kentucky.
“What Mumia’s case said about us: It divided many within black media circles and focused
attention on capital punishment. Now what? was written by E.R. Shipp, ’80, and published
in the TheRoot.com on Dec. 12.
Sports journalist Rob Parker, ’88, let us know that he anchored WDIV-TV 4 News, Detroit
on Dec. 30 and New Year’s Eve. Classmate and fellow sports journalist George Bundy Smith,
’88, meanwhile was doing an ESPN preview on a dramatic Broncos-Chiefs game featuring
lighting rod Tim Tebow vs. the quarterback he replaced, Kyle Orton, who was traded.
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