As many of you may know, the AEJMC mid-winter meeting is scheduled for next
weekend (Dec. 1-3), and at this point I do not have any programming chips to
add another panel.  That said, I have proposed to modify the title of an
existing panel(Advancing Diversity Excellence: Confronting Challenges in the
Classroom & Newsroom), which would allow MAC to add a panelist to address the
issue of diversification efforts in the newsroom.  Many thanks, George, for
sharing with the listserv.


Camilla

Quoting "George L. Daniels" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Some of us are just learning this morning about yesterday's passing
> of former New York Times Managing Editor Gerald Boyd.     This comes
> as a double-punch after just losing 60 Minutes' Ed Bradley a few
> weeks ago.
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> Both of these men w ere trailblazers.  In writing about this on my
> blog today, I linked to so many of the tributes to Boyd, who not only
> was a major champion for diversity in the newsroom, but also of
> journalism education, working recently with Columbia University
> School of Journalism.
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> I know we're days away from the AEJMC Winter Meeting  (New Orleans)
> and that division heads are already reviewing the various proposals,
> I think Washington, DC is the ideal place for the MAC Division and/or
> the Commission on the Status of Minorities to sponsor a type of
> symposium or session that both commemorates the accomplishments of
> these men who've passed on but also addresses the recent demise of at
> least two other top editors at major newspapers.
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> What does this mean for efforts to diversify the ranks of American
> news organizations?
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> Earlier this month, the National Association of Black Journalists
> posted a statement about the resignations of Dean Baquet and Debra
> Adams Simmons expressing its concern about what these actions means
> for diversity.
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> There certainly should be a way for us as journalism faculty to help
> students learn more about the legacies of Boyd and Bradley, while
> preparing them for the leadership challenges that can short-circuit
> signature leadership roles for any journalist, minority or otherwise.
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> In a manuscript some of my UGA colleagues and I recent submitted
> about internal labor markets and newsroom diversity, I made reference
> to the growing number of minority journalists who are leading daily
> newspapers (Greg Moore at Denver Post, Ronnie Agnew at Jackson
> Clarion Ledger, Otis Sanford at the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Bennie
> Ivory at the Lousville Courier Journal).    Pardon the cliche, but in
> many ways it seems like we're in the best of times and (with these
> recent developments) the worst of times too.    Maybe our diversity
> discussion has to really shift because of what's happening at
> newspapers nationwide?  Or should it?
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> I post this on the MAC list in hopes of generating some discussion
> and perhaps interest.
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> Our MAC Vice Head and Program Chair Camilla Gant would be the one to
> take any action should that be in order.
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> George Daniels
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> U. Alabama
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