Hey Gang,

A colleague needs your help. Please contact Tony directly if that is
your area of expertise.

At SSCA I need someone who has something on Latin American Media and
Politics, if you know anyone.  The session is Thursday 3/29 at 3:30.

Tony


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Tony DeMars
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Department of Mass Communications
University of North Carolina-Pembroke
P. O. Box 1510
Pembroke, NC  28372-1510
910-521-6598; 910-522-5795 fax


LILLIE FEARS wrote:

> Excellent suggestions, Linda.
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> From: Shockley, Linda [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:12 PM
> To: LILLIE FEARS; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: Losses of Boyd, Bradley, Setbacks for Diversity?
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> Possible speakers:
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> George Curry, a friend to Gerald Boyd and his co-founder of the
> Greater St. Louis ABJ and director of their first high school
> workshop, former Bob Knight Award winner, former Washington
> correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, now editor of the National
> Newspaper Publishers Association is right in Washington .
>
> Charlayne Hunter Gault of CNN, and NPR (who might be in Africa), a
> dear friend of Ed Bradley's, herself a former NY Times reporter.
>
> Not least of all would be Robin Stone, widow of Gerald, former Essence
> and NY Times style editor, former president of NYABJ --which ran a
> very successful high school workshop program, and author
> (http://www.robinstone.com/home.asp).
>
> I'm not sure how the MAC/Scholastic luncheon works but whomever the
> counterparts are in scholastic should be able to work through these
> extraordinary circumstances/opportunities.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: FOR THE MINORITIES AND COMMUNICATION DIV. OF AEJMC
>     [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LILLIE FEARS
>     Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:54 PM
>     To: [log in to unmask]
>     Subject: Re: Losses of Boyd, Bradley, Setbacks for Diversity?
>
>     Ladies, this would be a great way to integrate these topics
>     (memorials) into our programming---that is to get a luncheon
>     speaker who can cover each person.  I just hope we include the
>     great John H. Johnson in the tributes. Remember he passed right in
>     the middle of our convention in San Antonio.
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>     Lillie
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>     From: FOR THE MINORITIES AND COMMUNICATION DIV. OF AEJMC
>     [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Camilla Gant
>     Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:49 PM
>     To: [log in to unmask]
>     Subject: Re: Losses of Boyd, Bradley, Setbacks for Diversity?
>
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>
>     Anita,
>
>     This is a great idea, but unfortunately, I have already committed
>     all of MAC's programming chips.  Alternative venues might be
>     pursuing a refereed research presentation or nominating a
>     Scholastic Journalism/MAC luncheon speaker to address the issue,
>     including a tribute to Boyd, Bradley, and other trailblazers as
>     well as a critical discussion of the import of advancing diversity
>     excellence in the newsroom.
>
>     Camilla
>
>     At 08:48 AM 11/27/2006 -0800, Anita Fleming-Rife wrote:
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>     Camilla,
>          At the August convention, MAC sponsored a session titled,
>     "Elders in the Field,"  which celebrated the lives of Thomas C.
>     Fleming, Samuel Yette and Clint Wilson. It may be a worthwhile
>     idea to have a session this year that focuses on these
>     trailblazers (Boyd and Bradley).  Perhaps, we could think about it
>     as a mini-plenary--is that possible?
>
>     "George L. Daniels" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>     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 were trailblazers.  In writing about this on my
>     blog <http://bamaproducer.blogspot.com/>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.
>
>
>
>     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.
>
>
>
>     What does this mean for efforts to diversify the ranks of American
>     news organizations?
>
>
>
>     Earlier this month, the National Association of Black Journalists
>     posted a statement about the resignations of Dean Baquet and Debra
>     Adams Simmons
>     <http://www.nabj.org/newsroom/news_releases/story/52832p-81441c.html>
>     expressing its concern about what these actions means for diversity.
>
>
>
>     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.
>
>
>
>     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?
>
>
>
>     I post this on the MAC list in hopes of generating some discussion
>     and perhaps interest.
>
>
>
>     Our MAC Vice Head and Program Chair Camilla Gant would be the one
>     to take any action should that be in order.
>
>
>
>     George Daniels
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>     Anita Fleming-Rife
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>     I lift up mine eyes from whence cometh my help. . . .
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>     Camilla Gant, Ph.D.
>     Faculty Assistant to the President
>     Associate Professor
>     Department of Mass Communications & Theatre Arts
>     University of West Georgia
>