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?
Possible speakers:
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.
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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:54 PM
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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.
Lillie
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From: FOR THE MINORITIES AND COMMUNICATION DIV. OF AEJMC
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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:49 PM
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Subject: Re: Losses of Boyd, Bradley, Setbacks for Diversity?
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:
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:
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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Department of Mass Communications & Theatre Arts
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