NABJ Journalist of the Year Jemele Hill
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NABJ Staff EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT Drew Berry DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Kaylan Somerville FINANCE MANAGER Nathaniel Chambers MEMBERSHIP MANAGER Veronique Dodson PROGRAM ASSOCIATE Jovan Riley STAFF ACCOUNTANT Sharon Odle NABJ Journal Staff PUBLISHER Sarah Glover 14 / NABJ Journalist of EDITOR the Year Jemele Hill Benét J. Wilson COPY EDITORS Benét J. Wilson Marlon A. Walker Denise Clay Rochelle Riley CIRCULATION MANAGER Veronique Dodson DESIGN AND LAYOUT Marc Adams 10 / What to Expect in Detroit, 11 / Lifetime Achievement - A city on the Rise Beverly White Contributors Terry Allen Joyce Philippe Johann Calhoun Chastity Pratt Dawsey 6 / NABJ Detroit 21 / 2018 NABJ 28 / NABJ Educator of Kelley L. Carter Rochelle Riley Convention Preview Hall of Fame - the Year - Alicia Nails Terry Collins Tierra Smith Imani Crenshaw William C. Rhoden Katrease Stafford Angelique Fullwood Vickie Thomas 12 / Legacy - 34 / Visual Task Force Stephanie Guerilus Morris Thompson Robert G. McGruder 27 / Emerging - Felecia Henderson Taylor Harris DeWayne Wickham Journalist of the Year - Jeannine Hunter Oralander Williams Ken Lemon Natasha Alford Benét J. Wilson 20 / Everett Marshburn 43 / NABJ Members Les Payne - Journalist of on the Move 26 / Community Distinction Copywright 2018 Service Award - The National Association of Rhonda Walker Black Journalists National Association of Black Journalists SUMMER 2018 | NABJ.ORG | 3 From the President Dear NABJ Family: I am delighted to welcome you to the Summer 2018 edition of the NABJ Journal. We are happy to bring the NABJ Convention back to the Motor City for the first time since 1992. Among those joining us in Detroit this year are NABJ Board of Directors legendary actor, producer and director Tyler Perry; political commentator Roland Martin; and hometown PRESIDENT hero Jemele Hill of The Undefeated, who is also NABJ’s Sarah Glover, Journalist of the Year. Social Media Editor, NBC Owned Television Stations This issue of the Journal will celebrate NABJ’s best VICE PRESIDENT/PRINT and brightest as they receive the association’s highest Marlon A. Walker, honors, including Everett L. Marshburn of Milwaukee The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Public Television for Journalist of Distinction, long-time Detroit Free Press executive editor Robert G. “Bob” VICE PRESIDENT/DIGITAL McGruder for the 2018 NABJ Legacy Award and NBC Roland S. Martin, Southern California/KNBC’s Beverly White for the 2018 CEO, NuVision Media Inc. Chuck Stone Lifetime Achievement Award VICE PRESIDENT/BROADCAST We will also induct five honorees — Albert Dunmore (posthumous), Victoria Jones (posthumous), Louis Martin Dorothy Tucker, WBBM-TV (posthumous), William Rhoden and Bob Ray Sanders — into the NABJ Hall of Fame for their lasting contributions to journalism and the impact they made in the communities they served. SECRETARY Cheryl Smith, This year’s convention theme is “Driving Journalism, Technology and Trust”, and our workshops are designed Publisher/Editor I Messenger News Group to provide invaluable training that members can use to help them remain relevant in their newsrooms. Our plenary sessions will cover technology, new media, civil rights and race. TREASURER Greg Morrison, It’s been a busy year for NABJ so far. We kicked off 2018 off by announcing a $200,000 grant from the Democracy Executive Producer and Owner, Fund to help NABJ build up its national office staff. The board of directors chose Miami and Houston to host Bumper2BumperTV our 2019 and 2021 conventions. We mourned the loss of Founder Les Payne and long-time diversity advocate PARLIAMENTARIAN Walterene Swanston-NuevaEspana. Melanie Burney, Reporter, Philadelphia Media Network We held successful regional conferences in Atlanta, New York City and Indianapolis and continued to offer training for our members via our webinar series. We advocated for black journalists in newsrooms across the REGION I country and helped the Associated Press further advance fair coverage of blacks and other communities of color Johann Calhoun, by incorporating changes to its respected Stylebook. The Philadelphia Tribune NABJ produced its second Black Male Media Project, with concurrent programs in two dozen cities nationwide DIRECTOR, REGION II produced by NABJ affiliate chapters. And our members also offered support for black women in media on social Vickie Thomas, media with the advent of the NABJ Black Women’s Media Project following the New Orleans convention. Reporter, WWJ//CBS Radio DIRECTOR, REGION III NABJ continues to be relevant to both it’s members and the journalism industry as a whole by serving both Ken Lemon, groups with passion, power and purpose. I hope you all enjoy this year’s NABJ Journal convention issue and that Reporter, Cox Media Group - WSOC Charlotte you’ll feel energized to continue to tell the stories of our communities after reading the many stories of black excellence in media. DIRECTOR, REGION IV Terry Collins, Yours in Service, Freelance Journalist ACADEMIC REPRESENTATIVE Michelle Johnson, Associate Professor of the Practice, Sarah Glover Boston University President, National Association of Black Journalists @sarah4nabj MEDIA-RELATED REPRESENTATIVE Tanzi West-Barbour, SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: ADDRESS ALL Policy Innovators for Education National Association Advertising Inquiries: CORRESPONDENCE TO: STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE of Black Journalists (301) 405-0248 NABJ Journal Kyra Azore, 1100 Knight Hall, Suite 3100 1100 Knight Hall, Suite 3100 Howard University College Park, MD 20742 College Park, MD 20742 4 | NABJ.ORG | SUMMER 2018 National Association of Black Journalists sites such as Facebook. We are literally fighting for the soul of journalism and fighting to maintain diversity in that 3,000 journalists of industry. The convention’s theme is “Driving Journalism, Technology and Trust” NABJ to descend on “There will always be a need for stories to be told; the only thing that will change is how they’re delivered,” said Convention Chair Eva Coleman, an executive Detroit in August producer with the Frisco (Texas) Independent School District’s television station. “As technology rapidly changes, we understand the need to evolve. We’re Detroit has spent years on a the Age of Trump. ensuring our members are By Rochelle Riley roller coaster of demographic, equipped with everything financial and cultural highs and “I am thrilled that the NABJ has necessary to remain a driving lows leading to chosen Detroit for its national and trusted force in an ever- a bankruptcy and now conference this summer and changing technological world.” renaissance that has gained can’t think of a better place for national attention and drawn it,” said Mayor Mike Duggan a Conventioneers will see a Detroit real estate prospectors to member of a Host Committee whose downtown and Midtown Motown like gold prospectors to that rivals the one convened have been transformed into a Sutter’s Mill. for the 2006 Super Bowl. It bustling urban destination, drawing includes Quicken Loans Founder hundreds of residents and tourists The city is attempting to reinvent Dan Gilbert, former mayor Dennis to new restaurants, clubs and stores itself as a 21st-Century mecca Archer, Motown Museum CEO in properties mostly owned by for millennials as well as a long- Robin Terry and Detroit Metro Gilbert, who owns or controls about awaited better place for longtime Convention & Visitors Bureau CEO 100 properties downtown. Moving residents who didn’t give up on Larry Alexander. his employees into downtown’s 7.2 the Motor City. square miles has revitalized the “Professional journalists play a area. As residents debate whether vital role in our democracy, and the renaissance is reaching it’s so very important that our Local planners said all Detroiters, the city will get a newsrooms, like our government, conventioneers also may be report card from outsiders in reflect the diverse communities surprised by what they see away August, when one of the largest they serve,” Duggan said. from downtown: iconic locations gatherings of journalists and such as Baker’s Keyboard newsmakers in America As honorary co-chair of the Lounge, one of the oldest convenes here for the National convention with my friend and continuously operating jazz Association of Black Journalists’ ESPN star Jemele Hill (the last clubs in the world; the Motown annual convention. time they turned Museum where Marvin Gaye and us loose we took 900 kids to see the Supremes got their start; the About 3,000 reporters, editors, “Black Panther”, I can’t wait to dueling Lafayette and American producers, photographers and say at convention’s end, with a Coney Islands (yes, we’ve got students landed at the GM nod to Kool Moe Dee: How ya like hot dog wars), and Belle Isle, run Renaissance Center Marriott us now? as a state park with a beach, for five days of workshops, conservatory and aquarium. forums, panel discussions The annual convention comes and conversations. NABJ, like as media outlets nationwide “The working journalists visiting Detroit, is working on reinventing struggle to maintain audiences Detroit for the NABJ convention itself in a digital age and that increasingly get much of will find a city on the mend,” rebuilding relationships between their news coverage on mobile said Vincent McCraw, president journalists and consumers in devices and from social media of Detroit NABJ and an editor at the Detroit News. “There are 6 | NABJ.ORG | SUMMER 2018 National Association of Black Journalists nuances to Detroit’s revival, and in a special fund-raising concert Arthur Ashe. the country will set up shop to it can be seen not just downtown at Chene Park co-sponsored interview or share information and Midtown, but in some of the by Nissan and the Detroit NABJ “As a member of the local board with convention registrants. neighborhoods. We encourage chapter. at the time, I just remember NABJ has a long-standing people to come see us with fresh everyone being blown away by reputation as the place where eyes and open minds.” NABJ meets in a different the convention and the Detroit many black journalists landed city every year.