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SUMMER 2017 ISSUE APRIL RYANNABJ’S JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR Permission from The Baltimore Sun B:8.75” T:7.75” S:7” #EbonyOwes SUMMER 2017 | Vol. 35, No. 2 Official Publication of the is the canary National Association of Black Journalists NABJ Staff INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR in the coal mine Shirley Carswell MEMBERSHIP MANAGER Veronique Dodson FINANCE MANAGER Nathaniel Chambers SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER Kerwin Speight PAGE DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT 18 JoAnne Lyons Wooten DEVELOPMENT CONCIERGE Heidi Stevens PROJECT MANAGER Angela Robinson STAFF ACCOUNTANT Sharon Odle April Ryan is making history NABJ Journal Staff on the White House beat B:11.5” S:9.75” T:10.5” 6 PUBLISHER Sarah Glover EDITOR Zuri Berry DEPUTY EDITOR Shauntel Lowe Ron Thomas reinvented COPY EDITOR 12 himself as an educator Benét J. Wilson CIRCULATION MANAGER Veronique Dodson Contributors Danny Garrett This is what inspiring Autumn A. 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SUITE 2900, CHICAGO, IL 60601, P:312.297.9600 60601, IL CHICAGO, SUITE 2900, AVE. MICHIGAN 233 N. BURRELL MECHANICAL BURRELL ACCOUNT MANAGER From the President elcome to the NABJ Journal convention edition. This year’s WNABJ convention theme — “Power Up and Break Through” — speaks to the moments and successes NABJ and its members NABJ BOARD OF DIRECTORS have shared over the last year. PRESIDENT In this edition, NABJ celebrates Sarah Glover the work of NABJ Journalist of NBC Owned Television Stations the Year April Ryan, a 30-year journalism veteran. Ryan has VICE PRESIDENT/PRINT COMING TO covered Washington politics Marlon A. Walker and the White House under four Atlanta Journal-Constitution different administrations, and in the past year she has been thrust VICE PRESIDENT/DIGITAL into the national spotlight for her Benét J. Wilson pointed questions and aggressive Aviation Queen LLC coverage of the Trump White House. And yet Ryan has managed to meet VICE PRESIDENT/BROADCAST many challenges with grace and self- Dorothy Tucker confidence. WBBM-TV DETROIT A special #NABJCongrats to all of this year’s special honors and Hall of Fame Honorees. Your work SECRETARY proves journalism excellence happens every day. Cheryl Smith At a time when the Fourth Estate continues to grapple with media more focused on I Messenger News Group digital journalism, print publishers sometimes struggle with self-inflicted wounds amid HOUSE a declining industry. NABJ highlights the state of our most vulnerable members and the TREASURER impact of #EbonyOwes. Greg Morrison NABJ has seen many accomplishments during my first term as president: Bumper2BumperTV implementing zero-based budgeting to improve our financial operations and turning a deficit into a projected $1.2 million surplus in 2016. We’ve also begun to execute the PARLIAMENTARIAN NABJ Strategic Plan for 2017-2020 and we’ve bolstered our partnerships, notably with Dave Jordan the Ford Foundation, NBC/Comcast and the Poynter Institute, where we established the WSPA-TV inaugural Poynter-NABJ Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media. NABJ created the Black Male Media Project to #InspireBlackMen this spring which launched in 20 cities DIRECTOR, REGION I and provided professional development and mentoring to more than 500 black men Johann Calhoun interested in media careers. NABJ members have seen the impact firsthand over the last The Philadelphia Tribune year with more than 1,000 registrants partaking in NABJ Media Institute programming AD year-round. DIRECTOR, REGION II In addition to being NABJ’s first “NABJ Baby” president, I will also be the association’s first two-term president. As I embark on my second term, my goals for the next two years Vickie Thomas are to maintain fiscal responsibility, expand NABJ’s advocacy efforts, create an NABJ jobs WWJ/CBS Radio program and redevelop NABJ’s digital footprint by upgrading our website and creating a mobile app. DIRECTOR, REGION III I know the 2017 NABJ Convention experience in New Orleans will leave you energized, Gayle Hurd recharged and ready to tackle the year ahead. So be sure to save the date for our next WPTF-AM/NC News Network convention, Aug. 1-5, 2018, when NABJ will be in Detroit. I look forward to welcoming you to the Motor City. DIRECTOR, REGION IV Marcus Vanderberg Yours In Service, Yahoo Sports ACADEMIC REPRESENTATIVE NABJ CONVENTION Michelle Johnson Boston University Sarah Glover, NABJ President @sarah4nabj MEDIA-RELATED REPRESENTATIVE Aug. 1-5 Tanzi West-Barbour SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO: ADVERTISING ADDRESS ALL Policy Innovators for Education National Association of Black INQUIRIES: CORRESPONDENCE TO: Journalists Advertising Inquiries: NABJ Journal STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE 1100 Knight Hall, Suite 3100 (301) 405-0248 1100 Knight Hall, Suite 3100 Wilton Charles Jackson II College Park, MD 20742 College Park, MD 20742 Louisiana State University 2018 (301) 405-0248 4 | National Association of Black Journalists | www.nabj.org | Summer 2017 Summer 2017 | www.nabj.org | National Association of Black Journalists | 5 aul Jennings was the first She has carried those traits with African-American to write and MOMENTS THAT DEFINED HER her through her career. Ppublish a memoir, “A Colored Ryan’s tenacious brand of journal- Ryan was a looming journalistic Man’s Reminiscences of James Madi- ism goes back to the beginning of presence during the George W. Bush son,” about the White House in 1865. her White House career during the administration as the country faced Harry S. McAlpin, in 1944, was the first Clinton administration. At the time, dramatic challenges following the African-American journalist to cover she took a six-nation trip to Africa terrorist attacks on 9/11, the begin- a White House press conference. with the president, who was on the ning of the war in Iraq in 2003 and And Alice Dunnigan, in 1948, was the brink of making a formal federal the fallout of Hurricane Katrina in first African-American woman to be apology on slavery (which never 2005. Her continued focus on black a White House correspondent and member of the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries. The latest in this list of remarkable “... She’s been consistent representing black journalists and trailblazers who have sought accountability for black America, and I couldn’t be happier for black America in the White House is 30-year veteran April D. Ryan, NABJ’s her that she’s getting this recognition that Journalist of the Year for 2017. By no means was it lost upon the board she so truly deserves.” who chose her for this honor that she continues the legacy of McAlpin and Dunnigan. Ryan has been the White came). President Bill Clinton appar- issues may not have been popular at House correspondent for American ently had a moment of clarity about the time, but she never strayed from Urban Radio Networks (AURN) since how far African-Americans had to her focus. In the run-up to the Iraq 1997, and she is now covering her rise in the U.S. after witnessing Ryan War, she questioned President Bush fourth presidential administration. and other black reporters holding about the Black Caucus’s call for di- What makes Ryan special is her abil- hands, engaged in solemn prayer, plomacy and asked him, “How is your ity to recognize that she is in a place on the docks outside the Door of No faith guiding you?” The question, where she can capitalize on multiple Return in Senegal. which spurred ridicule at the time, opportunities. The more-than-symbolic gesture further cemented Ryan’s instincts as “For me, as one of the individuals came after the Senegalese cura- a political observer. Responding to who signed off on her being on board tor described the graphic nature of her question, Bush revealed a tearful 20 years ago, she’s been consistent Gorée Island’s Maison des Esclaves and reflective side, saying that he throughout her two decades with us, (House of Slaves), the last stop be- prayed for the safety of U.S.