Journal-isms Roundtable

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 The Journal-isms™ Roundtable is a dinner group of more than 50 current and former journalists, authors and editors that meets every month, usually at Sunday brunch but sometimes on a Tuesday.  Since 1999, the group, led by Journal-isms™ founder and journalist Richard Prince and veteran journalists Paul Delaney, Betty Anne Williams and the late Walt Swanston-NuevaEspana, have hosted journalists, newsmakers and other personalities to have lively, informative and provocative conversations over good food and drink. Ivan Roman later joined the organizing team. Here’s a list of the speakers and events over the past years: 

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Upcoming: Thursday, April 11, 2024

 

Feb. 27, 2024

Who will be next, and what are you going to do about it?

We’re discussing the state of the news industry, particularly newspapers, and what journalists can do to survive the collapse of the traditional business models. Find the successful operations? Go to the nonprofits?  Start one?
 
Panelists:
 
 Danielle Coffey, president and CEO, News/Media Alliance, representing 2,000 news and magazine media outlets worldwide
 
Kim Kleman, executive director, Report for America
 
— Hermione Malone, head of emerging markets, American Journalism Project. “Hermione oversees the implementation of our Local Philanthropy Partnerships and the establishment and incubation of startup organizations alongside a coalition of community stakeholders, local philanthropies, and management talent.” 
 
— Eric Ortiz, transformational leader, community builder, and executive director of the Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation; author of “5 Ways Newspapers Can Make Money” < http://tinyurl.com/uwtkyarm >
 
Elodie Mailliet-Storm, CEO, CatchLight
 
— Tracie Powell, CEO, The Pivot Fund < https://thepivotfund.org/>, “a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to investing $500 million into independent BIPOC-led community news.” 
 

Also “in the room”:

Kevin Merida, former executive editor, Los Angeles Times (tentative)

 
Simulcast on Facebook at <://www.facebook.com/RPjournalisms/ >

YouTube video:  https://youtu.be/ejCksrsrVMQ

 

Jan. 22, 2024

Dictator on ‘Day One’:  “How Journalists Can Counter the Growing Threat of Authoritarianism”

Barbara Arnwine, president and founder, Transformative Justice Coalition, most recently working on restoring the gutted parts of the Voting Rights Act

< https://www.aclu.org/cases/naacp-v-arkansas-board-of-apportionment​ >

Gilbert Bailon, veteran journalist now executive editor of WBEZ in Chicago. The station, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago are part of the Democracy Solutions Project. <https://www.wbez.org/collections/the-democracy-solutions-project/256 >

Jennifer Dresden, policy advocate, Project Democracy; primary author, “The Authoritarian Playbook: How reporters can contextualize and cover authoritarian threats as distinct from politics-as-usual

Louise Dubé, CEO, iCivics. iCivics was founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2009. “We champion equitable, non-partisan civic education so that the practice of democracy is learned by each new generation.” https://www.icivics.org/our-team

Gary Fields, Associated Press reporter, member of AP’s Democracy Team. < https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-sweeping-democracy-journalism-initiative >

Julie Millican, vice president of Media Matters for America. < Julie Millican | Media Matters for America >

Charles Whitaker, dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.< https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/directory/faculty/charles-whitaker.html >

Griff Witte, who heads the Democracy team in the Washington Post newsroom.< Griff Witte named editor of The Post’s Democracy Team – The Washington Post >  

YouTube video < https://youtu.be/GrpB06VoJq0 >

Column: < https://tinyurl.com/3vn5byv7 >

 

Dec. 3, 2023

Serafín Morán Santiago

 

“Cuba: Victim, Villain or Both?”

Cuba has consistently been denounced by press-freedom and human rights groups as a repressive country that persecutes independent journalists, Black and white alike. Yet it holds a fascination for some journalists who visit, find community in the rich culture, especially of Afro-Cubans on the island, and come back to the United States to denounce the U.S. embargo with public thanks from Cuba’s rulers.

How do we reconcile these two views of Cuba?

With a translator to help navigate, we discussed this with:

— Serafin Moran, Afro-Cuban journalist who won exile in the United States
https://tinyurl.com/4e8y7hs7
https://fundamedios.us/rsf-y-fundamedios-usa-agradecen-asilo-concedido-a-periodista-cubano/

 Rocio Baro, Afro-Cuban native who is director of communications for “Fondo de Arte Joven,” a platform that supports young Cuban artists in music and visual arts. She is in the U.S. as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
https://cronkite.asu.edu/global-initiatives/humphrey-journalism-program/fellows/ >

— Dagmar Thiel, CEO of Fundamedios < https://www.fundamedios.org/>, who in 2021 moderated and helped organize National Press Club Forum, “Latin American Press Under Siege”
https://www.padf.org/democracy-governance-and-human-rights/press-under-siege/

— Darcy Borrero Batista, journalist and human rights defender. She was part of a cross-border investigation in 19 countries, including Cuba, “Violence During Quarantine,” which just won a One World Media Award.

She wrote on LinkedIn, “WE WON:) all Cubans… especially the more than 1000 women who, as a result of this research, raised their voices to tell their birth experiences. I celebrate for them [including my mother] and for us authors, especially for those who created the enormous project that is Partos Rotos. Thank you for inviting me to collaborate! Cuban journalism is celebrating despite censorship, intimidation, harassment and exile. Congratulations to all!”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcy-borrero-batista-870262140/

Also see:

An Independent Afro-Cuban Journalist’s Statement to the Journal-isms Roundtable < https://tinyurl.com/4yz6fd6s > by Julio A. Rojas

Cuba has been in the consciousness of many Americans at least the rise of Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs invasion, and through every presidential election in which the Cuban American vote has been part of the story.

Co-organizers for this Roundtable were Ivan Roman, who is on our Roundtable organizing committee, and is a former executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and has made three reporting trips to Cuba, and Zita Arocha, a native of Cuba who is about to publish a memoir, “Guajira, the Cuba Girl,” which has already won a book prize from the Inlandia Institute. She is founder of Borderzine.com, a Poynter Institute project consultant, and a professor emeritus of communication at University of Texas El Paso. Some  know Zita from her work with NAHJ. Bio: https://borderzine.com/author/zarocha/

YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/jtHuUfjZrGg >

Column (English): The Embargo Made Them Do It: Journalists Accuse Cuba’s Rulers of Scapegoating

.< https://tinyurl.com/3aurwmdr >

Spanish:  El embargo les obligó a hacerlo: Periodistas acusan a los gobernantes de Cuba de ser chivos expiatorios < https://tinyurl.com/2er24nk5 >

Nov. 19, 2023

Malcolm Nance

One of our favorite Roundtable guests, Malcolm Nance, rejoined us for a Zoom Roundtable on Sunday, Nov. 19.
 
Malcolm is a former counterintelligence agent who has written books about ISIS, Team Trump’s “Plot to Betray America” and related subjects and was an MSNBC commentator. He is profiled by the International Spy Museum: < https://tinyurl.com/yx57mw5y >. Last we heard from Malcolm, in April 2022, he was joining the Ukrainian soldiers fighting the Russian invasion.
 
 
(Photo by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks, at Jan. 2020 Journal-isms Roundtable)  
 

We toasted Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins, first Black woman to become president of the Society of Professional Journalists.

(Photo: In September, incoming SPJ President Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins, right, speaks with Laura De la Garza Garcia in Las Vegas about the decision to not hold an SPJ conference in 2024. < https://tinyurl.com/28t6zjae > (Credit: SPJ)

We toasted the new NABJ – Philadelphia chapter, with Michael Days, president, and Melanie Burney vice president. (Photo: Melanie Burney at the lectern, with other members of the new NABJ – Philadelphia, at the Oct. 27 NABJ board meeting in the city, at which the chapter was approved.  Credit: Curtis Brown)

“In the House”:

Christopher​ Shell, fellow, American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who has surveyed African American attitudes toward the Israel-Hamas War gave a sneak preview of the results.

Video: Journal-isms Roundtable with Malcolm Nance, Nov. 19, 2023 (edited+) – YouTube

Column: Blacks Led Whites in Supporting Cease-Fire – journal-isms.com

Oct. 1, 2023, 1 p.m. EDT — “When the Authorities Abuse Journalists”

A hybrid Zoom and in-person session at the Washington, D.C., home of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press < http://www.rcfp.org/about.html >

 

With special guest: Roy Wood Jr., “”American humorist, stand-up comedian, radio personality, actor, producer, podcaster, and writer best known for his correspondent appearances on The Daily Show.” He entertained at last spring’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner < https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2398653/bio/ >

and:

Earl Caldwell, veteran journalist whose dilemma over a government demand to reveal his sources in the Black Panther organization < https://tinyurl.com/2p9t35wm > prompted the Reporters Committee’s founding in 1970 < https://www.rcfp.org/our-history/ >

— Veteran First Amendment lawyer Lee Levine, who is writing a book about Caldwell and his press-freedom case < https://tinyurl.com/ytxafufn >

Amr Alfiky, Egyptian photojournalist apprehended by the New York Police Department in 2020 in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood while filming NYPD officers. He is one of five photographers who on Sept. 5 won a settlement with the NYPD to improve its treatment of members of the press and improve reporters’ access to a protest to be able to record and report. < https://tinyurl.com/ypv835fy >

Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association and visual journalist, a negotiator of the Sept. 5 agreement with NYPD. < https://nationalpress.org/speaker/mickey-h-osterreicher/ >

Also “in the room”:

Eduardo Beckett, immigration lawyer who in September helped secure, after 15 years, U.S. asylum for Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto. < https://tinyurl.com/y3uxy2c5 >.

Column: < http://tinyurl.com/4swzr7zu >

YouTube video: < https://tinyurl.com/yc89enk4 >  

Full Earl Caldwell interview < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eHwz52fdek >

Column on Roy Wood’s appearance:  < https://tinyurl.com/27m63bhw >

Aug. 20, 2023

How the Democrats Plan to Wage the 2024 Presidential Campaign

 

Cedric Richmond (pictured), co-chair, Biden-Harris campaign

Michael Tyler, newly named communications director for the Biden-Harris Campaign
https://tinyurl.com/4jba8chr

and Quentin Fulks, principal deputy manager of the reelection campaign. Democratic strategist most recently serving as campaign manager for Sen. Raphael Warnock’s 2022 successful reelection campaign in Georgia.

https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/quentin-fulks

Also “in the room”:

Leroy Chapman, editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Jessica Fulton, interim president, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Judy Kang, program manager, USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative

Nikole Killion, congressional correspondent for CBS News

Dominik Whitehead, vice president of campaigns, NAACP

and a toast to Alex Mena, newly named executive editor of the Miami Herald.

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNikKeYZH80

Column: https://tinyurl.com/567sm48m

July 31, 2023:

“Have the media improved their coverage of crime since the case of the Central Park Five, now the Exonerated Five?

David P. Kreizer, attorney for Korey Wise of the Exonerated Five, formerly the Central Park Five
https://kreizerlaw.com/david-p-kreizer-esq/

Carroll Bogert, president, The Marshall Project

Susan Chira, editor-in-chief, The Marshall Project

Letrell Crittenden, Ph.D, director of inclusion and audience growth, American Press Institute
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/author/lcrittenden/

Diamond Hardiman, reparative journalism program manager, Media 270, Free Press
https://www.freepress.net/about/staff/diamond-hardiman

Dan Shelley, president and CEO, Radio Television Digital News Association | RTDNA Foundation

Elinor Tatum, publisher & editor in chief, New York Amsterdam News

Collette Watson, director, Media 270 project, Free Press; vice president of cultural strategy, Free Press

www.mediareparations.org
www.freepress.net

We toasted Andale Gross, race and ethnicity editor at the Associated Press, who has been named managing editor of the Kansas City Star. < https://tinyurl.com/4t9b6s6t >

Video:  < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72PB4dRrsKs >  Column: < http://tinyurl.com/2p8bw663 >

June 25, 2023, simulcast on Facebook at < https://www.facebook.com/RPjournalisms/ >

“How U.S. Ambassadors of Color See the World.”

A PBS documentary was titled ““The American Diplomat: FIRST-CLASS PATRIOTS ABROAD. SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS AT HOME.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says, “During my confirmation hearing, I said that I would judge the success of my tenure, in part, by how well I lead the Department to be more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible. Together, we will make the Department a more effective organization, better equipped to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.”

Panelists:

— Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, who is leaving her position as the State Department’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer.

— Ambassador (ret.) Charles A. Ray, chair, Africa Program and trustee, Foreign Policy Research Institute; former board member, Association of Black American Ambassadors; has been posted to Cambodia and Zimbabwe.

— Prof. Michael L. Krenn, history professor, Appalachian State University. His 1999 book, “Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969,” was the inspiration for “The American Diplomat.” and he appears in the film.  < https://tinyurl.com/muxncxj >

— Ambassador (ret.) Aurelia Brazeal. “Serving 41 years in the United States Foreign Service, Ambassador Aurelia Erskine Brazeal was the first African American woman to be appointed ambassador by three presidential administrations.” < https://tinyurl.com/2p87d88n >

We also toasted:

Claire Smith, winner of the 2023 Red Smith Award. “She is the first African American woman to win the award, given annually by the Associated Press Sports Editors to a writer or editor who has made major contributions to sports journalism. Smith is the sixth woman and fourth Black journalist to win the award,” which is “regarded as the highest sports journalism honor in the United States.”

Nicole Avery Nichols, new editor of the Detroit Free Press.

Yvette Walker, new vice president and editorial page editor at the Kansas City Star.

Column:  < https://tinyurl.com/bddwvsfx > Video < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnk47MHRACo >

May 21, 2023 

 

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners. Pulitzer column here: < https://tinyurl.com/rue53x9d >

Among those in the discussion:

James V. Grimaldi, Wall Street Journal, part of the team that won in investigative reporting for “sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies, revealing those who bought and sold stocks they regulated and other ethical violations by individuals charged with safeguarding the public’s interest.”

Marjorie Miller, Pulitzer Prize administrator.

Ron Nixon, the Associated Press’ vice president, news and head of investigations, enterprise, partnerships and grants and a Black journalist. The AP won the award for public service for “courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Toluse Olorunnipa, co-winner with Robert Samuels for their book, “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, “An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown.”

Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham, who won “for measured and persuasive columns that document how Alabama’s Confederate heritage still colors the present with racism and exclusion, told through tours of its first capital, its mansions and monuments–and through the history that has been omitted.”

We also heard from Merrill Brown, editorial director at G/O Media, who will be hiring the next editor of The Root. See: < https://tinyurl.com/424asn6a > (second item), and Hank Klibanoff’s update on his Cold Case project.  < https://www.wabe.org/shows/buried-truths/ >

Video: < https://youtu.be/pOvUtBtaR44 > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/xawepja3 >

April 17, 2023

What we can learn from Randall Robinson

< https://tinyurl.com/3akfb7he >

Cecelie Counts, formerly TransAfrica’s chief organizer and strategist.

Gwen McKinney, communications strategist who represented TransAfrica; creator and campaign director of Unerased: Black Women Speak < https://unerasedbws.com/>

with journalists:

Allison Davis
Courtland Milloy Jr.
Randall Pinkston

Brenda Wilson

Joe Davidson’s interview with Randall in 1983 for the National Leader:
< https://blackagendareport.com/interview-randall-robinson-third-world-advocate-1983 >

and African American journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr, who has been with us before to discuss Ukraine, tweeted from Israel:

“You can’t comprehend what Palestinians are experiencing until you come here and see it for yourself.”

 More in Terrell’s Twitter feed: < https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr >

Background video: Marc Lamont Hill, “Why Black People Should Care About Palestinian Liberation” (The Root, 2020) < https://tinyurl.com/359xyuv5 >

We toasted Ju-Don Marshall, just named president and CEO of WFAE, the public radio station in Charlotte, N.C. < https://tinyurl.com/j4z63ran >.

 Narrative, part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/ykbns7vv > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/3y45ehxx > Video:  < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Jr-3ZOKws >

March 28, 2023

By now, most of us have heard about the concerns that artificial intelligence prompts both in journalism and for people of color, and we discussed them both at this Journal-isms Roundtable.

Renée Cummings of the University of Virginia, who joined the School of Data Science in 2020 as the School’s first Data Activist in Residence. “She is a Criminologist, Criminal Psychologist, Artificial Intelligence Ethicist, Therapeutic Jurisprudence Specialist, and Urban Technologist. Her areas of research interests include artificial intelligence, political science, and criminology. She studies the impact of artificial intelligence on criminal justice, specifically in communities of color and incarcerated populations,” according to her bio. https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/renee-cummings

Calvin D. Lawrence, a distinguished engineer at IBM and member of IBM’s Corporate AI Ethics board as well as its Academy of Technology. His forthcoming book is “Hidden in White Sight: How AI Empowers and Deepens Systemic Racism.” https://hiddeninwhitesight.com
In his book, “Lawrence reveals startling evidence of the technology used by policing and judicial systems that contain in-built biases stemming from human prejudices and systemic or institutional preferences. However, he attests, there are steps AI developers and technologists can do to redress the balance.”

Nicol Turner Lee of the Brookings Institution, where she is “a senior fellow in Governance Studies, the director of the Center for Technology Innovation, and serves as Co-Editor-In-Chief of TechTank. . . . She is an expert on the intersection of race, wealth, and technology within the context of civic engagement, criminal justice, and economic development.” (and she has a lot to say about the need for anti-racism within the artificial intelligence field.

— Angle Bush, founder, Black Women In Artificial Intelligence < www.blackwomeninai.com >

We also toasted Jim Trotter, the NFL reporter whose contract was not renewed after questioning NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about NFL diversity (see < https://tinyurl.com/8rw8x5k9 > and Leroy Chapman Jr., incoming editor-in-chief at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. See: < https://tinyurl.com/yc3zhzz3 >

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwpqaR0hiSA > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/bden7phb >

Narrative, part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/2s3wy8xs >; narrative, part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/3ah5ehdy >

Short clip of Jim Trotter appearance by Rebecca Aguilar: < https://twitter.com/RebeccaAguilar/status/1640875076781309952 >.

Feb. 19, 2023

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., assistant House Democratic leader, returns after joining us in January 2021. (Photo by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Also:  Dennis Brownlee, founder of the African American Irish Diaspora Network https://www.aaidnet.org/

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_fZdrw5NgI >

Column: “At Journal-isms Roundtable, Clyburn Lauds Carter on Judgeships, Showing ‘How to Lose’ ” < https://tinyurl.com/yckn2kxt > (2nd item) (Feb. 19)

Column: Don Lemon Remains Off Air: To Clyburn, Haley’s Age Isn’t the Problem (Feb. 20)

Column: Shamrocks to Sprout at Black Colleges: Irish, African Diaspora Have Complicated History (March 16) 

Column: Clyburn Renews Push to Honor ‘Lift Every Voice’ (March 29)

Narrative Part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/5xnjr3y8 > Part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/4kxtjykb >

Feb. 6, 2023

Our first hybrid in-person and Zoom Roundtable, hosted by American University. 

The guest was Dr. Julius Garvey, a surgeon and son of the legendary Black nationalist and Pan Africanist Marcus Garvey — who used journalism to communicate his message via his newspaper, The Negro World, from 1918 to 1933.

Senghor Baye, a longtime leader of the current iteration of Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, also spoke. “The journalism piece is critical,” he had said, speaking of Garvey’s movement.

Paula Laura Alberto, who edited the recent “Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960,” discussed the Black Press in Latin America and the influence of The Negro World among Afro-Latin American thinkers and journalists.

We toasted Joy Thomas Moore, mother of new Maryland Gov. Wes Moore — only the third elected Black governor in the nation’s history — and received an update from the principals behind the proposed Center for Black Excellence and Culture in Madison, Wis.

Video:< https://youtu.be/xegpENXEGbs >. Column: < https://tinyurl.com/59bsz9c8 >. Narrative (Facebook): <http://tinyurl.com/mzzhxu5f

Jan. 30, 2023

“Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?”

Ellis Cose, journalist and author of “Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today’s Disruptors.” 

Katie Galioto, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, who has been covering city hall in St. Paul for the past two years and is following this story she reported:
St. Paul forms permanent reparations commission in move toward ‘real racial justice’

Rachel Swarns, journalist, author and journalism professor at NYU. In 2016, Rachel broke the story about Georgetown University’s relationship to slavery. Her forthcoming book — The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church — will be published by Random House in June. 

Nkechi Taifa, lawyer and reparations advocate who has just published “Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America

Alvin B. Tillery Jr., Ph.D., professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy. He is leading a study of reparations developments in Evanston, Ill. “On March 22, 2021, the Evanston City Council passed an ordinance, introduced by Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, to earmark the first $10 million from a 3% tax on legalized cannabis sales to fund a reparations program for Black residents.”

Also in the “room”:

A member of the St. Paul city council’s reparations legislative advisory committee
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/st-paul-city-council-establishes-permanent-reparations-commission/

Trahern Crews, founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota,
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/derek-chauvin-trial-verdict/card/yGMknGmLLRXkfiPniDVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_ZnOuPZjg
https://www.gp.org/trahern_crews_2021_sc_candidate

and:

Ruben Navarrette Jr., syndicated columnist (“Mexican Americans are not seeking reparations“) 

YouTube video: <  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUV1rVGoKhY  > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/5ns2tr87 > Narrative part 1, < https://tinyurl.com/mw3jsyts >; part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/2p9ed9v2 >

 

 

 Dec. 18, 2022

What Journalists Need to Know About Africa

Melvin Foote, president and CEO of the Constituency for Africa, < https://dominiontv.net/an-interview-with-melvin-p-foote-president-and-chief-executive-officer-of-constituency-for-africa/>

Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, managing editor at Ghana Business News and executive director at NewsBridge Africa. He wrote “In Ghana, Only a Handful of Journalists Are Able To Do Critical Reporting” for Nieman Reports while at Columbia last summer on a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. < https://niemanreports.org/articles/ghana-democracy-pres-freedom/ >. Emmanuel is back in West Africa, and messaged, “Most journalists practicing in the West have no idea what it takes to practice journalism in Africa. I see that all the time when I am working on collaborative projects.”

Milton Allimadi, teaches African history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, publisher, the Black Star News, Ugandan-American.  Last year, Journal-isms ran “How the Western Media Demonized Africa,” an excerpt from his book.
https://www.journal-isms.com/2021/07/how-the-western-media-demonized-africa/

Karen Attiah, columnist and former global opinions editor, Washington Post; former Fulbright scholar to Ghana, has reported from Curacao, Nigeria, Ghana; author of “
It’s not just Trump: Western media has long treated black and brown countries like ‘shitholes’ (2018) < https://tinyurl.com/mssaf9ks >

Kiratiana Freelon, international correspondent in Rio de Janeiro; co-chair, NABJ Global Journalism Task Force.

Rodney Sieh, editor-in-chief and publisher, investigative publication FrontPageAfrica, Liberia,

J. Siguru Wahutu, PhD, NYU assistant professor, media, culture and communication; faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. (Research subjects: – Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Media; Data Privacy; Media Manipulation; Human Rights Violations; Genocide and Mass Atrocity; Sub-Sahara Africa)

Timed to follow the U.S-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Dec. 13-15 < https://www.state.gov/africasummit/

 Press Freedom to Be Topic at U.S.-African Summit < https://tinyurl.com/3y67cdfa > (scroll down)

Column: <  https://tinyurl.com/bdry2rz5  >. YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/xUc9TpkKlSA > Narrative: < https://tinyurl.com/sh55dv8s >

Nov. 20, 2022:

What about the Black and Asian asylum seekers? And other undercovered immigration stories.
Three items in the Nov. 6 “Journal-isms” column were our focus:
 
‘Racism and Abuse Toward Black Migrants’
Weak Immigration Coverage Has Consequences
BBC Details Beating Deaths of African Migrants
 
You can catch up here:
https://tinyurl.com/37h32rnp  

Panelists:

—  Zita Arocha, founder of Borderzine.com, Poynter Institute project consultant, professor emeritus of communication at University of Texas El Paso. Some may know Zita from her work with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Bio: https://borderzine.com/author/zarocha/

  Liz Robbins, director of journalism partnerships at Define American, the organization founded by former reporter Jose Antonio Vargas. Define American has just released a report on news coverage of the immigration issue and how it can do better. Liz was the lead author. In a previous life, Liz was a sportswriter at the New York Times and Washington Post. < https://defineamerican.com/team/ >

 
 Kham S. Moua, national deputy director, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
 
Jeff Mighliozzi, communications director, Freedom for Immigrants, one of the groups behind the recent report < https://tinyurl.com/2rnumn89 > indicating a pattern of racism and abuse toward Black migrants.
 

Spencer Woodman, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, author of “Solitary Voices” report
https://www.icij.org/investigations/solitary-voices/three-years-after-icijs-solitary-voices-isolation-still-commonplace-in-us-prisons-and-detention-centers/ that found, “Advocates have expressed particular shock at the use of solitary in ICE’s dozens of detention centers, as many ICE detainees have never been accused of a crime and are not being held as a form of punishment. .  . .”

In addition, a toast to Claire Regan, new president of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a presentation from Julieanna Richardson, founder of TheHistoryMakers https://www.thehistorymakers.org/

 

 

Oct. 16, 2022:

Dean Baquet (pictured) stepped down as the first African American to lead the New York Times newsroom, and it was widely viewed as a successful editorship. He joined us in his new role leading a local investigative Times fellowship. < https://tinyurl.com/4pzzhwpx >

With him were the new co-managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan.  We also toasted Don Hudson (pictured), named new editor of Newsday. < https://tinyurl.com/4s9pybrd > (scroll down), who joined the conversation. YouTube video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx-SVqBjcc  > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/5k89bkmr > Narrative, Part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/yckkmdhk >
Part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/u9tm5rv7 >

Sept. 26, 2022:

How do historians of color look at the state of U.S. democracy in 2022, and how should journalists frame their first rough drafts of history?

With, in alphabetical order:

Philip Deloria, first specialist in Native American studies on the Harvard faculty. https://bit.ly/3SZvUfT . Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History; Traditional Territory of the Massachusett People

Stewart Kwoh, a co-founder and co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project https://asianamericanedu.org/ and founder and president emeritus of Asian American Advancing Justice – LA

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and is former director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/k…

Aimee M. Villarreal, Ph.D, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas State University; focused on restorative justice and racial reconciliation processes related to public representations of history and identity in the U.S, Southwest. https://bit.ly/3xjjeas [PDF]

In addition, Ray Suarez, journalist and podcaster, formerly of the “PBS NewsHour” and author of “Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation,” returned to help moderate. He is now teaching at NYU Shanghai! https://bit.ly/3QTSVyF

We presented a brief remembrance of the late broadcast journalist Bernard Shaw, with a discussion among his journalist friends Kenneth Walker, Clarence Page, Lynne Adrine and Eugene Robinson.

And we toasted Ron Nixon on his promotion to VP for investigative, enterprise, grants and partnerships at the Associated Press.

Video:  < (103) Journal-isms Roundtable, September 26, 2022 – YouTube > Column:  Was U.S. Ever a Democracy for People of Color? – journal-isms.com

Aug. 28, 2022
 
Bruce Talamon went around the country photographing Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Bootsy CollinsEarth Wind and Fire and other R&B and soul music stars of the 1970s.

Now he has an exhibit, “Hotter Than July,” at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.  < https://www.rockhall.com/exhibitions/hotter-july >

Bruce discussed this work, as well as his coverage of the 1984 Jesse Jackson campaign and the other Black journalists on the trail. 

We toasted Yvette Cabrera, the new president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and Marquita Smith, Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship winner as the journalism educator who has done the most for diversity.

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July 19, 2022

“Is crushing student loan debt killing off our pipeline of journalists, especially those of color?”

Also, a remembrance of the esteemed lawyer and diversity advocate Clifford Alexander, and a brief update on post-mass shooting conditions in Buffalo, N.Y.
Cliff guided and represented the Washington Post Metro Seven in their 1972 EEOC complaint against the Washington Post < https://bit.ly/3hG6tgi >, and hosted “Cliff Alexander: Black on White” in 1973 and 1974. That show originated at WJLA-TV in Washington but aired in all of the top 10 markets.

Maureen Bunyan organized a brief segment about Cliff to open our Roundtable. All of the Washington Post Metro Seven, whom Cliff advised in their 1972 EEOC complaint, were represented.

Dawn Bracely, editorial writer at the Buffalo News, told us how the city was faring since the May 14 shooting in Buffalo’s Black community that left 10 people dead.

Discussing the student loan issue were:

— Carrington Tatum, who in June wrote “Loans got me into journalism. Student debt pushed me out.” < https://bit.ly/3RteaIV>

— Wendi C. Thomas, editor and publisher, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, who responded with, “When student loans and the housing crisis force journalists out of the business.” <https://bit.ly/3z3WgFi >

— Dan Shelley, president and CEO, Radio Television Digital News Association, who says, “Unfortunately, this is a problem that is much bigger than just student debt. . . .”

— Ashley Harrington, senior adviser to the chief operating officer at Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education.

— Mary E. Cavallaro, chief broadcast officer for the SAG-AFTRA News & Broadcast Department, and Bob Butler, former NABJ president and current broadcast vice president, SAG-AFTRA
https://www.sagaftra.org/about/executive-staff/mary-cavallaro

Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3C9qetA > and < https://bit.ly/3SPUcZr > Video: < https://youtu.be/qTuv0GrQPAo 

 
June 5, 2022
 

Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Touluse Olorunnipa discussed their new “His Name Is George Floyd,” < https://bit.ly/3xeR40A >, and were questioned by panelists Natalie Hopkinson, Ken Lemon and Caroline Brewer.
 
We toasted Terence Samuel, named vice president and executive editor at NPR, “leading NPR’s news gathering teams effective immediately”  https://n.pr/3wX3pGt >. and Jennifer Kho,new executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times < https://bit.ly/3MtATkB >
 
Narrative and photos, Part 1, on Facebook: < https://bit.ly/39HxlO1 >  Part 2: < https://bit.ly/39HxlO1 > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/37r9hypk >.
 

May 22, 2022

We celebrated the 2022 Pulitzer winners, a diverse group announced May 9.  < https://bit.ly/3vXvCwk>. We wanted to hear what other journalists can learn from their experience and how they accomplished what they did. 
 
Monica Richardson, Miami Herald — winner for breaking news
Melinda Henneberger, Sacramento Bee — winner for commentary
Corey Johnson, Tampa Bay Times — winner in investigative reporting
Cecilia Reyes, Chicago Tribune — winner for local reporting
Kim Barker and Michael Keller, New York Times — winners for national reporting
Luis Carrasco, Seattle Times — winner in editorial writing
Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times — winning in breaking news photography
 
 Kevin Merida, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times and a member of the Pulitzer Board. 
 
And finalists:
Darryl Fears, Washington Post, national reporting <https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-washington-post-0>-
Kimberly Johnson, Wall Street Journal, explanatory reporting  < https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-wall-street-journal-3 >
Column: < https://tinyurl.com/46jka8dz > , Narrative and photos – Part 1: <https://bit.ly/3LTMNns> Part 2: < https://bit.ly/3sWIelp >
 

April 24, 2022

With Ukraine the top news story of 2022, and critics asking whether the news media are giving other tragedies around the world their due, we discuss who gets to be a foreign correspondent, how much diversity there is among them, and what it’s like to be one. 

We are joined by Terrell Jermaine Starr (pictured), to our knowledge the only African American journalist reporting consistently from Ukraine, doing so since before the Russian invasion.

And panelists:

Michael Slackman, AME/international for the New York Times

– Eva Rodriguez, who has just left the Washington Post as deputy foreign editor. (She started April 11 as editor-in-chief of The Fuller Project, “a global non-profit newsroom that focuses on matters and issues that impact women/girls.”)

Dan Lothian, executive producer, “The World” on public radio.

Gary Lee, a former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post and Time, who later reported from more than 60 countries for the Washington Post travel section.

And journalists calling in from South Africa, China, England and Thailand

From South Africa: John Eligon of the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/by/john-eligon
From China: Dake Kang of the Associated Press.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakekang/
From England: Selam Gebrekidan, investigative reporter at the New York Times https://www.linkedin.com/in/selam-gebrekidan-1069b752/
From Thailand, Joe Ritchie, New York Times International Edition, Hong Kong

From Mexico, Morris Thompson, retired editor/foreign correspondent, Knight Ridder and Newsday.

Column: < https://bit.ly/3P12eNh >; Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0tVfCjyvog>; Narrative, part 1:  < https://bit.ly/3Ftmp23 >; Narrative, part 2:  < https://bit.ly/3KV84MN >

March 28, 2022

“Askia Muhammad and the Critical Role of the Black Columnist.”

Topic A was Will Smith’s slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards the night before. But we also had on the table such questions as:

Can columnists write whatever they want? Do Black columnists feel pressured not to write “so much” about race? Are there topics more columnists should address? Do Black columnists have a different mandate than others?

Black columnists discussed the environment in which their colleague, the late Askia Muhammad, https://bit.ly/3rYEnUU plied his craft.

Washington’s Pacifica station WPFW-FM, streamed at wpfwfm.org, broadcast a 24-hour tribute to Askia on Monday, March 28, 2022, his birthday.

This radio version of the Journal-isms Roundtable aired from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time.

Participating in the discussion were:

Todd Steven Burroughs, public historian, media consultant and contractor, Black press historian
Monroe Anderson, “cyber columnist,” Chicago
Kevin B. Blackistone, Washington Post sports columnist, professor at the University of Maryland, ESPN panelist
Mary C. Curtis, columnist, Roll Call; contributor, NPR/WFAE Charlotte; senior facilitator/Public Voices Fellowship Program | The OpEd Project 

Courtland Milloy, Metro columnist, Washington Post
Barbara Reynolds, former columnist, USA Today and Chicago Tribune.

Michael Paul Williams, columnist, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary

. . . and listener call-ins.

(Column: https://bit.ly/3JgwBLN) (Video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JCZ5-C698> )

Photo: A meeting of the Trotter Group of African American columnists in Jackson, Miss., in 2014, where the group visited civil rights landmarks.  Askia is second from left. (Credit: Keith McMillan)

March 20, 2022

Hank Klibanoff, director of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University (coldcases.emory.edu), a former managing editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and co-author of “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation,” among other experiences, on the cold cases project. The resemblance of the Ahmaud Arbery story (pictured) to much older murders from the Jim Crow South is impossible to resist, he says. Column: < https://bit.ly/3qFlHsl > Narrative and photos : Part 1: < https://bit.ly/3JKhqvg >. Part 2: <  https://bit.ly/3LgYS6a >  Video: < https://bit.ly/3iE6Qdk >

March 1, 2022

Malcolm Nance, MSNBC analyst and former counterintelligence agent, just back from a month in Ukraine; 

Remi Adekoya, Nigerian-Polish journalist who spent 19 years in Poland and teaches politics at the University of York in Britain <https://bit.ly/3M4R9cz >; author of “Biracial Britain” < https://bit.ly/36D3xAd >

Video: < https://youtu.be/1OxThjPmKcc > Column: < https://bit.ly/3MypXTY > Narrative, Part 1, is at: < https://bit.ly/35sr7zI > Part 2 is at < https://bit.ly/35xVZ1B >

Feb. 27, 2022

WATERSIDE

Photojournalists of color

 Chester Higgins, former staff photographer for The New York Times, will discuss his latest book, “Sacred Nile,” followed by a panel of photojournalists of color: 

Marie D. DeJesus, staff photojournalist at the Houston Chronicle and president of the National Press Photographers Association <  http://www.mariedejesus.com/about-me >;

Monica Herndon, staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer who is part of its “Wildest Dreams” project < https://bit.ly/3L5XRyw > featuring Black photojournalists;

Carl Juste; longtime photographer for the Miami Herald and founder of the Iris PhotoCollective < https://irisphotocollective.com/ >;

—  Hyungwon Kang, former photographer or photo editor for the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and Reuters, preparing his second coffee table book on the history of Korea. < https://www.kang.org/korea >

Eugene Tapahe, Navajo, designer, artist and photographer who specializes in the landscape and people of the Southwest. < https://tapahe.com/ >.

Chester Higgins said, ” ‘Sacred Nile’ will change the way you think about our history and the central role of Africans in faith making.” He called it “a photographic work 50 years in the making about our ancient work with the spirit.” We discussed why so few photographers of color are working as photographers in major news media outlets, and the need to increase diversity in visuals staffs and in newsroom leadership.

Co-sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zF_t8qaq4 >  Column: <  https://tinyurl.com/yp8w9j6n > (second item) Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3B7JhlV > Column: < https://bit.ly/3xf5hdy > (second item) Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zF_t8qaq4 > 

Journal-isms is a partner of the American University School of Communication

January 2022

On Jan. 23, we heard from cartoonists of color:

Lalo Alcaraz < https://laloalcaraz.com/ >
Ray Billingsley < http://www.billingsleyart.com/Main-Page.html > (pictured)
Barbara Brandon-Croft < https://inthetrove.com/barbara-brandoncroft >

Hector Cantú < https://to.pbs.org/3f0SNfS >
Walt Carr < http://carrtoonsplus.com/ >
Rob King, former cartoonist, now ESPN exec < https://espnpressroom.com/us/bios/king_rob/ >
Angelo Lopez < https://angelolopez.wordpress.com/>, <https://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoonists/lopeza/ >
Marty Two Bulls < http://m2bulls.com/ >

and on “comics journalism,” Josh Neufeld < https://bit.ly/3F6Ry9W >

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9JqCHRV8w >; column < https://bit.ly/3KZlHMu >. Narrative, Part 1 < https://bit.ly/3se91Zk > Narrative, Part 2 < https://bit.ly/349OSM0 > Part 3 at < https://bit.ly/3IXDIbZ >

December 2021

Four writers from the forthcoming “Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America,” < https://bit.ly/3q4HRoq >, edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield. The book also covers efforts by the Black press to counter that Jim Crow narrative.

The Roundtable was co-sponsored by the Minorities and Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), journalism professors whose leaders were present. In attendance were industry figures, journalists and activists knowledgeable about the history of racism in American newspapers. Column: < https://bit.ly/3q1rp6C > Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX5VzlTekZM  > Narrative and photos: <   >, part 1;  < https://bit.ly/3J6rz5I >, part 2.

November 2021

How Black women’s issues play out in the media. With: Nichelle Smith, enterprise editor for racism and history, USA Today;  Errin Haines, editor-at-large at The 19th; dream hampton, creator of the 2019 “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary series; Yanick Rice Lamb, publisher of fierceforblackwomen.com  and journalism professor at Howard University; and Sonya Ross, former AP journalist and founder of the website blackwomenunmuted.com. (Photo credit: Lifetime/MSN) Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU67ME2zNVE

Narrative and photos on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3cbNYyX (Part 1) and https://bit.ly/3cgC07g (Part 2); Column: < https://bit.ly/3qGCUST >.  

October 2021

Journal-isms Roundtable hears from Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles and Keith Harriston, authors of “Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America,” and congratulates Jackie Jones, Amanda Barrett, Nick Charles and Norman Parish

Column: < https://bit.ly/3ArKhyQ > Video: < https://bit.ly/3mH5xMn > Photos by Don Baker/Don Baker Photography Group. Narrative: Part 1 is at: < https://bit.ly/3iNO57B > Part 2 is at: < https://bit.ly/3aq7zLc >

September 2021

Justice!

— Vanita Gupta, associate attorney general
https://bit.ly/3m6AnO1

Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights
https://bit.ly/3kQBh1E

Amy L. Solomon, acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs (oversees the Bureau of Justice Statistics, source of a wealth of information for journalists.)
https://bit.ly/2YdqwxX

Anthony D. Coley, director, Office of Public Affairs, and senior adviser to the attorney general
https://bit.ly/3maLiXa

Kenneth A. Polite Jr., assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division
https://bit.ly/2Y113HP

Ronald Davis, director, U.S. Marshals Service
https://bit.ly/3offHWL

Column: <https://bit.ly/3llaHhr> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REUpTTWkhs

August 2021

The United States pullout from Afghanistan, with Malcolm Nance, MSNBC chief terrorism expert, Ozier Muhammad, Ron Claiborne and Randall Pinkston, who covered Afghanistan while they worked for The New York Times, ABC News and CBS News, respectively. Maria Reeve and Katrice Hardy, the new top editors of the Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News; and Trey Baker,  White House senior adviser for African American outreach/public engagement, and Erica Loewe, White House director of African American media. Column < https://bit.ly/3koc11o > Narrative and photos < https://bit.ly/2WWEjs5 > (Part 1) and < https://bit.ly/3n5bEvF > (Part 2). Video < https://bit.ly/3jKoVI5 >

July 2021

 

“Straight Talk on TV Hair,” with Rashida Jones, recently named named president of MSNBC, Anzio Williams, senior vice president, diversity, equity and inclusion for NBC Owned Stations; Ava Thompson Greenwell, professor at the Medill School and author of the new “Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News”;

Ramon Escobar, senior vice president, talent recruitment & development, CNN Worldwide; Josh Eure, vp/live programming at Black News Channel; and Pulitzer Prize winner Tamara Payne and her brother Jamal Payne, celebrating the honor accorded the book written by their late dad, Les Payne, with Tamara, “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.”

They were joined by members of Investigative Reporters & Editors and David Boardman, dean of the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, who has just announced creation of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting. Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3Aq3qSa >; column < https://bit.ly/3CuZUb2 > video  https://bit.ly/3iyyitC >. Photos by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks

June 2021

New L.A. Times executive editor Kevin Merida and his wife, writer Donna Britt; DeNeen Brown (pictured) and Gary Lee, who have been on the ground in Tulsa, Okla., site of the 1921 massacre, as well as Tulsa native Roy S. Johnson; new Pulitzer Prize winners Frank Franklin and Michael Paul Williams; and Amber Payne and Bina Venkataraman, representatives of The Emancipator, the new collaboration between antiracism leader Ibram Kendi and the Boston Globe.< https://bit.ly/3itmMjC >. Narrative, part 1: <https://bit.ly/3xK928J>;  Narrative, part 2: < https://bit.ly/3gSbuTJ >; Column: < https://bit.ly/35Mw1DS >; Video: < https://youtu.be/g1b76WQ6_nQ >. (Photo credit: Courtesy Jonathan Silvers/Saybrook Productions Ltd.)

May 2021

 

“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology): How journalists can better cover environmental justice/environmental racism.”

Charles Lee, senior policy adviser for environmental justice at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency < https://bit.ly/3bWU46X > — Mustafa Santiago Ali, formerly of the Hip-Hop Caucus and EPA, now vice president of environmental justice, climate, and community revitalization, National Wildlife Federation < https://bit.ly/3u9CZfX > and < https://bit.ly/3oBi8RW >, — Dina Gilio-Whitaker, educator and writer on indigenous environmental justice and other indigenous policy-related issues < https://dinagwhitaker.wordpress.com/ > — Evlondo Cooper, writer with the climate and energy program of Media Matters for America < https://bit.ly/3bGAVFZ >, and — Heather McTeer Toney, climate justice liaison, Environmental Defense Fund < https://bit.ly/33VzwHd > We congratulated Dr. Battinto Batts Jr., named new dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. < https://bit.ly/3v4vhVZ > . Narrative, part 1: < https://bit.ly/3fKgNoY > Narrative, part 2 < https://bit.ly/3wT3S9R > Column <https://bit.ly/3g49B62> YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/25hlV3xXBo0 >

April 2021

Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, creators of “the Philly Sound” and Philadelphia International Records, along with Robin R. Terry, chair and CEO of the Motown Museum, and with Iris Gordy, a board member of the museum and former Motown executive.

Gamble and Huff are commemorating the 50th anniversary of the label, and the Motown Museum is planning an expansion of its Detroit landmark. Narrative Part 1: < https://bit.ly/3xOmPMf > Part 2: < https://bit.ly/3up8S58 > Column: < https://bit.ly/2SpC9ib >. YouTube video: < https://bit.ly/33dRxQT >
Previews:  Philadelphia International https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLLqp0YHHk

Motown Museum  https://www.motownmuseum.org/about/expansion/

March 2021

Del. Stacey Plaskett (Credit: Washington Post)

Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, who drew kudos as House impeachment manager, Monica R. Richardson, new editor of the Miami Herald, Mike Webb, senior vice president of communications of the News Literacy Project, and Al Tompkins, senior faculty at the Poynter Institute, on what journalists can do to counter disinformation. Narrative, part 1: < https://bit.ly/3x3rLfP >; Column: < https://bit.ly/3tu4GRr>; YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/A4reOoouSAg >

February 2021

Flag burning at Asbury United Methodist Church on Dec. 12, 2020. (Credit: Victor J. Blue/New York Times)

The pastors of the two historic Black D.C. churches whose Black Lives Matter banners were burned, the Revs. William Lamar IV of Metropolitan AME and Ianther Mills of Asbury United Methodist Church, joined by Susan Corke of the Southern Poverty Law Center. George Derek Musgrove’s new website plotting all of the major Black Power events and organizations in Washington D.C. Jon Funabiki and Valerie Bush on their Renaissance Journalism Project in the Bay Area. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/37pcjPV> (Part 1) < http://bit.ly/3sdnmnx  > (Part 2) <  Column: <http://bit.ly/3qv7gF9 >. YouTube video:<https://youtu.be/QmwLtxomcmo >

January 2021
The Roundtable heard from House Majority Whip James Clyburn. Mignon Clyburn, a daughter of the congressman, former member and acting chair of the FCC, introduced her dad. We also toasted James Blue, senior producer of “PBS NewsHour,” who has been named senior vp and head of the Smithsonian cable channel. He was introduced by Charlayne Hunter-Gault. And Khorri Atkinson, newly elected president of the Washington Association of Black Journalists, introduced himself. Narrative Part 1: < http://bit.ly/3rZ46ea >  Column: Clyburn Wants to Amplify ‘Lift Every Voice’ – journal-isms.com (journal-isms.com) > Video:: <https://youtu.be/NPLVJ5_x7L0 > Added to Sharon Farmer’s photos are those from Maurita Coley (Part 2, < http://bit.ly/3bhOTyG >)

December 2020

 

“How Journalists Can Become Successful Authors ” with Dana Canedy, executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster (pictured) ; Wanda Lloyd, author of “Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism” and co-editor with Tina McElroy Ansa, “Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community;” Karen Grey Houston, broadcast journalist and author of “Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy”;  Matt Pearce of the NewsGuild via the L.A. Times; Calvin Reid, senior news editor, Publishers Weekly ; Faith Childs, literary agent; Aminda MarquŽs Gonz‡lez, formerly executive editor of the Miami Herald, now vice president and executive editor at Simon & Schuster,  We toasted Shirley Carswell, incoming executive director of Dow Jones News Fund. Via Zoom Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Washington. Photos by  Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks.  Narrative: < http://bit.ly/3bp0lsf > Column:  <http://bit.ly/34NqLQw>; Video; <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZSJkYu_-QE&feature=youtu.be>

November 2020 

In Nov. 5 cartoon by the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste, President Jovenel Moïse remarks in Creole, “Darling, come get the champagne and put it back in the refrigerator. We will open it when the referendum is done.” Moïse enjoyed the support of the Trump administration during his own embattled presidency.

Nov. 15, 2020, Journal-isms Roundtable, by Rebecca Aguilar.

“How Others See Our U.S. Election,” with: Luis Alonso Lugo, who covers Washington for univision.com; Jacqueline Charles, Caribbean correspondent for the Miami Herald;  Anita Li of Toronto, co-founder, Canadian Journalists of Colour; Macollvie J. Neel, managing editor, Haitian Times (New York); Joseph Torres, Alicia Bell and Collette Watson of Free Press, who have released a 100-page essay, “Media 2070: An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations”; Congratulations and toasts to: Arthur Cribbs of Howard University, NABJ’s 2020 Student Journalist of the Year; Pam McAllister-Johnson, first Black female publisher of a mainstream paper, the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal (1982); to be inducted into NABJ Hall of Fame; Fred Sweets, contributing editor, St. Louis American; former photographer and editor at Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. To be inducted into NABJ Hall of Fame. Video< : https://fb.watch/1VfPJvoP8C/ >  or < https://bit.ly/3o38XrK > Column: < https://bit.ly/3ldH0vt >

October 2020

Voter suppression and the election, with:
Julián Castro, former HUD secretary and Democratic presidential candidate (pictured); Courtland Cox, chairman of the SNCC Legacy Project; Christine Chen, executive director, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote); Dan Lewerenz, staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and former president of Native American Journalists Association.
We congratulated Rebecca Aguilar on becoming president-elect of the Society of Professional Journalists, and Ivette Davila-Richards on becoming secretary-treasurer; Mei-Ling Hopgood of the Medill School, winner of the Barry Bingham fellowship for educators doing the most for diversity; and Calvin Sims, CNN’s new executive vice president of standards and practices. Via Zoom. (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Video: < https://bit.ly/2HfYhG9> Narrative < https://bit.ly/3mu7r1g > Column: < https://bit.ly/2G2HndP > September 2020

Maximizing diversity in the news media during our racial reckoning.
— Wesley Lowery,  now of “60 Minutes’” “60 in 6”  on the mobile app Quibi; former Washington Post reporter best known for reporting on police use of force against citizens,
— David Chavern, president and CEO of the News Media Alliance, the major association of newspaper publishers. 
— Maribel Perez Wadsworth, publisher of USA Today and president of news for Gannett Co.
Celebrating promotions of Angel Jennings and Kimbriell Kelly at the L.A. Times and retirement of Linda Shockley at the Dow Jones News Fund. Narrative : < https://bit.ly/3iRAIRZ > Column: < https://bit.ly/3iMiBNf >
Facebook Live video: < https://bit.ly/2RDsFfL > (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

August 2020

Tiffany Gill of the University of Delaware, who in 2010 wrote “Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry,” and Quincy T. Mills of Vassar College, on leave at the University of Maryland, author in 2014 of “Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America.”
Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3jmXReW >. Video: < https://youtu.be/eSh4yxo_u5E >. Journal-isms column < https://bit.ly/32IaF8Q > (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks))

July 2020

By Zoom, the Journal-isms Roundtable hears from Eric Deggans, television critic at NPR (pictured), and witnesses the unveiling of Lola Poisson’s painting of a Roundtable group portrait from April 2017. Video: < https://bit.ly/337X63z> Narrative: < https://bit.ly/396RwQP >, Photos by Sharon Farmer (c) sfphotoworks.

June 2020

Prison journalism and the reasons journalists should care about prisons. Speakers were William Drummond of UC Berkeley, investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell and Lawrence Brantley and Keri Blakinger of the Marshall Project. Narratives are on Facebook: < https://bit.ly/3yJkzpb > for Part 1. < https://bit.ly/3f7iHN1 > for Part 2. Video:< https://bit.ly/2zdCOde > Column: < https://bit.ly/3f0whlr >

 

 

May 2020 Homelessness

Speakers included: Chris Arnade, author of “Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America,” Eric Falquero, editorial director, Street Sense, Washington, D.C., Sylvie Sturm, journalist and a recent graduate of San Francisco State University, who compiled and analyzed hundreds of articles and columns published in the Bay Area about homelessness, Joanne Zuhl, executive editor, Street Roots, Portland, Ore., which covers poverty and homelessness, as well as Native American issues, Sheila White, a writer, photographer, filmmaker and advocate in her capacity at Street Sense Media, who just moved into her own place after seven years of homelessness; and Eric Ferrero, new executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Narrative — Part 1: < https://bit.ly/2TrvuSi > Part 2: <https://bit.ly/3g9GRrS>. Column: < https://bit.ly/3iXMagV >

April 2020

The Journal-isms Roundtable meets April 26, 2020, for the first time by Zoom. The topic was who wins, who loses in the sports world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 32 participants were led by Howard Bryant, author and writer for espn.com, and included leading sports journalists.
Narrative < https://bit.ly/3bYGFsE >; video < https://bit.ly/35dzKcN > Column < https://bit.ly/35s5Gu8 >(Photos by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks.)

February 2020

SNCC veterans Courtland Cox, left, and Judy Richardson who will commemorate the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s 60th anniversary  with a conference in Washington in April < https://www.sncclegacyproject.org/sncc60 >; and Jerry Mitchell, whose new book, “Race Against Time,” is about his pursuit of civil rights, Klan-related cold cases in Mississippi. (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks) Video by Janice Temple is at < http://bit.ly/2u60Rbw > The narrative and photos are at < http://bit.ly/2v6iAzZ > for part 1 and < http://bit.ly/3cjkY7w > for part 2.

January 2020 Malcolm Nance, former counterintelligence agent and current MSNBC analyst, author of “The Plot to Betray America.” at Jan. 7, 2020, roundtable (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks) Narrative: <http://bit.ly/37PMWV8>. Videos by Janice Temple < https://www.periscope.tv/w/1YqGodAaBEjJv > and Don Baker < https://vimeo.com/38355537 >  

December 2019

10th Annual Journal-isms Roundtable Holiday Party at the Newseum Saturday, Dec. 7, as Valerie Jarrett , right, is interviewed by April Ryan,  left. (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

10th annual Journal-isms Roundtable Holiday Party. Valerie Jarrett was interviewed by April Ryan, and Lawrence Jackson, the only African American photographer in the Obama White House, shared some of his photos from that time, collected in his new book, “Yes, We Did.” The party took place in the Newseum, with its stunning view of the U.S. Capitol, for the last time. The Newseum is moving to points unknown. Narrative: <  http://bit.ly/3cMAmKy > (part  1)  and < http://bit.ly/3cMAmKy >  (part 2). Janice Temple’s videos:
https://www.periscope.tv/JaniceTemple/1RDxlNqzwODGL >, with breakouts of April Ryan’s interview of Valerie Jarrett at
https://youtu.be/7ydacenAhjg >,<https://youtu.be/mrA_L0GnbrA> (part 2) and < https://youtu.be/ZMiFwgdPoW4 > (Part 3).  

November 2019

Four people from savejournalism.org discussed how Facebook, Google and other Big Tech companies are taking away journalism jobs. From left: Nick Charles, Laura Bassett and John Stanton, and Politico reporter Cristiano Lima. (Credit: Bonita Bing/ Tolbert & Bing Studios)

Four people from savejournalism.org discussed how Facebook, Google and other Big Tech companies are taking away journalism jobs. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/33fQsFz > Video: https://www.periscope.tv/JaniceTemple/1BdxYeWLeLBxX and https://www.periscope.tv/JaniceTemple/1vOxwaOQLQEGB .

October 2019

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, took questions on a wide variety of topics, and Sarah J. Glover, immediate past president of the National Association of Black Journalists, made a surprise presentation to Richard Prince. Narrative and photos: < http://bit.ly/2B8Uoww >Video at < https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrGmrlAqdqJy >, the Our Voices Periscope Channel, and https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-political-power-naccp-president-derrick-johnson-temple on LinkedIn.

August 2019

Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden, author of “African Americas & Africa,” second from left, and our own journalists Maureen Bunyan and Kenneth Walker. (Credit: Bonita Bing/ Tolbert & Bing Studios)

Relations between Africans and the African diaspora in the United States and Caribbean amid commemorations of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in the British Virginia colony. Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden, author of “African Americans & Africa,”  and our own journalists Maureen Bunyan and Kenneth Walker were our panelists. Film maker Zadi Zokou took questions from us via Skype. Narrative and photos: < http://bit.ly/2koeq19 > (part 1)  and < http://bit.ly/2lvPZz0 > (part 2). Video by Shevry Lassiter on Facebook Live:  < http://bit.ly/2lyyNZC >  .

  June 2019

From right: Robert A. “Tony” Dixon, president, Washington Metropolitan Chapter, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives; Ron Harris, journalist and co-author with Matthew Horace of “The Black and the Blue.”; Michael Perloff of the ACLU-D.C., co-author of the report “Racial Disparities in D.C. Policing: Descriptive Evidence from 2013–2017”;  and Howard Ross, partner, Udarta Consulting, expert on unconscious bias. (Credit: Bonita Bing/ Tolbert & Bing Studios)

“Why are African Americans disproportionately arrested in D.C. and elsewhere, and does unconscious bias have anything to do with it?” Photos and narrative < http://bit.ly/2x9LEnB > with Robert A. “Tony” Dixon, president, Washington Metropolitan Chapter, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives; Michael Perloff of the ACLU-D.C., co-author of the report “Racial Disparities in D.C. Policing: Descriptive Evidence from 2013–2017”; Howard Ross, partner, Udarta Consulting, expert on unconscious bias; Ron Harris, journalist and co-author with Matthew Horace of “The Black and the Blue.”  

April 2019

Panelists include Laura Barron-Lopez and Nolan Mc Caskill, Politico reporters; Karen Finney, CNN commentator and former Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams campaign aide; Albert Morales, senior political director at Latino Decisions and Sudeep Reddy, Politico managing editor. (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Though the 2020 presidential election is 18 months away, we discussed racism, sexism and the proper use of such terms as “voter suppression” and “chain migration” in the coverage. Panelists were Laura Barron-Lopez and Nolan Mc Caskill, Politico reporters; Karen Finney, CNN commentator and former Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams campaign aide; Albert Morales, senior political director at Latino Decisions and Sudeep Reddy, Politico managing editor. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2JzXgro > Video: < http://bit.ly/2DWXTYI >  

March 2019

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chair, Congressional Black Caucus, said the Caucus wants to do an end run around the media and is planning group trips around the country to meet with its publics, and wants closer ties with black journalists.  (Credit: Don Baker Photography)

Brunch with Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Narrative, Part One: < http://bit.ly/2T7iD4w > Part Two: < http://bit.ly/2TK76N7> Video: < https://bit.ly/2VZpvTl >. Column: < https://tinyurl.com/3pnh2rh5 >

February 2019

Simba Sana says, “”That’s the thing about the media, is that you don’t really get a feel for — you don’t get the stories that let you meet people as they really, really are. You hear these caricatures and you judge them just on that.” ( (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Simba Sana, the guest at our February roundtable, grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., and is familiar with others like that. He’s written a memoir, “Never Stop.” He also founded Karibu Books, which became the largest black bookstore in the country. Simba was asked to compare those parts of town with the images of them presented in the news media. Narrative: <http://bit.ly/2Pvcb8Q > Video: < http://bit.ly/2GqGpa5 >  

January 2019

As we discussed immigration and border issues, a common theme was that the topic is wider and more nuanced than the coverage we consume. The speakers suggested potential stories. At microphone is Kimberly Atkins, senior Washington correspondent at WBUR-FM in Boston.(Credit:  Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

 

 
 

More: 2019: https://www.journal-isms.com/2019/12/journal-isms-roundtable-2019

2018: https://www.journal-isms.com/2018/05/journal-isms-roundtable-2018/
2017: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15468&preview=true
2016: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15471&preview=true
2015: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15492&preview=true
2014: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15478&preview=true
2010-2013: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15499&preview=true

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How to counter the increasing moves against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

Our lead speaker will be Marc Morial (pictured)president of the National Urban League. He is expected to bring with him a multicultural group of business people who are fighting anti DEI efforts in the business world. 

They include:

Alphonso David President & CEO Global Black Economic Forum 
Ying McGuire CEO & President National Minority Supplier Development Council 
Eboni Wimbush President & CEO Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC)
 
Here’s a news story: 

Black civil rights organizations are rallying to counter anti-DEI rhetoric (Curtis Bunn, NBC News) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/anti-dei-rhetoric-black-organizations-counter-billionaires-rcna136815

This is specifically from the National Minority Development Council to Fortune 500 CEOs:
https://nmsdc.org/news/business-leaders-urge-fortune-500-ceos-to-maintain-and-expand-business-diversity-initiatives/

A journalism connection:
Gannett is in court over what the white plaintiff considers “reverse discrimination” https://www.journal-isms.com/2023/11/who-will-step-up-for-diversity/

We also will have journalism educators, as schools are being hit as well. Two other confirmed panelists:

Dr. Eddith Dashiel of Ohio U., mentioned in this column:

Ohio U. Pauses Scholarships That Mention Race (scroll down)
J-Group Says Hedge-Fund Papers Unwelcome – journal-isms.com

Kathleen McElroy, University of Texas prof who was in the news over the summer. Texas A&M President Quits in McElroy Fallout – journal-isms.com

and is also co-chair of the commission on minorities of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)

Also “in the room”:

Christina Silva, co-chair, Diversity Committee, News Leaders Association; managing editor for local news, Boston Globe; former president and co-founder, Los Angeles chapter, National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Will be simulcast on Facebook and recorded for posting on YouTube. 

Please check back on this Journal-isms Roundtable page for updates: https://www.journal-isms.com/journal-isms-roundtable/

 

Feb. 27, 2024

Who will be next, and what are you going to do about it?

We’re discussing the state of the news industry, particularly newspapers, and what journalists can do to survive the collapse of the traditional business models. Find the successful operations? Go to the nonprofits?  Start one?
 
Panelists:
 
 Danielle Coffey, president and CEO, News/Media Alliance, representing 2,000 news and magazine media outlets worldwide
 
Kim Kleman, executive director, Report for America
 
— Hermione Malone, head of emerging markets, American Journalism Project. “Hermione oversees the implementation of our Local Philanthropy Partnerships and the establishment and incubation of startup organizations alongside a coalition of community stakeholders, local philanthropies, and management talent.” 
 
— Eric Ortiz, transformational leader, community builder, and executive director of the Strong Mind Strong Body Foundation; author of “5 Ways Newspapers Can Make Money” < http://tinyurl.com/uwtkyarm >
 
Elodie Mailliet-Storm, CEO, CatchLight
 
— Tracie Powell, CEO, The Pivot Fund < https://thepivotfund.org/>, “a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to investing $500 million into independent BIPOC-led community news.” 
 

Also “in the room”:

Kevin Merida, former executive editor, Los Angeles Times (tentative)

 
Simulcast on Facebook at <://www.facebook.com/RPjournalisms/ >

YouTube video:  https://youtu.be/ejCksrsrVMQ

 

Jan. 22, 2024

Dictator on ‘Day One’:  “How Journalists Can Counter the Growing Threat of Authoritarianism”

Barbara Arnwine, president and founder, Transformative Justice Coalition, most recently working on restoring the gutted parts of the Voting Rights Act

< https://www.aclu.org/cases/naacp-v-arkansas-board-of-apportionment​ >

Gilbert Bailon, veteran journalist now executive editor of WBEZ in Chicago. The station, the Chicago Sun-Times and the University of Chicago are part of the Democracy Solutions Project. <https://www.wbez.org/collections/the-democracy-solutions-project/256 >

Jennifer Dresden, policy advocate, Project Democracy; primary author, “The Authoritarian Playbook: How reporters can contextualize and cover authoritarian threats as distinct from politics-as-usual

Louise Dubé, CEO, iCivics. iCivics was founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2009. “We champion equitable, non-partisan civic education so that the practice of democracy is learned by each new generation.” https://www.icivics.org/our-team

Gary Fields, Associated Press reporter, member of AP’s Democracy Team. < https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-sweeping-democracy-journalism-initiative >

Julie Millican, vice president of Media Matters for America. < Julie Millican | Media Matters for America >

Charles Whitaker, dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.< https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/directory/faculty/charles-whitaker.html >

Griff Witte, who heads the Democracy team in the Washington Post newsroom.< Griff Witte named editor of The Post’s Democracy Team – The Washington Post >  

YouTube video < https://youtu.be/GrpB06VoJq0 >

Column: < https://tinyurl.com/3vn5byv7 >

 

Dec. 3, 2023

Serafín Morán Santiago

 

“Cuba: Victim, Villain or Both?”

Cuba has consistently been denounced by press-freedom and human rights groups as a repressive country that persecutes independent journalists, Black and white alike. Yet it holds a fascination for some journalists who visit, find community in the rich culture, especially of Afro-Cubans on the island, and come back to the United States to denounce the U.S. embargo with public thanks from Cuba’s rulers.

How do we reconcile these two views of Cuba?

With a translator to help navigate, we discussed this with:

— Serafin Moran, Afro-Cuban journalist who won exile in the United States
https://tinyurl.com/4e8y7hs7
https://fundamedios.us/rsf-y-fundamedios-usa-agradecen-asilo-concedido-a-periodista-cubano/

 Rocio Baro, Afro-Cuban native who is director of communications for “Fondo de Arte Joven,” a platform that supports young Cuban artists in music and visual arts. She is in the U.S. as a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
https://cronkite.asu.edu/global-initiatives/humphrey-journalism-program/fellows/ >

— Dagmar Thiel, CEO of Fundamedios < https://www.fundamedios.org/>, who in 2021 moderated and helped organize National Press Club Forum, “Latin American Press Under Siege”
https://www.padf.org/democracy-governance-and-human-rights/press-under-siege/

— Darcy Borrero Batista, journalist and human rights defender. She was part of a cross-border investigation in 19 countries, including Cuba, “Violence During Quarantine,” which just won a One World Media Award.

She wrote on LinkedIn, “WE WON:) all Cubans… especially the more than 1000 women who, as a result of this research, raised their voices to tell their birth experiences. I celebrate for them [including my mother] and for us authors, especially for those who created the enormous project that is Partos Rotos. Thank you for inviting me to collaborate! Cuban journalism is celebrating despite censorship, intimidation, harassment and exile. Congratulations to all!”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darcy-borrero-batista-870262140/

Also see:

An Independent Afro-Cuban Journalist’s Statement to the Journal-isms Roundtable < https://tinyurl.com/4yz6fd6s > by Julio A. Rojas


Cuba has been in the consciousness of many Americans at least the rise of Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs invasion, and through every presidential election in which the Cuban American vote has been part of the story.

Co-organizers for this Roundtable were Ivan Roman, who is on our Roundtable organizing committee, and is a former executive director of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and has made three reporting trips to Cuba, and Zita Arocha, a native of Cuba who is about to publish a memoir, “Guajira, the Cuba Girl,” which has already won a book prize from the Inlandia Institute. She is founder of Borderzine.com, a Poynter Institute project consultant, and a professor emeritus of communication at University of Texas El Paso. Some  know Zita from her work with NAHJ. Bio: https://borderzine.com/author/zarocha/

YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/jtHuUfjZrGg >

Column (English): The Embargo Made Them Do It: Journalists Accuse Cuba’s Rulers of Scapegoating

.< https://tinyurl.com/3aurwmdr >

Spanish:  El embargo les obligó a hacerlo: Periodistas acusan a los gobernantes de Cuba de ser chivos expiatorios < https://tinyurl.com/2er24nk5 >

Nov. 19, 2023

Malcolm Nance

One of our favorite Roundtable guests, Malcolm Nance, rejoined us for a Zoom Roundtable on Sunday, Nov. 19.
 
Malcolm is a former counterintelligence agent who has written books about ISIS, Team Trump’s “Plot to Betray America” and related subjects and was an MSNBC commentator. He is profiled by the International Spy Museum: < https://tinyurl.com/yx57mw5y >. Last we heard from Malcolm, in April 2022, he was joining the Ukrainian soldiers fighting the Russian invasion.
 
 
(Photo by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks, at Jan. 2020 Journal-isms Roundtable)  
 

We toasted Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins, first Black woman to become president of the Society of Professional Journalists.

(Photo: In September, incoming SPJ President Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins, right, speaks with Laura De la Garza Garcia in Las Vegas about the decision to not hold an SPJ conference in 2024. < https://tinyurl.com/28t6zjae > (Credit: SPJ)

We toasted the new NABJ – Philadelphia chapter, with Michael Days, president, and Melanie Burney vice president. (Photo: Melanie Burney at the lectern, with other members of the new NABJ – Philadelphia, at the Oct. 27 NABJ board meeting in the city, at which the chapter was approved.  Credit: Curtis Brown)

“In the House”:

Christopher​ Shell, fellow, American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who has surveyed African American attitudes toward the Israel-Hamas War gave a sneak preview of the results.

Video: Journal-isms Roundtable with Malcolm Nance, Nov. 19, 2023 (edited+) – YouTube

Column: Blacks Led Whites in Supporting Cease-Fire – journal-isms.com

Oct. 1, 2023, 1 p.m. EDT — “When the Authorities Abuse Journalists”

A hybrid Zoom and in-person session at the Washington, D.C., home of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press < http://www.rcfp.org/about.html >

 

With special guest: Roy Wood Jr., “”American humorist, stand-up comedian, radio personality, actor, producer, podcaster, and writer best known for his correspondent appearances on The Daily Show.” He entertained at last spring’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner < https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2398653/bio/ >

and:

Earl Caldwell, veteran journalist whose dilemma over a government demand to reveal his sources in the Black Panther organization < https://tinyurl.com/2p9t35wm > prompted the Reporters Committee’s founding in 1970 < https://www.rcfp.org/our-history/ >

— Veteran First Amendment lawyer Lee Levine, who is writing a book about Caldwell and his press-freedom case < https://tinyurl.com/ytxafufn >

Amr Alfiky, Egyptian photojournalist apprehended by the New York Police Department in 2020 in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood while filming NYPD officers. He is one of five photographers who on Sept. 5 won a settlement with the NYPD to improve its treatment of members of the press and improve reporters’ access to a protest to be able to record and report. < https://tinyurl.com/ypv835fy >

Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association and visual journalist, a negotiator of the Sept. 5 agreement with NYPD. < https://nationalpress.org/speaker/mickey-h-osterreicher/ >

Also “in the room”:

Eduardo Beckett, immigration lawyer who in September helped secure, after 15 years, U.S. asylum for Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto. < https://tinyurl.com/y3uxy2c5 >.

Column: < http://tinyurl.com/4swzr7zu >

YouTube video: < https://tinyurl.com/yc89enk4 >  

Full Earl Caldwell interview < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eHwz52fdek >

Column on Roy Wood’s appearance:  < https://tinyurl.com/27m63bhw >

Aug. 20, 2023

How the Democrats Plan to Wage the 2024 Presidential Campaign

 

Cedric Richmond (pictured), co-chair, Biden-Harris campaign

Michael Tyler, newly named communications director for the Biden-Harris Campaign
https://tinyurl.com/4jba8chr

and Quentin Fulks, principal deputy manager of the reelection campaign. Democratic strategist most recently serving as campaign manager for Sen. Raphael Warnock’s 2022 successful reelection campaign in Georgia.

https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/quentin-fulks

Also “in the room”:

Leroy Chapman, editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Jessica Fulton, interim president, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Judy Kang, program manager, USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative

Nikole Killion, congressional correspondent for CBS News

Dominik Whitehead, vice president of campaigns, NAACP

and a toast to Alex Mena, newly named executive editor of the Miami Herald.

YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNikKeYZH80

Column: https://tinyurl.com/567sm48m

July 31, 2023:

“Have the media improved their coverage of crime since the case of the Central Park Five, now the Exonerated Five?

David P. Kreizer, attorney for Korey Wise of the Exonerated Five, formerly the Central Park Five
https://kreizerlaw.com/david-p-kreizer-esq/

Carroll Bogert, president, The Marshall Project

Susan Chira, editor-in-chief, The Marshall Project

Letrell Crittenden, Ph.D, director of inclusion and audience growth, American Press Institute
https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/author/lcrittenden/

Diamond Hardiman, reparative journalism program manager, Media 270, Free Press
https://www.freepress.net/about/staff/diamond-hardiman

Dan Shelley, president and CEO, Radio Television Digital News Association | RTDNA Foundation

Elinor Tatum, publisher & editor in chief, New York Amsterdam News

Collette Watson, director, Media 270 project, Free Press; vice president of cultural strategy, Free Press

www.mediareparations.org
www.freepress.net

We toasted Andale Gross, race and ethnicity editor at the Associated Press, who has been named managing editor of the Kansas City Star. < https://tinyurl.com/4t9b6s6t >

Video:  < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72PB4dRrsKs >  Column: < http://tinyurl.com/2p8bw663 >

June 25, 2023, simulcast on Facebook at < https://www.facebook.com/RPjournalisms/ >

“How U.S. Ambassadors of Color See the World.”

A PBS documentary was titled ““The American Diplomat: FIRST-CLASS PATRIOTS ABROAD. SECOND-CLASS CITIZENS AT HOME.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken says, “During my confirmation hearing, I said that I would judge the success of my tenure, in part, by how well I lead the Department to be more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible. Together, we will make the Department a more effective organization, better equipped to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century.”

Panelists:

— Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, who is leaving her position as the State Department’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer.

— Ambassador (ret.) Charles A. Ray, chair, Africa Program and trustee, Foreign Policy Research Institute; former board member, Association of Black American Ambassadors; has been posted to Cambodia and Zimbabwe.

— Prof. Michael L. Krenn, history professor, Appalachian State University. His 1999 book, “Black Diplomacy: African Americans and the State Department, 1945-1969,” was the inspiration for “The American Diplomat.” and he appears in the film.  < https://tinyurl.com/muxncxj >

— Ambassador (ret.) Aurelia Brazeal. “Serving 41 years in the United States Foreign Service, Ambassador Aurelia Erskine Brazeal was the first African American woman to be appointed ambassador by three presidential administrations.” < https://tinyurl.com/2p87d88n >

We also toasted:

Claire Smith, winner of the 2023 Red Smith Award. “She is the first African American woman to win the award, given annually by the Associated Press Sports Editors to a writer or editor who has made major contributions to sports journalism. Smith is the sixth woman and fourth Black journalist to win the award,” which is “regarded as the highest sports journalism honor in the United States.”

Nicole Avery Nichols, new editor of the Detroit Free Press.

Yvette Walker, new vice president and editorial page editor at the Kansas City Star.

Column:  < https://tinyurl.com/bddwvsfx > Video < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnk47MHRACo >

May 21, 2023 

 

The 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners. Pulitzer column here: < https://tinyurl.com/rue53x9d >

Among those in the discussion:

James V. Grimaldi, Wall Street Journal, part of the team that won in investigative reporting for “sharp accountability reporting on financial conflicts of interest among officials at 50 federal agencies, revealing those who bought and sold stocks they regulated and other ethical violations by individuals charged with safeguarding the public’s interest.”

Marjorie Miller, Pulitzer Prize administrator.

Ron Nixon, the Associated Press’ vice president, news and head of investigations, enterprise, partnerships and grants and a Black journalist. The AP won the award for public service for “courageous reporting from the besieged city of Mariupol that bore witness to the slaughter of civilians in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”

Toluse Olorunnipa, co-winner with Robert Samuels for their book, “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, “An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown.”

Kyle Whitmire of AL.com, Birmingham, who won “for measured and persuasive columns that document how Alabama’s Confederate heritage still colors the present with racism and exclusion, told through tours of its first capital, its mansions and monuments–and through the history that has been omitted.”

We also heard from Merrill Brown, editorial director at G/O Media, who will be hiring the next editor of The Root. See: < https://tinyurl.com/424asn6a > (second item), and Hank Klibanoff’s update on his Cold Case project.  < https://www.wabe.org/shows/buried-truths/ >

Video: < https://youtu.be/pOvUtBtaR44 > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/xawepja3 >

April 17, 2023

What we can learn from Randall Robinson

< https://tinyurl.com/3akfb7he >

Cecelie Counts, formerly TransAfrica’s chief organizer and strategist.

Gwen McKinney, communications strategist who represented TransAfrica; creator and campaign director of Unerased: Black Women Speak < https://unerasedbws.com/>

with journalists:

Allison Davis
Courtland Milloy Jr.
Randall Pinkston

Brenda Wilson

Joe Davidson’s interview with Randall in 1983 for the National Leader:
< https://blackagendareport.com/interview-randall-robinson-third-world-advocate-1983 >

and African American journalist Terrell Jermaine Starr, who has been with us before to discuss Ukraine, tweeted from Israel:

“You can’t comprehend what Palestinians are experiencing until you come here and see it for yourself.”

 More in Terrell’s Twitter feed: < https://twitter.com/terrelljstarr >

Background video: Marc Lamont Hill, “Why Black People Should Care About Palestinian Liberation” (The Root, 2020) < https://tinyurl.com/359xyuv5 >

We toasted Ju-Don Marshall, just named president and CEO of WFAE, the public radio station in Charlotte, N.C. < https://tinyurl.com/j4z63ran >.

 Narrative, part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/ykbns7vv > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/3y45ehxx > Video:  < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Jr-3ZOKws >

March 28, 2023

By now, most of us have heard about the concerns that artificial intelligence prompts both in journalism and for people of color, and we discussed them both at this Journal-isms Roundtable.

Renée Cummings of the University of Virginia, who joined the School of Data Science in 2020 as the School’s first Data Activist in Residence. “She is a Criminologist, Criminal Psychologist, Artificial Intelligence Ethicist, Therapeutic Jurisprudence Specialist, and Urban Technologist. Her areas of research interests include artificial intelligence, political science, and criminology. She studies the impact of artificial intelligence on criminal justice, specifically in communities of color and incarcerated populations,” according to her bio. https://datascience.virginia.edu/people/renee-cummings

Calvin D. Lawrence, a distinguished engineer at IBM and member of IBM’s Corporate AI Ethics board as well as its Academy of Technology. His forthcoming book is “Hidden in White Sight: How AI Empowers and Deepens Systemic Racism.” https://hiddeninwhitesight.com
In his book, “Lawrence reveals startling evidence of the technology used by policing and judicial systems that contain in-built biases stemming from human prejudices and systemic or institutional preferences. However, he attests, there are steps AI developers and technologists can do to redress the balance.”

Nicol Turner Lee of the Brookings Institution, where she is “a senior fellow in Governance Studies, the director of the Center for Technology Innovation, and serves as Co-Editor-In-Chief of TechTank. . . . She is an expert on the intersection of race, wealth, and technology within the context of civic engagement, criminal justice, and economic development.” (and she has a lot to say about the need for anti-racism within the artificial intelligence field.

— Angle Bush, founder, Black Women In Artificial Intelligence < www.blackwomeninai.com >

We also toasted Jim Trotter, the NFL reporter whose contract was not renewed after questioning NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about NFL diversity (see < https://tinyurl.com/8rw8x5k9 > and Leroy Chapman Jr., incoming editor-in-chief at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. See: < https://tinyurl.com/yc3zhzz3 >

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwpqaR0hiSA > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/bden7phb >

Narrative, part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/2s3wy8xs >; narrative, part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/3ah5ehdy >

Short clip of Jim Trotter appearance by Rebecca Aguilar: < https://twitter.com/RebeccaAguilar/status/1640875076781309952 >.

Feb. 19, 2023

Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., assistant House Democratic leader, returns after joining us in January 2021. (Photo by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Also:  Dennis Brownlee, founder of the African American Irish Diaspora Network https://www.aaidnet.org/

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_fZdrw5NgI >

Column: “At Journal-isms Roundtable, Clyburn Lauds Carter on Judgeships, Showing ‘How to Lose’ ” < https://tinyurl.com/yckn2kxt > (2nd item) (Feb. 19)

Column: Don Lemon Remains Off Air: To Clyburn, Haley’s Age Isn’t the Problem (Feb. 20)

Column: Shamrocks to Sprout at Black Colleges: Irish, African Diaspora Have Complicated History (March 16) 

Column: Clyburn Renews Push to Honor ‘Lift Every Voice’ (March 29)

Narrative Part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/5xnjr3y8 > Part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/4kxtjykb >

Feb. 6, 2023

Our first hybrid in-person and Zoom Roundtable, hosted by American University. 

The guest was Dr. Julius Garvey, a surgeon and son of the legendary Black nationalist and Pan Africanist Marcus Garvey — who used journalism to communicate his message via his newspaper, The Negro World, from 1918 to 1933.

Senghor Baye, a longtime leader of the current iteration of Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, also spoke. “The journalism piece is critical,” he had said, speaking of Garvey’s movement.

Paula Laura Alberto, who edited the recent “Voices of the Race: Black Newspapers in Latin America, 1870-1960,” discussed the Black Press in Latin America and the influence of The Negro World among Afro-Latin American thinkers and journalists.

We toasted Joy Thomas Moore, mother of new Maryland Gov. Wes Moore — only the third elected Black governor in the nation’s history — and received an update from the principals behind the proposed Center for Black Excellence and Culture in Madison, Wis.

Video:< https://youtu.be/xegpENXEGbs >. Column: < https://tinyurl.com/59bsz9c8 >. Narrative (Facebook): <http://tinyurl.com/mzzhxu5f

Jan. 30, 2023

“Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?”

Ellis Cose, journalist and author of “Race and Reckoning: From Founding Fathers to Today’s Disruptors.” 

Katie Galioto, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, who has been covering city hall in St. Paul for the past two years and is following this story she reported:
St. Paul forms permanent reparations commission in move toward ‘real racial justice’

Rachel Swarns, journalist, author and journalism professor at NYU. In 2016, Rachel broke the story about Georgetown University’s relationship to slavery. Her forthcoming book — The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church — will be published by Random House in June. 

Nkechi Taifa, lawyer and reparations advocate who has just published “Reparations on Fire: How and Why it’s Spreading Across America

Alvin B. Tillery Jr., Ph.D., professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Diversity and Democracy. He is leading a study of reparations developments in Evanston, Ill. “On March 22, 2021, the Evanston City Council passed an ordinance, introduced by Alderman Robin Rue Simmons, to earmark the first $10 million from a 3% tax on legalized cannabis sales to fund a reparations program for Black residents.”

Also in the “room”:

A member of the St. Paul city council’s reparations legislative advisory committee
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/st-paul-city-council-establishes-permanent-reparations-commission/

Trahern Crews, founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota,
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/derek-chauvin-trial-verdict/card/yGMknGmLLRXkfiPniDVY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q_ZnOuPZjg
https://www.gp.org/trahern_crews_2021_sc_candidate

and:

Ruben Navarrette Jr., syndicated columnist (“Mexican Americans are not seeking reparations“) 

YouTube video: <  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUV1rVGoKhY  > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/5ns2tr87 > Narrative part 1, < https://tinyurl.com/mw3jsyts >; part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/2p9ed9v2 >

 

 

 Dec. 18, 2022

What Journalists Need to Know About Africa

Melvin Foote, president and CEO of the Constituency for Africa, < https://dominiontv.net/an-interview-with-melvin-p-foote-president-and-chief-executive-officer-of-constituency-for-africa/>

Emmanuel K. Dogbevi, managing editor at Ghana Business News and executive director at NewsBridge Africa. He wrote “In Ghana, Only a Handful of Journalists Are Able To Do Critical Reporting” for Nieman Reports while at Columbia last summer on a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship. < https://niemanreports.org/articles/ghana-democracy-pres-freedom/ >. Emmanuel is back in West Africa, and messaged, “Most journalists practicing in the West have no idea what it takes to practice journalism in Africa. I see that all the time when I am working on collaborative projects.”

Milton Allimadi, teaches African history at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, publisher, the Black Star News, Ugandan-American.  Last year, Journal-isms ran “How the Western Media Demonized Africa,” an excerpt from his book.
https://www.journal-isms.com/2021/07/how-the-western-media-demonized-africa/

Karen Attiah, columnist and former global opinions editor, Washington Post; former Fulbright scholar to Ghana, has reported from Curacao, Nigeria, Ghana; author of “
It’s not just Trump: Western media has long treated black and brown countries like ‘shitholes’ (2018) < https://tinyurl.com/mssaf9ks >

Kiratiana Freelon, international correspondent in Rio de Janeiro; co-chair, NABJ Global Journalism Task Force.

Rodney Sieh, editor-in-chief and publisher, investigative publication FrontPageAfrica, Liberia,

J. Siguru Wahutu, PhD, NYU assistant professor, media, culture and communication; faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. (Research subjects: – Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology of Media; Data Privacy; Media Manipulation; Human Rights Violations; Genocide and Mass Atrocity; Sub-Sahara Africa)

Timed to follow the U.S-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, Dec. 13-15 < https://www.state.gov/africasummit/

 Press Freedom to Be Topic at U.S.-African Summit < https://tinyurl.com/3y67cdfa > (scroll down)

Column: <  https://tinyurl.com/bdry2rz5  >. YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/xUc9TpkKlSA > Narrative: < https://tinyurl.com/sh55dv8s >

Nov. 20, 2022:

What about the Black and Asian asylum seekers? And other undercovered immigration stories.

Three items in the Nov. 6 “Journal-isms” column were our focus:
 
‘Racism and Abuse Toward Black Migrants’
Weak Immigration Coverage Has Consequences
BBC Details Beating Deaths of African Migrants
 
You can catch up here:
https://tinyurl.com/37h32rnp  

Panelists:

—  Zita Arocha, founder of Borderzine.com, Poynter Institute project consultant, professor emeritus of communication at University of Texas El Paso. Some may know Zita from her work with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Bio: https://borderzine.com/author/zarocha/

  Liz Robbins, director of journalism partnerships at Define American, the organization founded by former reporter Jose Antonio Vargas. Define American has just released a report on news coverage of the immigration issue and how it can do better. Liz was the lead author. In a previous life, Liz was a sportswriter at the New York Times and Washington Post. < https://defineamerican.com/team/ >
 

 Kham S. Moua, national deputy director, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
 
Jeff Mighliozzi, communications director, Freedom for Immigrants, one of the groups behind the recent report < https://tinyurl.com/2rnumn89 > indicating a pattern of racism and abuse toward Black migrants.
 

Spencer Woodman, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, author of “Solitary Voices” report
https://www.icij.org/investigations/solitary-voices/three-years-after-icijs-solitary-voices-isolation-still-commonplace-in-us-prisons-and-detention-centers/ that found, “Advocates have expressed particular shock at the use of solitary in ICE’s dozens of detention centers, as many ICE detainees have never been accused of a crime and are not being held as a form of punishment. .  . .”

In addition, a toast to Claire Regan, new president of the Society of Professional Journalists, and a presentation from Julieanna Richardson, founder of TheHistoryMakers https://www.thehistorymakers.org/

 

 

Oct. 16, 2022:

Dean Baquet (pictured) stepped down as the first African American to lead the New York Times newsroom, and it was widely viewed as a successful editorship. He joined us in his new role leading a local investigative Times fellowship. < https://tinyurl.com/4pzzhwpx >

With him were the new co-managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan.  We also toasted Don Hudson (pictured), named new editor of Newsday. < https://tinyurl.com/4s9pybrd > (scroll down), who joined the conversation. YouTube video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx-SVqBjcc  > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/5k89bkmr > Narrative, Part 1: < https://tinyurl.com/yckkmdhk >
Part 2: < https://tinyurl.com/u9tm5rv7 >

Sept. 26, 2022:

How do historians of color look at the state of U.S. democracy in 2022, and how should journalists frame their first rough drafts of history?

With, in alphabetical order:

Philip Deloria, first specialist in Native American studies on the Harvard faculty. https://bit.ly/3SZvUfT . Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History; Traditional Territory of the Massachusett People

Stewart Kwoh, a co-founder and co-executive director of the Asian American Education Project https://asianamericanedu.org/ and founder and president emeritus of Asian American Advancing Justice – LA

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and is former director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/k…

Aimee M. Villarreal, Ph.D, assistant professor, Department of Anthropology, Texas State University; focused on restorative justice and racial reconciliation processes related to public representations of history and identity in the U.S, Southwest. https://bit.ly/3xjjeas [PDF]

In addition, Ray Suarez, journalist and podcaster, formerly of the “PBS NewsHour” and author of “Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation,” returned to help moderate. He is now teaching at NYU Shanghai! https://bit.ly/3QTSVyF

We presented a brief remembrance of the late broadcast journalist Bernard Shaw, with a discussion among his journalist friends Kenneth Walker, Clarence Page, Lynne Adrine and Eugene Robinson.

And we toasted Ron Nixon on his promotion to VP for investigative, enterprise, grants and partnerships at the Associated Press.

Video:  < (103) Journal-isms Roundtable, September 26, 2022 – YouTube > Column:  Was U.S. Ever a Democracy for People of Color? – journal-isms.com

Aug. 28, 2022
 
Bruce Talamon went around the country photographing Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Bootsy CollinsEarth Wind and Fire and other R&B and soul music stars of the 1970s.

Now he has an exhibit, “Hotter Than July,” at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.  < https://www.rockhall.com/exhibitions/hotter-july >

Bruce discussed this work, as well as his coverage of the 1984 Jesse Jackson campaign and the other Black journalists on the trail. 

We toasted Yvette Cabrera, the new president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, and Marquita Smith, Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship winner as the journalism educator who has done the most for diversity.
.  
 
July 19, 2022

“Is crushing student loan debt killing off our pipeline of journalists, especially those of color?”

Also, a remembrance of the esteemed lawyer and diversity advocate Clifford Alexander, and a brief update on post-mass shooting conditions in Buffalo, N.Y.

Cliff guided and represented the Washington Post Metro Seven in their 1972 EEOC complaint against the Washington Post < https://bit.ly/3hG6tgi >, and hosted “Cliff Alexander: Black on White” in 1973 and 1974. That show originated at WJLA-TV in Washington but aired in all of the top 10 markets.

Maureen Bunyan organized a brief segment about Cliff to open our Roundtable. All of the Washington Post Metro Seven, whom Cliff advised in their 1972 EEOC complaint, were represented.

Dawn Bracely, editorial writer at the Buffalo News, told us how the city was faring since the May 14 shooting in Buffalo’s Black community that left 10 people dead.

Discussing the student loan issue were:

— Carrington Tatum, who in June wrote “Loans got me into journalism. Student debt pushed me out.” < https://bit.ly/3RteaIV>

— Wendi C. Thomas, editor and publisher, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, who responded with, “When student loans and the housing crisis force journalists out of the business.” <https://bit.ly/3z3WgFi >

— Dan Shelley, president and CEO, Radio Television Digital News Association, who says, “Unfortunately, this is a problem that is much bigger than just student debt. . . .”

— Ashley Harrington, senior adviser to the chief operating officer at Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education.

— Mary E. Cavallaro, chief broadcast officer for the SAG-AFTRA News & Broadcast Department, and Bob Butler, former NABJ president and current broadcast vice president, SAG-AFTRA
https://www.sagaftra.org/about/executive-staff/mary-cavallaro

Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3C9qetA > and < https://bit.ly/3SPUcZr > Video: < https://youtu.be/qTuv0GrQPAo 
 
June 5, 2022
 

Washington Post reporters Robert Samuels and Touluse Olorunnipa discussed their new “His Name Is George Floyd,” < https://bit.ly/3xeR40A >, and were questioned by panelists Natalie Hopkinson, Ken Lemon and Caroline Brewer.
 
We toasted Terence Samuel, named vice president and executive editor at NPR, “leading NPR’s news gathering teams effective immediately”  https://n.pr/3wX3pGt >. and Jennifer Kho,new executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times < https://bit.ly/3MtATkB >
 
Narrative and photos, Part 1, on Facebook: < https://bit.ly/39HxlO1 >  Part 2: < https://bit.ly/39HxlO1 > Column: < https://tinyurl.com/37r9hypk >.
 

May 22, 2022

We celebrated the 2022 Pulitzer winners, a diverse group announced May 9.  < https://bit.ly/3vXvCwk>. We wanted to hear what other journalists can learn from their experience and how they accomplished what they did. 
 
Monica Richardson, Miami Herald — winner for breaking news
Melinda Henneberger, Sacramento Bee — winner for commentary
Corey Johnson, Tampa Bay Times — winner in investigative reporting
Cecilia Reyes, Chicago Tribune — winner for local reporting
Kim Barker and Michael Keller, New York Times — winners for national reporting
Luis Carrasco, Seattle Times — winner in editorial writing
Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times — winning in breaking news photography
 
 Kevin Merida, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times and a member of the Pulitzer Board. 
 
And finalists:
Darryl Fears, Washington Post, national reporting <https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-washington-post-0>-
Kimberly Johnson, Wall Street Journal, explanatory reporting  < https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-wall-street-journal-3 >
Column: < https://tinyurl.com/46jka8dz > , Narrative and photos – Part 1: <https://bit.ly/3LTMNns> Part 2: < https://bit.ly/3sWIelp >
 

April 24, 2022

With Ukraine the top news story of 2022, and critics asking whether the news media are giving other tragedies around the world their due, we discuss who gets to be a foreign correspondent, how much diversity there is among them, and what it’s like to be one. 

We are joined by Terrell Jermaine Starr (pictured), to our knowledge the only African American journalist reporting consistently from Ukraine, doing so since before the Russian invasion.

And panelists:

Michael Slackman, AME/international for the New York Times

– Eva Rodriguez, who has just left the Washington Post as deputy foreign editor. (She started April 11 as editor-in-chief of The Fuller Project, “a global non-profit newsroom that focuses on matters and issues that impact women/girls.”)

Dan Lothian, executive producer, “The World” on public radio.

Gary Lee, a former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post and Time, who later reported from more than 60 countries for the Washington Post travel section.

And journalists calling in from South Africa, China, England and Thailand

From South Africa: John Eligon of the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/by/john-eligon
From China: Dake Kang of the Associated Press.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dakekang/
From England: Selam Gebrekidan, investigative reporter at the New York Times https://www.linkedin.com/in/selam-gebrekidan-1069b752/
From Thailand, Joe Ritchie, New York Times International Edition, Hong Kong

From Mexico, Morris Thompson, retired editor/foreign correspondent, Knight Ridder and Newsday.

Column: < https://bit.ly/3P12eNh >; Video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0tVfCjyvog>; Narrative, part 1:  < https://bit.ly/3Ftmp23 >; Narrative, part 2:  < https://bit.ly/3KV84MN >

March 28, 2022

“Askia Muhammad and the Critical Role of the Black Columnist.”

Topic A was Will Smith’s slapping Chris Rock at the Academy Awards the night before. But we also had on the table such questions as:

Can columnists write whatever they want? Do Black columnists feel pressured not to write “so much” about race? Are there topics more columnists should address? Do Black columnists have a different mandate than others?

Black columnists discussed the environment in which their colleague, the late Askia Muhammad, https://bit.ly/3rYEnUU plied his craft.

Washington’s Pacifica station WPFW-FM, streamed at wpfwfm.org, broadcast a 24-hour tribute to Askia on Monday, March 28, 2022, his birthday.

This radio version of the Journal-isms Roundtable aired from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time.

Participating in the discussion were:

Todd Steven Burroughs, public historian, media consultant and contractor, Black press historian
Monroe Anderson, “cyber columnist,” Chicago
Kevin B. Blackistone, Washington Post sports columnist, professor at the University of Maryland, ESPN panelist
Mary C. Curtis, columnist, Roll Call; contributor, NPR/WFAE Charlotte; senior facilitator/Public Voices Fellowship Program | The OpEd Project 

Courtland Milloy, Metro columnist, Washington Post
Barbara Reynolds, former columnist, USA Today and Chicago Tribune.

Michael Paul Williams, columnist, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary

. . . and listener call-ins.

(Column: https://bit.ly/3JgwBLN) (Video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JCZ5-C698> )

Photo: A meeting of the Trotter Group of African American columnists in Jackson, Miss., in 2014, where the group visited civil rights landmarks.  Askia is second from left. (Credit: Keith McMillan)

March 20, 2022

Hank Klibanoff, director of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University (coldcases.emory.edu), a former managing editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and co-author of “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation,” among other experiences, on the cold cases project. The resemblance of the Ahmaud Arbery story (pictured) to much older murders from the Jim Crow South is impossible to resist, he says. Column: < https://bit.ly/3qFlHsl > Narrative and photos : Part 1: < https://bit.ly/3JKhqvg >. Part 2: <  https://bit.ly/3LgYS6a >  Video: < https://bit.ly/3iE6Qdk >

March 1, 2022

Malcolm Nance, MSNBC analyst and former counterintelligence agent, just back from a month in Ukraine; 

Remi Adekoya, Nigerian-Polish journalist who spent 19 years in Poland and teaches politics at the University of York in Britain <https://bit.ly/3M4R9cz >; author of “Biracial Britain” < https://bit.ly/36D3xAd >

Video: < https://youtu.be/1OxThjPmKcc > Column: < https://bit.ly/3MypXTY > Narrative, Part 1, is at: < https://bit.ly/35sr7zI > Part 2 is at < https://bit.ly/35xVZ1B >

Feb. 27, 2022

WATERSIDE

Photojournalists of color

 Chester Higgins, former staff photographer for The New York Times, will discuss his latest book, “Sacred Nile,” followed by a panel of photojournalists of color: 

Marie D. DeJesus, staff photojournalist at the Houston Chronicle and president of the National Press Photographers Association <  http://www.mariedejesus.com/about-me >;

Monica Herndon, staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer who is part of its “Wildest Dreams” project < https://bit.ly/3L5XRyw > featuring Black photojournalists;

Carl Juste; longtime photographer for the Miami Herald and founder of the Iris PhotoCollective < https://irisphotocollective.com/ >;

—  Hyungwon Kang, former photographer or photo editor for the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and Reuters, preparing his second coffee table book on the history of Korea. < https://www.kang.org/korea >

Eugene Tapahe, Navajo, designer, artist and photographer who specializes in the landscape and people of the Southwest. < https://tapahe.com/ >.

Chester Higgins said, ” ‘Sacred Nile’ will change the way you think about our history and the central role of Africans in faith making.” He called it “a photographic work 50 years in the making about our ancient work with the spirit.” We discussed why so few photographers of color are working as photographers in major news media outlets, and the need to increase diversity in visuals staffs and in newsroom leadership.

Co-sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zF_t8qaq4 >  Column: <  https://tinyurl.com/yp8w9j6n > (second item) Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3B7JhlV > Column: < https://bit.ly/3xf5hdy > (second item) Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zF_t8qaq4 > 

Journal-isms is a partner of the American University School of Communication

January 2022

On Jan. 23, we heard from cartoonists of color:

Lalo Alcaraz < https://laloalcaraz.com/ >
Ray Billingsley < http://www.billingsleyart.com/Main-Page.html > (pictured)
Barbara Brandon-Croft < https://inthetrove.com/barbara-brandoncroft >

Hector Cantú < https://to.pbs.org/3f0SNfS >
Walt Carr < http://carrtoonsplus.com/ >
Rob King, former cartoonist, now ESPN exec < https://espnpressroom.com/us/bios/king_rob/ >
Angelo Lopez < https://angelolopez.wordpress.com/>, <https://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoonists/lopeza/ >
Marty Two Bulls < http://m2bulls.com/ >

and on “comics journalism,” Josh Neufeld < https://bit.ly/3F6Ry9W >

Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf9JqCHRV8w >; column < https://bit.ly/3KZlHMu >. Narrative, Part 1 < https://bit.ly/3se91Zk > Narrative, Part 2 < https://bit.ly/349OSM0 > Part 3 at < https://bit.ly/3IXDIbZ >

December 2021

Four writers from the forthcoming “Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America,” < https://bit.ly/3q4HRoq >, edited by Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield. The book also covers efforts by the Black press to counter that Jim Crow narrative.

The Roundtable was co-sponsored by the Minorities and Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), journalism professors whose leaders were present. In attendance were industry figures, journalists and activists knowledgeable about the history of racism in American newspapers. Column: < https://bit.ly/3q1rp6C > Video: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX5VzlTekZM  > Narrative and photos: <   >, part 1;  < https://bit.ly/3J6rz5I >, part 2.

November 2021

How Black women’s issues play out in the media. With: Nichelle Smith, enterprise editor for racism and history, USA Today;  Errin Haines, editor-at-large at The 19th; dream hampton, creator of the 2019 “Surviving R. Kelly” documentary series; Yanick Rice Lamb, publisher of fierceforblackwomen.com  and journalism professor at Howard University; and Sonya Ross, former AP journalist and founder of the website blackwomenunmuted.com. (Photo credit: Lifetime/MSN) Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU67ME2zNVE

Narrative and photos on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3cbNYyX (Part 1) and https://bit.ly/3cgC07g (Part 2); Column: < https://bit.ly/3qGCUST >.  

October 2021

Journal-isms Roundtable hears from Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles and Keith Harriston, authors of “Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America,” and congratulates Jackie Jones, Amanda Barrett, Nick Charles and Norman Parish

Column: < https://bit.ly/3ArKhyQ > Video: < https://bit.ly/3mH5xMn > Photos by Don Baker/Don Baker Photography Group. Narrative: Part 1 is at: < https://bit.ly/3iNO57B > Part 2 is at: < https://bit.ly/3aq7zLc >

September 2021

Justice!

— Vanita Gupta, associate attorney general
https://bit.ly/3m6AnO1

Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights
https://bit.ly/3kQBh1E

Amy L. Solomon, acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Justice Programs (oversees the Bureau of Justice Statistics, source of a wealth of information for journalists.)
https://bit.ly/2YdqwxX

Anthony D. Coley, director, Office of Public Affairs, and senior adviser to the attorney general
https://bit.ly/3maLiXa

Kenneth A. Polite Jr., assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division
https://bit.ly/2Y113HP

Ronald Davis, director, U.S. Marshals Service
https://bit.ly/3offHWL

Column: <https://bit.ly/3llaHhr> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REUpTTWkhs

August 2021

The United States pullout from Afghanistan, with Malcolm Nance, MSNBC chief terrorism expert, Ozier Muhammad, Ron Claiborne and Randall Pinkston, who covered Afghanistan while they worked for The New York Times, ABC News and CBS News, respectively. Maria Reeve and Katrice Hardy, the new top editors of the Houston Chronicle and Dallas Morning News; and Trey Baker,  White House senior adviser for African American outreach/public engagement, and Erica Loewe, White House director of African American media. Column < https://bit.ly/3koc11o > Narrative and photos < https://bit.ly/2WWEjs5 > (Part 1) and < https://bit.ly/3n5bEvF > (Part 2). Video < https://bit.ly/3jKoVI5 >

July 2021

 

“Straight Talk on TV Hair,” with Rashida Jones, recently named named president of MSNBC, Anzio Williams, senior vice president, diversity, equity and inclusion for NBC Owned Stations; Ava Thompson Greenwell, professor at the Medill School and author of the new “Ladies Leading: The Black Women Who Control Television News”;

Ramon Escobar, senior vice president, talent recruitment & development, CNN Worldwide; Josh Eure, vp/live programming at Black News Channel; and Pulitzer Prize winner Tamara Payne and her brother Jamal Payne, celebrating the honor accorded the book written by their late dad, Les Payne, with Tamara, “The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.”

They were joined by members of Investigative Reporters & Editors and David Boardman, dean of the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, who has just announced creation of the Logan Center for Urban Investigative Reporting. Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3Aq3qSa >; column < https://bit.ly/3CuZUb2 > video  https://bit.ly/3iyyitC >. Photos by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks

June 2021

New L.A. Times executive editor Kevin Merida and his wife, writer Donna Britt; DeNeen Brown (pictured) and Gary Lee, who have been on the ground in Tulsa, Okla., site of the 1921 massacre, as well as Tulsa native Roy S. Johnson; new Pulitzer Prize winners Frank Franklin and Michael Paul Williams; and Amber Payne and Bina Venkataraman, representatives of The Emancipator, the new collaboration between antiracism leader Ibram Kendi and the Boston Globe.< https://bit.ly/3itmMjC >. Narrative, part 1: <https://bit.ly/3xK928J>;  Narrative, part 2: < https://bit.ly/3gSbuTJ >; Column: < https://bit.ly/35Mw1DS >; Video: < https://youtu.be/g1b76WQ6_nQ >. (Photo credit: Courtesy Jonathan Silvers/Saybrook Productions Ltd.)

May 2021

 

“Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology): How journalists can better cover environmental justice/environmental racism.”

Charles Lee, senior policy adviser for environmental justice at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency < https://bit.ly/3bWU46X > — Mustafa Santiago Ali, formerly of the Hip-Hop Caucus and EPA, now vice president of environmental justice, climate, and community revitalization, National Wildlife Federation < https://bit.ly/3u9CZfX > and < https://bit.ly/3oBi8RW >, — Dina Gilio-Whitaker, educator and writer on indigenous environmental justice and other indigenous policy-related issues < https://dinagwhitaker.wordpress.com/ > — Evlondo Cooper, writer with the climate and energy program of Media Matters for America < https://bit.ly/3bGAVFZ >, and — Heather McTeer Toney, climate justice liaison, Environmental Defense Fund < https://bit.ly/33VzwHd > We congratulated Dr. Battinto Batts Jr., named new dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. < https://bit.ly/3v4vhVZ > . Narrative, part 1: < https://bit.ly/3fKgNoY > Narrative, part 2 < https://bit.ly/3wT3S9R > Column <https://bit.ly/3g49B62> YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/25hlV3xXBo0 >

April 2021

Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, creators of “the Philly Sound” and Philadelphia International Records, along with Robin R. Terry, chair and CEO of the Motown Museum, and with Iris Gordy, a board member of the museum and former Motown executive.

Gamble and Huff are commemorating the 50th anniversary of the label, and the Motown Museum is planning an expansion of its Detroit landmark. Narrative Part 1: < https://bit.ly/3xOmPMf > Part 2: < https://bit.ly/3up8S58 > Column: < https://bit.ly/2SpC9ib >. YouTube video: < https://bit.ly/33dRxQT >
Previews:  Philadelphia International https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGLLqp0YHHk

Motown Museum  https://www.motownmuseum.org/about/expansion/

March 2021

Del. Stacey Plaskett (Credit: Washington Post)

Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, who drew kudos as House impeachment manager, Monica R. Richardson, new editor of the Miami Herald, Mike Webb, senior vice president of communications of the News Literacy Project, and Al Tompkins, senior faculty at the Poynter Institute, on what journalists can do to counter disinformation. Narrative, part 1: < https://bit.ly/3x3rLfP >; Column: < https://bit.ly/3tu4GRr>; YouTube video: < https://youtu.be/A4reOoouSAg >

February 2021

Flag burning at Asbury United Methodist Church on Dec. 12, 2020. (Credit: Victor J. Blue/New York Times)

The pastors of the two historic Black D.C. churches whose Black Lives Matter banners were burned, the Revs. William Lamar IV of Metropolitan AME and Ianther Mills of Asbury United Methodist Church, joined by Susan Corke of the Southern Poverty Law Center. George Derek Musgrove’s new website plotting all of the major Black Power events and organizations in Washington D.C. Jon Funabiki and Valerie Bush on their Renaissance Journalism Project in the Bay Area. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/37pcjPV> (Part 1) < http://bit.ly/3sdnmnx  > (Part 2) <  Column: <http://bit.ly/3qv7gF9 >. YouTube video:<https://youtu.be/QmwLtxomcmo >

January 2021
The Roundtable heard from House Majority Whip James Clyburn. Mignon Clyburn, a daughter of the congressman, former member and acting chair of the FCC, introduced her dad. We also toasted James Blue, senior producer of “PBS NewsHour,” who has been named senior vp and head of the Smithsonian cable channel. He was introduced by Charlayne Hunter-Gault. And Khorri Atkinson, newly elected president of the Washington Association of Black Journalists, introduced himself. Narrative Part 1: < http://bit.ly/3rZ46ea >  Column: Clyburn Wants to Amplify ‘Lift Every Voice’ – journal-isms.com (journal-isms.com) > Video:: <https://youtu.be/NPLVJ5_x7L0 > Added to Sharon Farmer’s photos are those from Maurita Coley (Part 2, < http://bit.ly/3bhOTyG >)

December 2020

 

“How Journalists Can Become Successful Authors ” with Dana Canedy, executive vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster (pictured) ; Wanda Lloyd, author of “Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism” and co-editor with Tina McElroy Ansa, “Meeting at the Table: African-American Women Write on Race, Culture and Community;” Karen Grey Houston, broadcast journalist and author of “Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy”;  Matt Pearce of the NewsGuild via the L.A. Times; Calvin Reid, senior news editor, Publishers Weekly ; Faith Childs, literary agent; Aminda MarquŽs Gonz‡lez, formerly executive editor of the Miami Herald, now vice president and executive editor at Simon & Schuster,  We toasted Shirley Carswell, incoming executive director of Dow Jones News Fund. Via Zoom Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Washington. Photos by  Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks.  Narrative: < http://bit.ly/3bp0lsf > Column:  <http://bit.ly/34NqLQw>; Video; <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZSJkYu_-QE&feature=youtu.be>

November 2020 

In Nov. 5 cartoon by the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste, President Jovenel Moïse remarks in Creole, “Darling, come get the champagne and put it back in the refrigerator. We will open it when the referendum is done.” Moïse enjoyed the support of the Trump administration during his own embattled presidency.
Nov. 15, 2020, Journal-isms Roundtable, by Rebecca Aguilar.

“How Others See Our U.S. Election,” with: Luis Alonso Lugo, who covers Washington for univision.com; Jacqueline Charles, Caribbean correspondent for the Miami Herald;  Anita Li of Toronto, co-founder, Canadian Journalists of Colour; Macollvie J. Neel, managing editor, Haitian Times (New York); Joseph Torres, Alicia Bell and Collette Watson of Free Press, who have released a 100-page essay, “Media 2070: An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations”; Congratulations and toasts to: Arthur Cribbs of Howard University, NABJ’s 2020 Student Journalist of the Year; Pam McAllister-Johnson, first Black female publisher of a mainstream paper, the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal (1982); to be inducted into NABJ Hall of Fame; Fred Sweets, contributing editor, St. Louis American; former photographer and editor at Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. To be inducted into NABJ Hall of Fame. Video< : https://fb.watch/1VfPJvoP8C/ >  or < https://bit.ly/3o38XrK > Column: < https://bit.ly/3ldH0vt >

October 2020

Voter suppression and the election, with:
Julián Castro, former HUD secretary and Democratic presidential candidate (pictured); Courtland Cox, chairman of the SNCC Legacy Project; Christine Chen, executive director, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote); Dan Lewerenz, staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and former president of Native American Journalists Association.
We congratulated Rebecca Aguilar on becoming president-elect of the Society of Professional Journalists, and Ivette Davila-Richards on becoming secretary-treasurer; Mei-Ling Hopgood of the Medill School, winner of the Barry Bingham fellowship for educators doing the most for diversity; and Calvin Sims, CNN’s new executive vice president of standards and practices. Via Zoom. (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Video: < https://bit.ly/2HfYhG9> Narrative < https://bit.ly/3mu7r1g > Column: < https://bit.ly/2G2HndP > September 2020

Maximizing diversity in the news media during our racial reckoning.
— Wesley Lowery,  now of “60 Minutes’” “60 in 6”  on the mobile app Quibi; former Washington Post reporter best known for reporting on police use of force against citizens,
— David Chavern, president and CEO of the News Media Alliance, the major association of newspaper publishers. 
— Maribel Perez Wadsworth, publisher of USA Today and president of news for Gannett Co.
Celebrating promotions of Angel Jennings and Kimbriell Kelly at the L.A. Times and retirement of Linda Shockley at the Dow Jones News Fund. Narrative : < https://bit.ly/3iRAIRZ > Column: < https://bit.ly/3iMiBNf >
Facebook Live video: < https://bit.ly/2RDsFfL > (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

August 2020

Tiffany Gill of the University of Delaware, who in 2010 wrote “Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry,” and Quincy T. Mills of Vassar College, on leave at the University of Maryland, author in 2014 of “Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America.”
Narrative: < https://bit.ly/3jmXReW >. Video: < https://youtu.be/eSh4yxo_u5E >. Journal-isms column < https://bit.ly/32IaF8Q > (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks))

July 2020

By Zoom, the Journal-isms Roundtable hears from Eric Deggans, television critic at NPR (pictured), and witnesses the unveiling of Lola Poisson’s painting of a Roundtable group portrait from April 2017. Video: < https://bit.ly/337X63z> Narrative: < https://bit.ly/396RwQP >, Photos by Sharon Farmer (c) sfphotoworks.

June 2020

Prison journalism and the reasons journalists should care about prisons. Speakers were William Drummond of UC Berkeley, investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell and Lawrence Brantley and Keri Blakinger of the Marshall Project. Narratives are on Facebook: < https://bit.ly/3yJkzpb > for Part 1. < https://bit.ly/3f7iHN1 > for Part 2. Video:< https://bit.ly/2zdCOde > Column: < https://bit.ly/3f0whlr >

 

 

May 2020 Homelessness

Speakers included: Chris Arnade, author of “Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America,” Eric Falquero, editorial director, Street Sense, Washington, D.C., Sylvie Sturm, journalist and a recent graduate of San Francisco State University, who compiled and analyzed hundreds of articles and columns published in the Bay Area about homelessness, Joanne Zuhl, executive editor, Street Roots, Portland, Ore., which covers poverty and homelessness, as well as Native American issues, Sheila White, a writer, photographer, filmmaker and advocate in her capacity at Street Sense Media, who just moved into her own place after seven years of homelessness; and Eric Ferrero, new executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Narrative — Part 1: < https://bit.ly/2TrvuSi > Part 2: <https://bit.ly/3g9GRrS>. Column: < https://bit.ly/3iXMagV >

April 2020

The Journal-isms Roundtable meets April 26, 2020, for the first time by Zoom. The topic was who wins, who loses in the sports world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 32 participants were led by Howard Bryant, author and writer for espn.com, and included leading sports journalists.
Narrative < https://bit.ly/3bYGFsE >; video < https://bit.ly/35dzKcN > Column < https://bit.ly/35s5Gu8 >(Photos by Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks.)

February 2020

SNCC veterans Courtland Cox, left, and Judy Richardson who will commemorate the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee’s 60th anniversary  with a conference in Washington in April < https://www.sncclegacyproject.org/sncc60 >; and Jerry Mitchell, whose new book, “Race Against Time,” is about his pursuit of civil rights, Klan-related cold cases in Mississippi. (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks) Video by Janice Temple is at < http://bit.ly/2u60Rbw > The narrative and photos are at < http://bit.ly/2v6iAzZ > for part 1 and < http://bit.ly/3cjkY7w > for part 2.

January 2020 Malcolm Nance, former counterintelligence agent and current MSNBC analyst, author of “The Plot to Betray America.” at Jan. 7, 2020, roundtable (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks) Narrative: <http://bit.ly/37PMWV8>. Videos by Janice Temple < https://www.periscope.tv/w/1YqGodAaBEjJv > and Don Baker < https://vimeo.com/38355537 >  

December 2019

10th Annual Journal-isms Roundtable Holiday Party at the Newseum Saturday, Dec. 7, as Valerie Jarrett , right, is interviewed by April Ryan,  left. (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

10th annual Journal-isms Roundtable Holiday Party. Valerie Jarrett was interviewed by April Ryan, and Lawrence Jackson, the only African American photographer in the Obama White House, shared some of his photos from that time, collected in his new book, “Yes, We Did.” The party took place in the Newseum, with its stunning view of the U.S. Capitol, for the last time. The Newseum is moving to points unknown. Narrative: <  http://bit.ly/3cMAmKy > (part  1)  and < http://bit.ly/3cMAmKy >  (part 2). Janice Temple’s videos:
https://www.periscope.tv/JaniceTemple/1RDxlNqzwODGL >, with breakouts of April Ryan’s interview of Valerie Jarrett at
https://youtu.be/7ydacenAhjg >,<https://youtu.be/mrA_L0GnbrA> (part 2) and < https://youtu.be/ZMiFwgdPoW4 > (Part 3).  

November 2019

Four people from savejournalism.org discussed how Facebook, Google and other Big Tech companies are taking away journalism jobs. From left: Nick Charles, Laura Bassett and John Stanton, and Politico reporter Cristiano Lima. (Credit: Bonita Bing/ Tolbert & Bing Studios)

Four people from savejournalism.org discussed how Facebook, Google and other Big Tech companies are taking away journalism jobs. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/33fQsFz > Video: https://www.periscope.tv/JaniceTemple/1BdxYeWLeLBxX and https://www.periscope.tv/JaniceTemple/1vOxwaOQLQEGB .

October 2019

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, took questions on a wide variety of topics, and Sarah J. Glover, immediate past president of the National Association of Black Journalists, made a surprise presentation to Richard Prince. Narrative and photos: < http://bit.ly/2B8Uoww >Video at < https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mrGmrlAqdqJy >, the Our Voices Periscope Channel, and https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-political-power-naccp-president-derrick-johnson-temple on LinkedIn.

August 2019

Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden, author of “African Americas & Africa,” second from left, and our own journalists Maureen Bunyan and Kenneth Walker. (Credit: Bonita Bing/ Tolbert & Bing Studios)

Relations between Africans and the African diaspora in the United States and Caribbean amid commemorations of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in the British Virginia colony. Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden, author of “African Americans & Africa,”  and our own journalists Maureen Bunyan and Kenneth Walker were our panelists. Film maker Zadi Zokou took questions from us via Skype. Narrative and photos: < http://bit.ly/2koeq19 > (part 1)  and < http://bit.ly/2lvPZz0 > (part 2). Video by Shevry Lassiter on Facebook Live:  < http://bit.ly/2lyyNZC >  .

  June 2019

From right: Robert A. “Tony” Dixon, president, Washington Metropolitan Chapter, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives; Ron Harris, journalist and co-author with Matthew Horace of “The Black and the Blue.”; Michael Perloff of the ACLU-D.C., co-author of the report “Racial Disparities in D.C. Policing: Descriptive Evidence from 2013–2017”;  and Howard Ross, partner, Udarta Consulting, expert on unconscious bias. (Credit: Bonita Bing/ Tolbert & Bing Studios)

“Why are African Americans disproportionately arrested in D.C. and elsewhere, and does unconscious bias have anything to do with it?” Photos and narrative < http://bit.ly/2x9LEnB > with Robert A. “Tony” Dixon, president, Washington Metropolitan Chapter, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives; Michael Perloff of the ACLU-D.C., co-author of the report “Racial Disparities in D.C. Policing: Descriptive Evidence from 2013–2017”; Howard Ross, partner, Udarta Consulting, expert on unconscious bias; Ron Harris, journalist and co-author with Matthew Horace of “The Black and the Blue.”  

April 2019

Panelists include Laura Barron-Lopez and Nolan Mc Caskill, Politico reporters; Karen Finney, CNN commentator and former Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams campaign aide; Albert Morales, senior political director at Latino Decisions and Sudeep Reddy, Politico managing editor. (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Though the 2020 presidential election is 18 months away, we discussed racism, sexism and the proper use of such terms as “voter suppression” and “chain migration” in the coverage. Panelists were Laura Barron-Lopez and Nolan Mc Caskill, Politico reporters; Karen Finney, CNN commentator and former Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams campaign aide; Albert Morales, senior political director at Latino Decisions and Sudeep Reddy, Politico managing editor. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2JzXgro > Video: < http://bit.ly/2DWXTYI >  

March 2019

Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., chair, Congressional Black Caucus, said the Caucus wants to do an end run around the media and is planning group trips around the country to meet with its publics, and wants closer ties with black journalists.  (Credit: Don Baker Photography)

Brunch with Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., new chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Narrative, Part One: < http://bit.ly/2T7iD4w > Part Two: < http://bit.ly/2TK76N7> Video: < https://bit.ly/2VZpvTl >. Column: < https://tinyurl.com/3pnh2rh5 >

February 2019

Simba Sana says, “”That’s the thing about the media, is that you don’t really get a feel for — you don’t get the stories that let you meet people as they really, really are. You hear these caricatures and you judge them just on that.” ( (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Simba Sana, the guest at our February roundtable, grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., and is familiar with others like that. He’s written a memoir, “Never Stop.” He also founded Karibu Books, which became the largest black bookstore in the country. Simba was asked to compare those parts of town with the images of them presented in the news media. Narrative: <http://bit.ly/2Pvcb8Q > Video: < http://bit.ly/2GqGpa5 >  

January 2019

As we discussed immigration and border issues, a common theme was that the topic is wider and more nuanced than the coverage we consume. The speakers suggested potential stories. At microphone is Kimberly Atkins, senior Washington correspondent at WBUR-FM in Boston.(Credit:  Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

 

 
 

More: 2019: https://www.journal-isms.com/2019/12/journal-isms-roundtable-2019

2018: https://www.journal-isms.com/2018/05/journal-isms-roundtable-2018/
2017: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15468&preview=true
2016: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15471&preview=true
2015: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15492&preview=true
2014: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15478&preview=true
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