The Journal-isms™ Roundtable is a dinner group of more than 50 current and former journalists, authors and editors that meets every month, usually on a Tuesday, and occasionally at Sunday brunch.
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, educational and sometimes provocative conversations over good food and drink.
Here’s a list of the speakers and events over the past years:
December 2018: 9th Annual Journal-isms Roundtable Holiday Party
At the Newseum, Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy interviews Dorothy Butler Gilliam, who previewed her memoir, “Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America.” Betty Anne Williams speaks with Democratic Party activists Yolanda Caraway and Minyon Moore, two of the four co-authors of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics.” Narrative:< http://bit.ly/2UmHDa4 > Watch all four videos consecutively: < http://bit.ly/2SuClHC > (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)
November 2018
Maribel Perez Wadsworth, publisher of USA Today, second from left, and Nicole Carroll, its editor-in-chief, left. Narrative at: < http://bit.ly/2PzpYx3 > Video: < https://youtu.be/s2awOGalSmQ > (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)
October 2018
Sonya Ross, race and ethnicity editor at the Associated Press, on how the AP covers those subjects.
Also, Angela Ford, executive director at the Chicago- based Obsidian Collection Archives, which is digitizing images from the black press; Maxie C. Jackson III, new executive director of the Pacifica Foundation; and Meghan Pearson, new executive director of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Photo (c) by Bonita Bing/ Tolbert & Bing Studios. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2Da8eBN > Video: < https://youtu.be/Yo2nmb5j6dk >
September 2018
Discussing upcoming midterm elections, including voter suppression, voter turnout and the need to get the coverage right, from African American, Latino and Asian American perspectives. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2yd90ZX >. Video: < http://bit.ly/2yd90ZX > (Photos by George Dalton Tolbert IV). From left, Terry Ao Minnis, director of census and voting programs for Asian Americans Advancing Justice; Noni Ghani, U.S. communications officer for Reporters Without Borders; moderator Richard Prince. Also present: Hugo Balta, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
August 2018
Discussing President Trump’s demonization of the news media and how to counter it. From left, Maria Pena, Washington correspondent for La Opinion/ ImpreMedia; Dan Shelley, executive director, Radio Television Digital News Association and Radio Television Digital News Foundation; Courtney C. Radsch, Ph.D., advocacy director, Committee to Protect Journalists; Kenneth Jost, Supreme Court reporter and blogger and board member of the D.C. professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists; and Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of Columbia Journalism Review. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2PuqcBL >. (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)
July 2018
Saying farewell to the Washington Post’s Patricia Gaston, center, as she leaves to become Lacy C. Haynes Professor at the University of Kansas; honoring John C. Watson of American University, chosen for the Ida B. Wells award of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Medill School; hearing Eugene Meyer read from and take questions about his new “Five for Freedom: African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army,” and hearing from journalist Ron Harris and retired police officer Matthew Horace, co-authors of “The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America’s Law Enforcement.” http://bit.ly/2nBbyMl
Photos (c) George Dalton Tolbert IV. Video by Shevry Lassiter at < http://bit.ly/2MmbiPo >. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2OA9uzO >.
June 2018
Cheryl W. Thompson, teacher of investigative reporting at George Washington University, who writes investigative stories at the Washington Post, just elected board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors. (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks) Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2Ks4boe >
May 2018
Georgetown University and slavery, with attorneys Georgia Goslee, third from left, and Jeanett P. Henry, who represent the group of descendants known as the GU272 – Isaac Hawkins Legacy. Also, Adam Goodheart, left, director of Washington College’s C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and author of “1861: The Civil War Awakening”; and Nickolaus Mack, student journalist at American University who wrote an op-ed piece about that school’s connections to slavery. Narrative: < http://bit.ly/2kaaGga > (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)
April 2018
Derrick Johnson, president and CEO, NAACP, and his team of issue experts; Marya Annette McQuirter, PhD, curator of the dc1968 project < http://bit.ly/2GXn8JP >. “It was an incredible event. so much brilliance and power and love in one space,” Marya McQuirter wrote us afterward.
March 2018
“Fifty Years Later: The Kerner Report,” a panel discussion, took place at the Newseum, co-sponsored by Journal-isms, the Newseum Institute’s Chips Quinn Scholars Program for Diversity in Journalism and the Journal-isms Roundtable. It was livestreamed and can be viewed here. Left to right: Gene Policinski, president and COO of the Newseum Institute; Francisco Vara-Orta of Education Week; Tracy Jan of the Washington Post; Thomas Hrack, author of “The Riot Report and the News,” Lynne Adrine of the D.C. graduate program of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University; and Richard Prince of “Journal-isms.” (Credit: Cathy Fitzpatrick)
(Second March event)
Jesse Holland, the Associated Press reporter who has written the companion novel to Marvel’s “Black Panther” movie; Cristal Williams Chancellor and Kate McCarthy of the Women’s Media Center, which just released “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018.” < http://bit.ly/2I28ktG >
Here are the two Periscope feeds:
http://bit.ly/2HzXHiH (Women’s Media Center and Sherri Williams)
February
Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist, author of “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Breakins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.” They required two postings on Richard Prince’s Facebook page, < http://bit.ly/2FAaHWW > and < http://bit.ly/2FBIRJJ >, accompanied by his narrative of the evening.
January
Joshua Johnson, host of NPR’s “1A” via WAMU-FM, and Sam Sanders. NPR podcaster. Narrative and photos at < http://bit.ly/2Finzgt > ; video of the evening by Janice Temple at < https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBRgPnEjxN >
More:
2020: https://www.journal-isms.com/2020/01/journal-isms-roundtable-2020/
2019: https://www.journal-isms.com/2019/04/journal-isms-roundtable-2019/
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
