El Nuevo Herald video journalist Jose A. Iglesias documents life in the streets of Port-au-Prince, two days after the quake struck Haiti. (Video)
Black, Latino Print Journalists Among Those in Haiti
African American and Latino journalists from the print and Internet media are among those in Haiti. Those looking for them should seek out these bylines and photo credits:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Reporter P?©ralte Paul, who, with photographer Elissa Eubanks, is traveling with CARE, the humanitarian organization, to Haiti. The AJC reported that the group flew to the Dominican Republic on Thursday, then stayed near the border for security reasons.
Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald: Photographer Carl Juste; reporters Frances Robles, Jacqueline Charles, Daniel Shoer and Luis Felipe L??pez, and photojournalist/videographer Jose Iglesias.
New York Times: Reporters Marc Lacey, Simon Romero and Ginger Thompson; photographer Ozier Muhammad.
Washington Post: Theola Labbe-Debose; photographer Nikki Kahn.
Root Editor Joel Dreyfuss Lost 2 Relatives After Quake
"The news has been mixed," Dreyfuss wrote Thursday on his Facebook page. "The only one of my sisters to live in Haiti escaped unharmed with her husband, but their house was completely destroyed. One aunt died when her house collapsed and a cousin who lived with her is missing. Many friends have lost multiple family members, so I . . . feel fortunate despite the sadness."
He told Journal-isms on Friday that, "my cousin also died."
NPR Wins DuPont Award for Race Project
“The York Project — Race and the ’08 Vote,” a series of candid conversations on race and politics broadcast on National Public Radio during the 2008 election, has won a Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism, Columbia University announced on Thursday.
The series of discussions in the central Pennsylvania town was moderated by NPR hosts Michele Norris of "All Things Considered" and Steve Inskeep of "Morning Edition."
"Norris and Inskeep spent more than 15 hours with the group over three meetings in September, October and immediately following the election in November, addressing voting preferences and the role of race in public life, as well as voters’ own experiences with race. What resulted were conversations remarkable for their candor and, at times, for illustrating enduring prejudices and misconceptions," NPR said.
"To accompany the series, NPR.org produced an interactive multimedia feature profiling the York residents who participated in the conversations."
"For coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, CBS News and Katie Couric won for her skillful interviews with former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin," a Columbia news release said.
"Other winners include an eye-opening documentary from American RadioWorks about the legacy of U.S. detainee abuse in Iraq, an HBO documentary about the push to recruit new soldiers in the U.S. Army, and KHOU-TV Houston’s extensive reporting on widespread fraud and discrimination against women in the Texas National Guard. International reporting to be honored includes a report from FRONTLINE/World about Pakistan’s youth; PBS’ POV documentary about a judge investigating human rights abuses in Chile; and a multimedia presentation about children born of rape in Rwanda, produced by MediaStorm, the first duPont Web winner.
"Gwen Ifill, the moderator and managing editor of PBS’ "Washington Week," will host the awards ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 21." Norris has described Ifill as "my closest sisterfriend" and godmother to her firstborn. She took leave from NPR last summer to complete a book about the project.
Short Takes
- "A judge not only threw the book at disgraced political TV newsman Dominic Carter on Thursday, he gave him a magazine, too," Matthew Lysiak¬†and Katie Nelson reported Thursday in the New York Daily News. "The former New York 1 star was called ‘the classic case of a domestic abuser’ by a judge who sentenced him to 30 days in jail ‚Äî and handed him a magazine article about actor Matt Damon’s humility. "Carter, convicted of attempting to assault his wife, pulled on an orange jumpsuit in a Rockland County jail after Ramapo Town Justice Arnold Etelson’s blistering sentencing. Etelson also barred Carter from seeing his wife, Marilyn Carter, for two years unless a psychiatrist can prove interaction would be safe."
- Vivian Schiller, CEO of National Public Radio, defended former New York Times colleague Jonathan Landman from characterizations in a new memoir from the late Gerald M. Boyd in which "Boyd accuses the current culture editor, Jon Landman, ‘of being a bully-smug, aggressive, a master of office politics ‚Äî and one of the primary enemies that celebrated his ouster. According to Boyd, Mr. Landman was a man of no ‘decency and integrity,’" in the words of John Koblin, who wrote about the book Tuesday for the New York Observer. Boyd, the first and only black managing editor of the New York Times, resigned after the 2003 Jayson Blair scandal. Schiller wrote in a letter sent to Jim Romenesko¬† on the Poynter Instiute Web site, "Since Jon Landman is far too classy a guy to defend himself against a posthumously published attack, I feel compelled to do it for him. While I cannot speak to Landman’s role in the Jayson Blair affairs since I was not working closely with the newsroom at the time, I did subsequently work along side Jon for several years. As such, I offer this revision to Boyd’s characterization: there is no man of GREATER decent and integrity than Jon Landman. I saw that demonstrated time and time again ‚Äî as a person and a professional ‚Äî and it‚Äôs on display again in his response to this publication. Schiller was a Times vice president before joining NPR in 2008.
- Janice C. Simpson, a former assistant managing editor of Time magazine, has been named contributing entertainment editor of W magazine,a Cond?© Nast publication. A spokeswoman for W said, "Jan will be contributing to entertainment coverage of the magazine." At Time, Simpson had also been senior editor of the magazine‚Äôs Arts & Media section. She has worked at such publications as the Wall Street Journal, Essence, and Woman‚Äôs Day writing breaking news stories and feature articles.
- The Institute for Justice and Journalism is inviting journalists to apply for its 2010 fellowship program, “Immigration in the Heartland.” Selected Fellows participate in a week-long conference in Oklahoma and Texas, starting April 10, focusing on immigration issues in the nation’s non-border regions. IJJ will cover all expenses. Application deadline: Tuesday, Feb. 9. For details, guidelines and application, go to http://justnews.org/news/100105ImmigrationReporting.html
- A profile of Ron Thomas and Morehouse College‚Äôs Journalism and Sports Program was to be featured this week during ESPN‚Äôs January college basketball coverage. "As a tribute to February’s Black History Month, the sports network will feature people at colleges and universities who do work benefiting the African American community. Thomas, who has been the program‚Äôs director since its inception in 2007, and 12 others will each be profiled in 30-second vignettes that run during commercial breaks of college basketball games on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN-U," Morehouse said in a news release.
