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‘Tremendous Interest’; Valued at $1.2 Million+
Jeffries Drops Biggie Into Impeachment Trial
Keith Woods Named NPR Chief Diversity Officer
Year-Long Collaboration to Focus on Latino Vote
Pressley Chooses The Root to Reveal Hair Loss
CNN’s Abby Phillip Criticized After Debate
Site Lists Latino Columnists We Should Watch
Lehrer Left Behind a Set of Principles
Jaramogi, Nance, Pruitt, Rogers Among Passings
Short Takes
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‘Tremendous Interest’; Valued at $1.2 Million+
“Last year, Johnson Publishing, the parent company behind Ebony and Jet magazines, filed for liquidation, ending the historic enterprise’s 77-year run. By July, a quartet of foundations teamed up at the 11th hour to purchase the company’s historic archives of images, video, and audio recordings,” Taylor Dafoe reported Jan. 3 for artnet News.
“But the fate of the artwork that adorned the company’s famous headquarters in downtown Chicago — including pieces by Carrie Mae Weems, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kenneth Victor Young — remained less certain.
“Now, those works are set to be sold. On January 30, Swann Galleries in New York will host a sale dedicated to the painting, sculptures, etchings, and other objects by 75 African American artists featured in Johnson’s offices. A free-and-public exhibition held five days prior to the sale will mark the first time these works will have been shown outside of the company. . . .”
Alexandra Nelson, communications director for the Swann Auction Galleries, told Journal-isms Thursday there is “tremendous interest” in the auction. The gallery generally has 70 people in the room bidding for African American art, and more will be bidding online.
Dafoe also wrote, “On the walls hung a number of notable works that, later this month, will make their way to New York for the auction: an installation of seven framed photographs with etched glass by Carrie Mae Weems (estimated to go for $100,000 to $150,000 at Swann’s sale); a crepuscular canvas from 1912 by Henry Ossawa Tanner ($150,000 to $250,000); bronze busts by Richmond Barthé and Elizabeth Catlett (both estimated at $50,000 to $75,000); and many others. . . .”
Robert Channick wrote Jan. 2 in the Chicago Tribune:
“The collection, which includes works by both famous and lesser-known African American artists, is valued at upwards of $1.2 million. The auction proceeds will be used to pay back former CEO Desiree Rogers for $2.7 million in loans she made to Johnson Publishing and other secured claims against the company, pending approval next week from a Chicago federal bankruptcy judge.
“ ‘Desiree will have the first cut at the art auction proceeds,’ said Neville Reid, a Chicago bankruptcy attorney representing the trustee. . . .”
Judge Jack B. Schmetterer agreed on Jan. 8, saying Rogers and Linda Johnson Rice, daughter of company founders John H. and Eunice Johnson, are entitled to their claims if there are no challenges by Feb. 14.
Jeffries Drops Biggie Into Impeachment Trial
“On Tuesday night, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) dropped a lyrical bomb on the Senate floor during President Trump’s impeachment trial,” Marlow Stern wrote Wednesday, updated Thursday for the Daily Beast.
“In response to a query by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, Jeffries, who hails from Brooklyn, New York, responded by shouting-out Brooklyn’s finest: ‘We are here, sir, to follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the Constitution, and present the truth to the American people. That is why we are here, Mr. Sekulow, and if you don’t know, now you know.’ (The line comes from the Notorious B.I.G. classic ‘Juicy.’)
“ ‘Ohhhh! And if you don’t know, now you know!’ exclaimed The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah on Wednesday night. ‘That’s right! Congressman Hakeem Jeffries just quoted Biggie on the floor of Congress. The only thing I wish is that he’d used the entire line. That would have been amazing. He’s like, ‘If you don’t know, now you know, n*ggaaaaa!’ because if that happened, black people would have been out celebrating in the streets, it would have been MLK Day Part II. ‘” . . .”
- Tim Giago, indianz.com: How many clowns can one fit into the Senate car?
- Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune: Democrats at Trump’s impeachment trial should listen to the chief justice. No more ‘pettifogging.’
- Juan Williams, the Hill: Counting the votes to remove Trump
Keith Woods Named NPR Chief Diversity Officer
Keith Woods, NPR’s vice president of newsroom training and diversity, has been promoted to the newly created position of position of chief diversity officer, NPR announced Thursday.
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“I want NPR to reflect diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As an organization we should be leaders in providing news and cultural programming that speaks to our richly diverse country and connects with an audience that looks and sounds like America – all while creating a welcoming and supportive workplace for all,” NPR CEO John Lansing said in the announcement, echoing sentiments of his recent predecessors.
Lansing said he was promoting Woods “To elevate and expand the role of diversity in our thinking and in our work,” and said Woods would be “a thought partner to me and the rest of the executive team, helping us set goals and craft a diversity plan that is responsive to – and accountable to – our staff and the public we serve.”
Woods will report directly to the CEO and continue his leadership and advising roles in key areas. His team will grow to support that work, the announcement said.
Woods came to NPR in 2010 “to lead the organization’s diversity strategy and has worked with the newsroom on a multi-year effort to increase the diversity of sources. He has trained the staffs of more than 30 public media stations from Canton, New York, to Juneau, Alaska. Before joining NPR, Woods was Dean of Faculty of The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida. . . .”
Year-Long Collaboration to Focus on Latino Vote
“The World,” the daily global news and analysis program from PRX, WGBH, and the BBC, Tuesday announced “Every 30 Seconds,” a collaborative public media reporting project tracing the young Latino electorate ahead of the 2020 national election.
Funded by a $300,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ‘Every 30 Seconds’ will report on the “issues, influences, concerns, and challenges driving decision-making and turnout among young Latino voters across the United States,” the announcement continued.
“According to a recent count, approximately every 30 seconds, a Latino citizen in the United States reaches voting age (18). Further, 32 million Latinos are projected to be eligible to vote in 2020, up from 2016 and now one of the largest shares of nonwhite voters. Through deep engagement within communities and among Latino voters, ‘Every 30 Seconds’ will delve into the complexities of demographics, language, law, and inequities within political systems.
“This year-long project will launch in February with regular broadcasts on ‘The World’ accompanied by digital components. From its newsroom in Boston, ‘The World’ and Senior Editor Daisy Contreras will lead production of stories for national broadcast in partnership with public radio stations across the country. Digital Editor Tania Karas will lead production of digital stories and interactives. . . .”
Contributing stations include KERA in Dallas; KJZZ in Phoenix; PBS in San Diego, Calif.; KUOW in Seattle; WABE in Atlanta; WLRN in Miami and WUNC in Chapel Hill, N.C.
- Brittany Shepherd, Yahoo News: Bloomberg pledges $70 billion to bolster black America in new plan
Pressley Chooses The Root to Reveal Hair Loss
Last week, many women “who suffer from the autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss watched U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s emotional video on the Root about the condition that’s left her bald,” Elizabeth Wellington wrote Tuesday for the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Some cried, some nodded in understanding. And all of them felt relieved. Here was someone giving a public voice to an often-private suffering.
“Pressley, a 45-year-old Democrat from Massachusetts, is known in fashion and political circles for her elegant Senegalese twists, extensions that matched the texture of her own hair.
“Those long twists, Pressley says in the seven-minute video, weren’t just a part of her personal identity. They helped define her political brand. Not to mention, she always heard from girls she inspired to be proud of the hair God gave them. That says a lot in a world that puts a premium on little black girls having long, straight hair. But now, with alopecia, there wasn’t any hair in which to even attach the two-strand-twist extensions anymore.
“So, last Thursday, wearing a stunning black-and-gold blouse, Pressley informed us of her new reality as a bald woman.”
Danielle Belton, editor of the Root, explained to Journal-isms Wednesday by email, “We were approached by Pressley’s people about her doing a reveal with The Root about her losing her hair to alopecia.
“This was thanks to my intrepid staff, who has worked with Pressley on various stories on The Root over the past year, in particular, staff writer Anne Branigin, who wrote about Pressley’s iconic Senegalese twists, and my video team, including producer Jessica Moulite (who also detailed her own struggle with hair loss in a follow-up story) and my senior video producer Ashley Velez.
“We were honored that Pressley [entrusted] The Root with this very sensitive and important story. It was an honor to bring this video to fruition of her telling her own story, in her own words for our video series ‘A Word.’ It was a powerful and affirming experience for all.”
CNN’s Abby Phillip Criticized After Debate
“It wasn’t long, however, before attention turned to the ‘sizzling feud’ (CNN’s words) that dominated coverage in the run-up to the debate: the claim — reported by CNN, then made by [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren herself — that [Sen. Bernie] Sanders privately told Warren that a woman can’t win the White House in 2020,” Jon Allsop reported for Columbia Journalism Review.
Joe Concha added for the Hill, “Critics of the exchange, including some members of the media, argued that it was unfair for Phillip to frame the question to Warren that presented as fact that Sanders had said a woman couldn’t win the White House. The criticism came from media commentators such as NPR’s David Folfenflik and National Review’s Rich Lowry.”
- John Kass, Chicago Tribune: CNN’s shameful treatment of Bernie Sanders (Jan. 16)
- Jim Naureckas and Julie Hollar, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting: The Big Loser in the Iowa Debate? CNN’s Reputation (Jan. 15)
- Molly Roberts, Washington Post: No one has to be the liar (Jan. 16)
- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone: CNN’s Debate Performance Was Villainous and Shameful (Jan. 15)
Site Lists Latino Columnists We Should Watch
While the attention of the rest of us was elsewhere, the website remezcla.com has been compiling lists of Latino journalists we should be watching.
“Journalism is overwhelmingly white,” Yara Simón wrote for the site seven months ago. “As a matter of fact, a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis found that 77 percent of newsroom employees – those working in newspapers, broadcasting, and internet publishing – were non-Hispanic whites.
“This makes newsroom employees less diverse than other parts of the US workforce, which means that we don’t always have representation in media or ownership of our stories. In an industry that still hasn’t figured out how to embrace people of color, it’s then not surprising that it’s difficult to find enough Latinos [as] columnists.
“But they definitely do exist, and they’re writing about everything from niche subjects to detailed accounts of our histories, all the while weighing in on the topics that dominate national headlines. Below, check out eight Latino columnists that should be on your radar. . . . “
John Paul Brammer, who answers “life’s queerest questions”
Nubia Willman, immigration lawyer
Gary Suarez, who writes about Latin trap music
Concepción de León, culture writer, contributing to El Espace in the New York Times
Yesika Salgado, columnist on sex and relationships
Esther J. Cepeda, nationally syndicated Chicago-based columnist.
Nancy Flores, Latino culture in Austin, Texas
Ilyanna Maisonet, San Francisco food columnist
- Christina Noriega, remezcla.com: 10 Latino Photographers Documenting Underrepresented Communities (Aug 30, 2018)
- Alejandra Oliva, remezcla.com: 15 Books by Latino & Latin American Authors to Add to Your 2020 Reading List
- Yara Simón, remezcla.com: 6 Central American Journalists You Need to Be Following for Nuanced Immigration Coverage (seven months ago)
Lehrer Left Behind a Set of Principles
Lehrer left behind a statement of his journalistic principles, and he was shown reading them in the on-air tributes:
“Do nothing I cannot defend.
“Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.
“Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.
“Assume the viewer is as smart and caring and good a person as I am.
“Assume the same about all people on whom I report.
“Assume personal lives are a private matter until a legitimate turn in the story absolutely mandates otherwise.
“Carefully separate opinion and analysis from straight news stories and clearly label everything.
“Do not use anonymous sources or blind quotes except on rare and monumental occasions. No one should be allowed to attack another anonymously.
“I am not in the entertainment business.”
Jaramogi, Nance, Pruitt, Rogers Among Passings
- “Heshimu Jaramogi (pictured below), 67, a veteran journalist who worked in radio, published the Neighborhood Leader newspaper, and once served as president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, died of cancer Tuesday, Jan. 14, at his home in Philadelphia,” Valerie Russ reported Jan. 17 for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Short Takes
- “In yet another sign that voters live in very different media bubbles,” a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll found that Democrats cited voter suppression as the greatest threat to the 2020 election, Brett Neely reported Tuesday for NPR. “Voter fraud topped the list for Republicans. Moreover, women and nonwhite respondents are considerably more likely than men and white voters to say that their own vote won’t be counted. . . .”
- “. . . As NPR’s Brett Neely notes, it is probably not surprising that 54% of Republicans said stopping the spread of disinformation is mainly the media’s responsibility, given President Donald Trump’s repeated claim that the media traffics in ‘fake news,’ ” Cristina Tardáguila, Daniel Funke and Susan Benkelman reported Thursday for the Poynter Institute. “In contrast, 29% of Democrats put the main onus on the media. . . .”
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- My research “has found that some protest movements have more trouble than others in getting coverage that treats them and their issues seriously,” Danielle K. Kilgo, assistant professor at Indiana University, wrote Jan. 16 for the Conversation. “In a recent study, my co-author Summer Harlow and I looked at local and metropolitan newspaper coverage of protests. We found that narratives about the women’s march and anti-Trump protests gave voice to protesters and significantly explored their grievances. On the other end of the spectrum, protests about anti-black racism and indigenous people’s rights received the least legitimizing coverage. . . .”
- Alden Global Capital recently bought a 32% stake in Tribune Publishing. Alden is “a hedge fund described by one Washington Post writer as ‘one of the most ruthless of the corporate strip-miners seemingly intent on destroying local journalism,’ Scott Maxwell wrote Jan. 17 for the Orlando Sentinel, a Tribune property. Maxwell was explaining why he is not accepting buyout offers. He quoted others at the Sentinel, such as Shannon Green, columnist and editorial board member, who “has seen her work change lives, like the time she wrote about a smart, young, poor man who couldn’t afford college — and a reader responded by paying his tuition. ‘That’s why some of us have stayed in a business that doesn’t always love us back,’ she said. . . .”
- “New Jersey will be releasing the remainder of the $235 million in spending Gov. Phil Murphy froze when he signed the state budget in June 2019. This includes the first $1 million of the $2 million earmarked for the Civic Information Consortium, a first-of-its-kind initiative to strengthen local-news coverage and boost civic engagement across the state,” the advocacy group Free Press reported Jan. 16. “This innovative nonprofit, which Free Press Action conceived of and advocated for,. . . will invest in valuable local-news coverage in parts of the state that have become news deserts and will elevate the voices of people of color and others who have been systematically ignored by many media outlets. . . .”
- “On 13th January, Good Morning Britain’s host Piers Morgan invited columnist and author Afua Hirsch to discuss her piece in the New York Times, which cited racism as a major reason for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s decision to spread their time across the UK and North America,” begins a Jan. 15 “open letter” from InfluencHer: “a collective of 100 Black British women from the worlds of Media, Law, Health, Education, Publishing and their supporters.” They also wrote, “Having to engage, articulate, and explain racism again and again to predominantly white hosts, white men, and white guests is draining and exhausting. It is frankly traumatizing and wearing to black people who continuously find themselves having to explain the presence and impact of racism to people who refuse to be educated. . . .”
- Marcos Santana, Telemundo Global Studios president, and Courtney Kemp, showrunner and creator of the Starz series “Power,” were among honorees at the Brandon Tartikoff Awards in Miami, Cynthia Littleton reported for Variety on Wednesday. Santana said his life’s work has been to “elevate the quality of Spanish-language television” and “to give Latinos (TV) produced by Hispanics for Hispanics.” Kemp, who is African American, called on the crowd to work for greater diversity in all levels of the entertainment industry.
- Dean Steve Coll and the Alumni Association of the Columbia Journalism School announced the recipients of the 2020 Alumni Awards, the school announced Jan. 16. “The winners are Michelle Johnson, ’82 M.S., associate professor, Boston University; Donna Ladd, ’01 M.S., editor in chief and owner, The Jackson Free Press (Mississippi); Natasha Lebedeva, ’94 M.S., director, international affairs, NBC News. The J-School is also presenting the First Decade Award, for graduates of the last 10 years, to Alexandra Bell, ’13 M.S., multidisciplinary artist, and Robert Fieseler, ’13 M.S., author of “Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs and Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation.” (W.W. Norton, 2018). . . .”
- “A new PBS documentary is exploring a little-known movement that brought together blacks, Latinos, and poor whites from Appalachia that later resulted in the upending of politics in the American Midwest,” Russell Contreras reported Monday for the Associated Press. ” ‘The First Rainbow Coalition,’ scheduled to begin airing Jan. 27 as part of the Independent Lens series, shows how members of the Black Panther Party organized Puerto Rican radicals and Confederate flag-waving white Southerners to help tackle poverty and discrimination. . . .”
(Credit: Erica Wright, Birmingham Times)
- Kim Mangun, author of “Editor Emory O. Jackson, the Birmingham World, and the Fight for Civil Rights in Alabama, 1940–1975″ delivered the 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at the Birmingham Public Library, Barnett Wright wrote Monday for the Birmingham Times in Alabama.
“In many ways, Jackson was a journalist ahead of his time, Mangun said. The crusading editor kept detailed records of officer involved shootings, she said.
“Today websites like MappingPoliceViolence.org and media organizations including the Washington Post compile data on officer involved shootings much as Jackson did beginning in the early 1940s with the limited resources available to him,” Mangun said. “. . . Jackson wrote extensively about violence in Birmingham during the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s when there were 34 bombings plus seven frightening near misses of black owned homes, businesses and churches. . . . He edited the Birmingham World until September 10, 1975, when he died at the age of 67. . . .”
- The Canadian Association of Black Journalists is hosting a one-day media training session for black junior high and high school students, an inaugural seminar for J-School Noire, on Feb. 25 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Lesli Tathum reported Jan. 17 for the Signal at the University of King’s College. “‘J-School Noire is about giving a voice to black youth and giving them the skills necessary to tell their stories right now,” Brian Daly, the CABJ Atlantic director, said in an interview. “Not in 10 years or when they’re in their 20s, but right now.” After a J-School Noire seminar in Halifax, the CABJ is looking to expand to Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montreal.
- Investigative Reporters and Editors is hosting a Watchdog Workshop on Friday, Feb. 7, in Puerto Rico. “These sessions are designed for reporters, editors, and producers from small, midsize and large publications, TV, radio stations, Web-only news sites and news blogs. Freelancers, students and journalism educators are also encouraged to attend,” the organization says.
- The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced Tuesday it will “launch its Local Legal Initiative this year in Colorado, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee to provide pro bono legal support to local journalists and news outlets throughout the states pursuing enterprise and investigative journalism. The initiative follows a $10 million investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced last year as part of the foundation’s pledge to double its commitment to strengthening local journalism.”
- “Statistics from 2017 show that Hispanics make up 17% of the labor force,” JD Swerzenski, Donald T. Tomaskovic-Devey and Eric Hoyt of the University of Massachusetts Amherst wrote Wednesday for the Conversation. “However, they occupy only 4.3% of executive positions in the U.S. Hispanic representation is roughly equal to that of black executives and somewhat lower than Asian American executives. The gap between labor force and executive representation is wider among Hispanics than any other group. . . .”
- “A powerful exposé of negligence by the largest private contractor of prison health care, and a series examining the plight of indigenous Alaskans living with no police protection are the winners of the nation’s most prestigious award for justice journalism. [PDF] . . . John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim awards for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting have been awarded to Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken of CNN, and Kyle Hopkins of the Anchorage Daily News,” the school announced Jan 17.
- “Pinterest published its sixth annual diversity report today and it’s encouraging on several fronts,” Ellen McGirt reported Jan. 16 for Fortune. “It hit a milestone this year: The company has exceeded all three of its stated goals for hiring women and underrepresented minority employees. . . .”
- In Massachusetts, a “bill by Jack Flanagan, a Brookline Republican, would require news outlets to update all online articles about people in the judicial system if they were acquitted, found not guilty, or had their charges dropped,” Ethan DeWitt reported Jan. 15 for the Concord (N.H.) Monitor.
- The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced Jan. 16 it had selected eight media innovators as the 2020 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellows. They are: Mercy Adhiambo, a features writer at the Standard in Kenya; Nicole Barton, an audience development associate at KQED in San Francisco; Erika Dilday, executive director of the Futuro Media Group; Wendy Lu, an editor and producer for HuffPost; Tomer Ovadia, a software engineer at Google; Amy Silverman, a freelance journalist and advisory board member of the National Center on Disability and Journalism; Elizabeth Toohey, assistant professor of English at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York; and Lewis Raven Wallace, a freelance journalist and co-founder and national program director of Press On, a Southern collective for movement journalism, which focuses on liberation and racial justice issues.
- Natasha Alford, deputy editor of theGrio.com, has been named vice president of digital content for TheGrio digital network platform, Mark K. Miller reported Jan. 16 for TVNewsCheck. “In her new position, Alford will continue to be based at the Entertainment Studios offices in New York.”
- C-SPAN 3, the American History Channel, is airing a talk by historian Michael Searles on “Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, on the Stage, Behind the Badge” on Saturday at 9:05 p.m. ET. “We see images of black cowboys as Professor Searles discusses their experiences from the early 19th century to the present day,” the network says.
- “In a move criticized by press freedom organizations, U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald was charged by the Federal Public Prosecutor (MPF, for its acronym in Portuguese) for alleged involvement with hackers who accessed messages exchanged through the Telegram application by various authorities, such as Minister of Justice Sergio Moro and prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol, who leads the task force for Operation Car Wash, Júlio Lubianco and Marina Estarque reported Tuesday for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “In a video posted on Twitter, Greenwald said that attorney Wellington Divino de Oliveira, who signed the charges, ‘is abusing his position to attack political enemies.’ . . .”
- In Haiti, “many journalists report working in dangerous and even life-threatening conditions.” Chantal Flores reported Jan. 17 for Columbia Journalism Review. “Public perception of journalism has deteriorated; protestors accuse media outlets of supporting the government, and attacks on the press have escalated. Journalists are also harassed by counter-protesters and police from the opposing side. They report physical attacks, death threats, and defamation campaigns on social media. . . .”
- Authorities in Nigeria should conduct a swift and credible investigation into the killing of Maxwell Nashan, a reporter and newscaster with the government-owned Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), and determine whether his journalism was the motive for the attack,” the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. “Farmers found Nashan bound and gagged in Badarisa in the early hours of January 15, about 2 km from the FRCN office and about 3 km from his home. . . .”
- Juan Sánchez Moreno, who was commander of the Attorney General’s Office of the state of Puebla, was convicted on Jan. 15 for the crime of torture against Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho, which occurred in 2005, according to freedom of expression organization Article 19 Mexico,” Silvia Higuera wrote Jan. 17 for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. “Sánchez Moreno must serve five years and three months in prison, and pay a fine of 12,133 Mexican pesos (approximately US $644), the site Infobae reported. ‘This sentence contains a penalty that does not address the seriousness of the acts of torture or the command post occupied by Sánchez Moreno,’ Article 19 wrote via Twitter. . . .”
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