Journal-isms Roundtable, 2014

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Don Baker produced fabulous photos of our 5th annual holiday party. <http://on.fb.me/1zpolBk>. Leonard Pitts Jr., the syndicated Miami Herald columnist, spoke about “Freeman,” his overlooked 2012 novel about the lengths to which newly emancipated slaves went to find the families who were torn from them. (bottom photo); Ruben Castaneda discussed his “S Street Rising,” about his crack addiction while working as a Washington Post reporter. (top photo)

December 2014

November
With Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher and Jefferi Lee, general manager of the Howard University television station, WHUT. < http://bit.ly/28SKi2r >

October

Photojournalist Michel du Cille was animated as he talked about the Ebola crisis in West Africa. Photographer Dudley Brooks listens. Du Cille wrote, “Sometimes, the harshness of a gruesome scene simply cannot be sanitized. How does one give dignity to the image of a woman who has died and is lying on the ground, unattended, uncovered and alone as people walk by or gaze from a distance? But I believe that the world must see the horrible and dehumanizing effects of Ebola. The story must be told; so one moves around with tender care, gingerly, without extreme intrusion. . . . ” (Credit: Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Teri Agins, Wall Street Journal fashion columnist, and Dudley Brooks, who rejoined the Washington Post after a spell as photo director for Johnson Publishing Co. Dudley is photo editor for the Post magazine. He joined Johnson Publishing in 2007 from the Baltimore Sun, where he was assistant managing editor for photography. Michel Ducille, photojournalist at the Washington Post, joined then. He had just been disinvited from participating in workshops at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications because of (unwarranted) fears that he might have contracted the deadly Ebola virus while on assignment in Liberia, though he was past the 21-day waiting period when symptoms appear. Two months later, Michel died < https://wapo.st/2I2gAtK > while on assignment for The Post in Liberia. < http://bit.ly/2IgSj6O >

September

Joe Davidson, Charles E. Cobb Jr. and Paul Delaney, three co-founders of the National Association of Black Journalists. (Credit: Jason Miccolo Johnson)

Charles E. Cobb Jr., journalist, veteran of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and author of “This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.”< http://on.fb.me/1PoiTmq >

August

Jarl Mohn, new president and CEO of NPR, and Katharine Viner, incoming editor of the Guardian U.S. < http://bit.ly/2dNf8y2 >.

July

Miguel Ferrer, multicultural and digital media consultant, formerly at Huffington Post, Fusion and AOL. < http://bit.ly/2ck4qRm >. Miguel wrote on Facebook in 2016, “A lot of good things came my way while living in DC for two years, and one of the most welcome was sharing a bit of time with Richard Prince and the journalists’ roundtable he’s been supporting for some 17 years. Kudos to them!”

June

Ron Nixon, reporter for the New York Times and regular member of our roundtable, just came back from France and Nigeria, reporting on the Boko Haram story. He also discussed his e-book on U. S. supporters of apartheid, which he planned to expand into a full book. < on.fb.me/1lbE2WE >

May

Jelani Cobb, historian and journalist, and Michele Norris, NPR host and special correspondent, and creator of “The Race Card Project.” < http://bit.ly/2jyhaF2 >

April

Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director general of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., and Bill Keller, editor of The Marshall Project, a journalism strartup on criminal justice issues that plans to launch in September. He is also former executive editor of the New York Times. < http://bit.ly/2HYbV03 >

March

We marked Kevin Merida’s first year as Washington Post managing editor and were fortunate enough to be joined by Executive Editor Marty Baron. Both were upbeat about the future of the Post, especially now that it is owned by Jeff Bezos. Marty said that in all his years of leading newsrooms, he’d never been in a position where he didn’t have to worry about cuts. Kevin repeated his belief that this is a great time to be a journalist. (Credit: Jason Miccolo Johnson)

Marty Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post, and Kevin Merida, managing editor, to mark Kevin’s first year on the job. Marty was with us for the first time.< http://bit.ly/2romHCp >

February

Mignon Clyburn, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and its former acting chairman, and Darryl R. Matthews Sr., new interim executive director of the National Association of Black Journalists. < http://bit.ly/2HTkRE0 >.

January

Eleven of us braved temperatures in the teens and watched President Obama begin his State of the Union address. Paul Delaney recounted the back-and-forth among civil rights leaders that he witnessed from a perch at the Atlanta Daily World, not often reported in the mainstream media. < http://bit.ly/2rqoKVZ >.

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