This past Columbus day the NYABJ Firsttake students went on a field trip to the WNYC radio station headquarters! For some of us this trip was a dream come true and for others this was a huge eye opener. We learned that WNYC is a non profit organization that basically landed on there feet after [...]
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Speakers Corner: ESPN’s Roxanne Jones
As vice president of ESPN Magazine, an author of a new book set for release next year and a top executive at ESPN station, Roxanne Jones may seem to have a charmed career. “As an African American female, I have felt that people looked at me thinking; What is she doing here? Even at ESPN,” [...]
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CBS 2 News Anchor Russ Mitchell Visits Aspiring Journalists
On November 3rd, CBS news anchor and correspondent Russ Mitchell was invited to speak to the young teenagers of the New York Association of Black Journalists. Anchor of both the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News and The Early Show, Russ Mitchell grew up in St. Louis, Missouri to a loving and supportive family. [...]
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Diane Cardwell Speaks with Aspiring Youth
Graduate of the renowned Harvard University, Diane Cardwell graced her presence with the young, aspiring journalists of NYAJB on Saturday, October 20 th. Currently the City Hall Borough Chief of the prestigious New York Times, she discussed her trials and tribulations of her journalism career. Growing up in a struggling middle class family residing on [...]
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Life in the shoes of a journalist
The life of a journalist is very busy, but also very fascinating. Everyday people read the newspaper or their favorite magazines and never fully realize that there’s a person behind all the words and phrases on the printed page. Veteran journalist Ikimulisa Livingston is one those people. As a reporter at the “New York Post,” [...]
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