Updates from October, 2008

  • Speakers Corner: ESPN's Roxanne Jones

    Kimberly Banjoko 11:28 am on October 4, 2008 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    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,”  Jones said, speaking at NYABJ’s High School Journalism Workshop at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus.

    But, luck alone didn’t propel Jones’ professional career as a journalist, especially considering where she came from, where she’s been and where she’s headed.

    Jones was raised by a single mother and grew up poor with her two siblings in Philadelphia. 

    “The only people who truly believed in me were a few librarians and my mother,” she said, adding that everyone else asked “Girl, what (you) doing?” (More …)

     
  • CBS 2 News Anchor Russ Mitchell Visits Aspiring Journalists

    Nikki Newton 8:26 pm on November 10, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: CBS, Russ Mitchell

    CBS.com Russ MitchellOn 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. Interested in politics and writing, he decided to pursue (More …)

     
  • Diane Cardwell Speaks with Aspiring Youth

    Nikki Newton 12:42 pm on October 27, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply

    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 the Upper West Side, she was destined to fulfill her father’s dream of becoming a doctor. Nevertheless, she decided (More …)

     
  • Life in the shoes of a journalist

    Jastina E. Carter 8:08 pm on October 10, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: journalism,

    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,” she helps tells the stories of the city.  She spoke with the NYABJ journalism workshop on Sept. 6 about her experiences. (More …)

     
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