Vanguard, how black women overcame barriers vanguard how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all this book is fascinating. You have to get it. It starts with doctor joneses grandmother, soucie jones, and i must admit i have not finished the book, but it has Amazing Stories of women who really have made a difference. We look forward, dr. Jones, to hearing your story. So let me just tell you a little bit about doctor jones. She was born in Central Harlem and was originally trained as an attorney and was working on social justice issues after being trained at in new york. So at the law school, she became a Public Interest lawyer and spent nearly ten years representing homeless people, people with mental illness, People Living with aids. And in 1994, she was awarded fellowship on the future of the city of new york at Columbia University based on her lawyering work. And there, her career took an interesting turn as she was drawn to the research and writing
Say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda managing editor of theassociated press. Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Church news and dorothy packer, Investigative Reporter for wbbm. In my hometown of chicago and president of the National Association of black journalists. Thank you allfor being here. And over to you. For having me and thank youagain to our panelists, thank you to everybody whos joinedus today. I hope you get a lot out of this conversation. This is important and we have a great group of panelists that will dig right in. So i want to take with kind of an overarchingquestion. Newsrooms have been announcing a lot of great changes over the last few months. New diversity leadership positions, taskforces, theyre creating new projects after years of inequities in our american newsrooms, some of have even characterize it as systemicracism in american newsrooms, has anything really changed . Amanda, id like to startwith you. Th
This. Im the executive director of the National Association of Journalism Institutes and we are very happy to be hosting this event on newsroom protests and it has anything really changed. Thank you to the National Press club members for planning this program in partnership with us and the communicators committee. Its going to be a very interesting and informative conversation. First among our wonderful panelists and then we hope youll join in by sharing your questions using the q a queue. So im going to turn this over to our moderator in a moment, Michael Carter who is usa today managing editor, ethics but first i want to say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda managing editor of the associated press. Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Church news and dorothy packer, Investigative Reporter for wbbm. In my hometown of chicago and president of the National Association of black journalists. Thank you all for being here. And michael o
The discussion focused on how newsrooms are changing how they approach hiring and story coverage as well as advice for young journalists entering the profession. This runs for one hour, 10 minutes. Everybody welcome. We are so happy you are with this. I am julie, the executive director of the National Association of Journalism Institutes and we are very happy to be hosting this event on newsrooms after the summer protests. Anything has really changed. Thank you to the National Press club members for planning this program in partnership with us and the communicators committee. Its going to be a very interesting and informative conversation. First among our wonderful panelists and then we hope youll join in by sharing your questions using the q a queue. So im going to turn this over to our moderator in a moment, Michael Carter who is usa today managing editor of standards, ethics and inclusion. But first i want to say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda manag
Police brutality and racial injustice. The discussion focused on how newsrooms are changing how they approachstory coverage. Welcome. So happy to know that youre with us. Im the executive director of the National Association of Journalism Institutes and we are really happy to be hosting this event on newsroom protests and it has anything really changed. Thank you to the National Press club members for planning this program in partnership with us and the communicatorscommittee. Its going to be an interesting and informative conversation. First among our wonderful panelists and then we hope youll join in by sharing your questions using the monday. So im going to turn this over to our moderator ina moment , Michael Carter who is usa today managing editor, ethics but first i want to say again welcome and thank you to our panel and amanda barrett, fda managing editor of theassociated press. Sanchez, editor and Senior Vice President at the Minneapolis Church news and dorothy packer, Investig