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Byron Allen signs April Ryan as White House Correspondent for TheGrio.TV | TheGrio

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020African American Media

Ryan has served as a White House correspondent for the last 24 years, covering four U.S. presidents throughout her career — Gerren Keith Gaynor, TheGrio Veteran journalist April Ryan has signed with Byron Allen‘s Allen Media Group to serve as White House Correspondent and Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief for the soon-to-be-launched 24/7 broadcast television network TheGrio.TV, the company announced […]

MSNBC Names Rashida Jones as President, Succeeding Phil Griffin | The New York Times

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020African American Media

Ms. Jones, currently a senior vice president at the network, will become the highest-ranking Black woman in the TV news industry. — Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin, The New York Times MSNBC was already preparing for one momentous presidential transition next year. Now the 24-hour cable channel and home to liberal stars like Rachel Maddow […]

MSNBC Taps Tiffany Cross, Jonathan Capehart as Weekend Anchors | The Root

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020African American Media

— Michael Harriot, The Root There exists a misplaced assumption that the recent focus on inclusion is a quasi-benevolent gift to Black people. But profit-driven companies are not supposed to care about diversity for diversity’s sake. Even the most progressive individuals believe that “diversity hires” help Black employees, when, in reality, it is white people who […]

The Black public affairs show that revolutionised television Black Journal | Huck

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020African American Media

At the height of the Black Power movement, National Educational Television launched Black Journal. A groundbreaking show that allowed Black Americans to tell their own stories and to wrestle back control from the white-owned networks who thought they knew better. By Miss Rosen In 1966, Stokely Carmichael’s call for Black Power marked a collective shift […]

Philadelphia Inquirer’s Top Editor Resigns After ‘Buildings Matter, Too’ Headline | HuffPost

June 7, 2020June 9, 2020African American Media, Black Media

The headline, a riff on Black Lives Matter, suggested an equivalence between the destruction of buildings and the deaths of Black people. The top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer has resigned amid backlash over the headline “Buildings Matter, Too” — a riff on “Black Lives Matter” — which was published in the paper last week […]

Black News Channel’s Co-Founder and CEO Steps Down Two Months After Launch | Black Enterprise

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020African American Media, African American News

Black News Channel, which just launched nationwide two months ago, just lost its CEO and co-founder, Bob Brillante, according to an announcement by Black News Channel. Bob Brillante, a BNC co-founder, has stepped down from his position as CEO to pursue other opportunities. Chairman and co-founder, J.C. Watts, Jr. will assume the position of interim CEO until a […]

Miami Times publisher Garth Reeves Sr., ‘conscience of the black community,’ dies at 100 | Miami Herald

December 3, 2019December 3, 2019African American Media, Black Media

Garth C. Reeves Sr., publisher emeritus of The Miami Times and a voice for the aspirations of African Americans in Miami for most of the past century, died on Monday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] He had turned 100 on Feb. 12. The Miami Times was the only job publisher emeritus Garth C. Reeves Sr. ever had, aside […]

War Reporters: Thomas Morris Chester | Military History Matters

November 28, 2019May 25, 2020African American Media, Black Media ...

Thomas Morris Chester is a name little-known in most households. But Chester was a remarkable pioneer. The son of abolitionists George and Jane Marie Chester, he fought passionately – in the civil rights movement and in the Civil War – against slavery, and later became the first African American war correspondent to write for a […]