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February 2004 KCABJ Newsletter
New Officers Elected
KCABJ voted in January elected new officers for 2004. Members elected
Tracy Allen, a reporter for The Call of Kansas City, as president. She replaces
Anita K. Parran, head of public relations for the AARP in Missouri. Anita
did not seek a second term.
Tanyanika Samuels, a reporter for The Kansas
City Star, was re-elected as vice president/print. April Jackson, producer
for KSHB-TV Channel 41, was elected vice president/broadcast. Joi Preciphs
had held that office, but she is seeking her master's degree at the
University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. Eyobong Ita, a
reporter for The Star, was elected secretary. He ran against
Eric L. Wesson, a reporter and columnist at The Call. Ita replaces Kia
Breaux, who was promoted in 2003 from The Associated Press office in
Kansas City to the AP office in Omaha. Lewis Diuguid, vice
president/community resources at The Star, was re-elected treasurer.
Anita said that even though she had served two, one-year terms as
president of KCABJ, she planned to continue to work on obtaining a federal
tax-exempt 501(C)3 status for the organization to enable it to do more
aggressive fund-raisers.
KCABJ member Glenn E. Rice reported that correspondence has begun with
Rockhurst University to ensure the college's commitment to allow the KCABJ
Urban Student Journalism Workshop to continue there. Members discussed
changing the name of the workshop to an "academy'' to reflect the intensive
academic work required of students who graduate from the two-week summer
program. If Rockhurst University doesn't continue its commitment, KCABJ will explore having the program at another area college or university. "There are many possibilities,'' Anita Parran said.
NABJ News
The National Association of Black Journalists is gearing up for the
UNITY: Journalists of Color convention Aug. 4-8 in Washington, D.C.
About 7,000 journalists are
expected to attend. Workshops will range from new media to management as
well as pertinent information on issues affecting people of color.
Unity also will include the world's largest career expo for journalists
of color featuring more than 400 recruiters and exhibitors. People who
attend can expect to enjoy more than 100 workshops for print, broadcast,
magazine, photo, online/new media and management professionals.
Daily press conferences will be held on major news and research related
to race and diversity in the media, and three plenary sessions will take
place. Early-bird registration is $250 for members, $100 for
student members, $400 for non-members, $150 for student non-members and $250
for a spouse or child. The deadline for early-bird registrations is Feb. 15.
The pre-registration deadline is June 15. After that date the cost for NABJ members jumps
to $325. Register early! The first Unity convention took place in 1994 in
Atlanta; the second was held in Seattle in 1999.
Other NABJ Happenings
NABJ's Special Honors and Media Monitoring committees are seeking
nominations for NABJ's highest awards. The deadline is Feb. 16. The
categories are Lifetime Achievement, Journalist of the Year, Legacy, Percy
Qoboza, Community Service, Thumbs Down, Emerging Journalist, Best Practices,
Chapter of the Year and Student Chapter of the Year. Except for Lifetime
Achievement, all of the nominees contributions and achievements should have
occurred between Jan. 1, 2003 and Dec. 31, 2003. Check out
www.nabj.org/special_hons.html for more information.
The 2004 NABJ Region VII Conference and Career Fair will take place March
11-14 in Houston at the Westin Oaks Hotel. For more information call Region
VII Director Russell LaCour at (800) 999-6397 or send e-mail to
russell.lacour@tulsaworld.com.
The 2004 Region IV Conference will take place April 1-4 at the Poynter
Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. For more information call Region IV
Director Ernie Suggs at (404) 526-5672 or send e-mail to esuggs@ajc.com.
SPJ Regional Conference in Kansas City
The Society of Professional Journalists will hold its Region 7 conference
on March 26-27 at the University of Kansas Regents Center in Overland Park,
Kan. The Kansas City Press Club and the Kansas City Kansas Community
College Student Satellite Chapter will be the hosts.
The cost is $75 for SPJ
members registering before March 10; $90 for nonmembers. Registration
includes a lunch and the Mark of Excellence Awards dinner. From 8 a.m. to
noon Saturday, March 27, Kelly McBride with the Poynter Institute will
discuss journalism ethics. Saturday also will include breakout sessions. One
will feature reporting in Iraq with Jeff Seidel of the Detroit Free Press.
Thomas E. Franklin, who took the famous firefighter photo after Sept. 11, 2001, for the Bergen Record in Hackensack, N.J., will deliver the keynote address at the Mark of Excellence
Awards banquet at the Marriott in Overland Park. Tickets for the dinner only
are $25 each. Mark of Excellence Awards entries are due Feb. 2. For more
information send e-mail to Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell, Regional Director,
Region 7, Society of Professional Journalists, at fivecoat@kcnet.com or call
(913) 362-3860.
The Kansas City Press Club also is seeking entries for its annual contest
for work done in 2003. For more information contact Fivecoat-Campbell.
Opportunities On The Horizon
The Longview (Texas) News Journal is seeking a business editor, reporter,
lifestyle/religion editor/writer. For more information call (903) 232-7225
or send e-mail to Ana Pecina Walker at awalker@coxnews.com.
NABFEME and T. Howard Foundation Summer Internship Program are seeking
graduate and undergraduate women and people of color who are majoring in
business, marketing, communications, public relations, engineering,
management information systems and computer science. It wants to provide
qualified candidates for the entertainment industry. For more information
call (703) 739-8348 or send applications to www.t-howard.com.
The NABJ Media Institute is offering a workshop called "Radio on
Deadline'' on Feb. 21 at WSB Radio in Atlanta. For more
information check out www.nabj.org/mediainst_radio.html.
The Charlotte Observer is seeking a theater writer. For more information
call Lewis Diuguid at (816) 234-4723.
The Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism is accepting
applications from journalists for its workshop, "Covering Conflict: The
Media at War.'' It will be on March 15-19 at the Western Knight Center for
Specialized Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate
School of Journalism. For more information call (510) 643-7425.
Women in journalism are invited to share strategies, learn management
skills and create action plans at a forum that the Newsroom Leadership Group
is holding. The daylong workshops are designed to help women build and
maintain newsroom careers and capture more women readers. The workshops will
be on Feb. 9 at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute in Nashville, Tenn.;
May 6 at the San Jose Mercury News in San Jose, Calif.; May 17 at the Tampa
Tribune in Tampa, Fla.; Sept. 16 at the Canadian Newspaper Association (site
to be named); Oct. 26 at the Austin American-Statesman in Austin, Texas; and
at the Philadelphia Inquirer (date to be determined). For more information
check out workshops@newsroomleadership.com.
WROW in Albany, N.Y., is seeking a news anchor/reporter. For more
information e-mail Mike Carey at mcarey@albanybroadcasting.com.
The Lancaster (Ohio) Eagle-Gazette has a job opening for a photographer.
For more information call Antionette Taylor-Thomas, managing editor, at
(740) 681-4348.
The History Makers Oral History Project is seeking interviewers to gather
information from people. For more information send faxes to (312) 674-1915.
Applications are out for the 2004 AHANA Journalism Workshop at the
University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. The program runs from
July 5-13. For more information or to get an application call (573)
882-6031. The applications have already been mailed to 2004 KCABJ workshop
graduates.
The New York Times Student Journalism Institute is seeking applications
for its Seminar for Aspiring Journalists from Historically Black Colleges
and Universities. The program will take place May 16-29 at Dillard
University in New Orleans. The deadline is Feb. 28. For more information
call (212) 556-1800, e-mail Betsy Areaddy at aredde@nytimes.com, check out
www.nytco.com or www.nytco.com-community.
NBC News is seeking applicants for its 2004-2005 News Associates Program.
It's an opportunity for people to learn news gathering and production skills
for on-air jobs. The salary is $33,600; the deadline is Feb. 16. For more
information check out www.nbcjobs.com/News--Associate--Program.html.
WDAF-FOX, Channel 4 in Kansas City is seeking two associate producers, a
news reporter and an anchor/reporter. Resumes can be faxed to (816)
932-9193.
KCBS-AM in San Francisco is seeking a staff anchor/reporter. Fax resumes
to (415) 765-4146 or send e-mail to janbanilla@netscape.net.
The Boston Globe has an opening for a copy editor/paginator. For more
information call Lewis Diuguid at (816) 234-4723.
The Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families has openings for 30
print, broadcast and online journalists for its March 14-18 seminar:
``Condition Critical: Covering Children's Health.'' It will be at the
University of Maryland, College Park. For more information call (301)
699-5133 or send e-mail to fellows@casey.umd.edu.
Southern Progress, a magazine in Birmingham, Ala., has several news,
advertising, sales marketing and promotions openings. For more information
check out www.southernprogress.com.
KC People
KCABJ starts out the new year with 15 paid members. They are KCABJ
President Tracy Allen, KCABJ Secretary Eyobong Ita, Treasurer Lewis Diuguid,
Anita K. Parran, Joi Preciphs, Lurleen Brinkman (a 2003 student workshop
graduate), Alonzo Weston Sr., Eugene Scott, Cherronna R. Mitchell, Leilani
Hatywood, Norma J. Martin, J.W. Edwards, Margaret Nichols, Eric L. Wesson
and Christi L. Gipson. Membership dues always are welcome. Dues have remained
only $20 since 1981 when KCABJ was founded.
Former Kansas Citian Vickie Newton, news-anchor/reporter at KMOV-TV in St. Louis, is the new NABJ director for Region VIII. That territory includes NABJ members in Iowa,
Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska. Vickie, who previously worked in television in Kansas City, joins the 19-member NABJ board of directors.
Shawn Edwards, a film critic for WDAF-TV Channel 4, is among the members of the
new African-American Film Critics Association. Other members are Wilson
Morales with Blackfilm.com in New York; syndicated columnist Gil Robertson
in Los Angeles; Stephanie Frederic with BET Nightly News in Los Angeles;
Karu F. Daniels with The Ru Report in New York; Mike Sargent with WBAI Radio
in New York; and Greg Russell with WDWB-TV in Detroit. The group produced
its top 10 films list for 2003. For more information call (323) 969-4804 or
send e-mail to info@aafca.com.
Ben Johnson, who in the 1980s became the first black managing editor of
the Columbia Missourian, died in December. You can learn more in the January
2004 KCABJ Newsletter.
Jason Whitlock, sports columnist for The Kansas City Star and sports talk
show host, had his annual year-end party at his home in December.
Malecia El-Amin, former copy editor at The Kansas City Star and now copy
editor at The Dallas Morning News, wrote a column on the effects
Christmas celebrations have on Muslims like her. For a copy of the piece
call Lewis Diuguid at (816) 234-4723.
KCABJ Membership Application for 2004
Mail this application with your $20 check/money order to KCABJ, P.O. Box
32744, Kansas City, Mo. 64111. It covers your annual membership dues.
Membership entitles you to receive the KCABJ monthly newsletter sent via
e-mail or in paper form.
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