National Association Of Dark Journalists

The NABJ rolled out its ruby rug on Jan 27, 2011 at Washington D.C.'s Newseum, inducting 5 legendary journalists into the 2011 Hall of Fame and presenting the Ida B. Wells Award Recipient.

NABJ Hall of Fame Inductees 

& Ida B. Wells Award Recipient 

Ed Bradley – CBS News ‘60 Minutes’

Before his passing inwards 2006, Bradley spent close his entire 39-year career amongst CBS News. At CBS, the homo 1 time described equally "the coolest guy inwards the business” rose to the pinnacle of journalistic achievement.

Merri Dee – WGN-TV Chicago

Dee’s 30-year career inwards Chicago broadcasting in addition to her charitable efforts on behalf of children in addition to victims’ rights brand her a standout honoree.

JC Hayward – WUSA-TV Washington

Hayward, reporter in addition to anchor of 39 years at Washington, D.C.'s WUSA-TV holds the national tape for a adult woman anchoring the same eve newscast at the same station.

Eugene Robinson – The Washington Post

Robinson is a columnist in addition to old assistant managing editor at The Washington Post who won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary inwards 2009. He won for a alternative of columns on the 2008 presidential campaign, in addition to likewise serves equally political analyst for MSNBC.

Ray Taliaferro – KGO Newstalk 810, San Francisco

Ray was the outset dark verbalise demo host on a major marketplace radio station inwards the country. Taliaferro has literally owned the Bay Area's overnight radio listening audience since 1986 when his verbalise demo moved to the 1 to 5 a.m. fourth dimension slot. 


IDA B. WELLS AWARD RECIPIENT: 

Walterene Swanston – National Public Radio (NPR)

The annual Ida B. Wells Award honour highlights the achievement of a media executive who has demonstrated a commitment to diversifying the nation's newsrooms in addition to improving the coverage of people in addition to communities of color. Walterene Swanston is the NABJ's 2011 Ida B. Wells Award Recipient. Swanston is a multifariousness consultant in addition to a retired manager of multifariousness administration for National Public Radio. Swanston has a decades-long professional person rails tape equally a champion of media diversity. For to a greater extent than than 25 years, she has worked amongst newspapers, boob tube in addition to radio stations to recruit, promote, develop in addition to retain people of color in addition to women.

Information source: Nabj.org