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Pam NewkirkFellowPamela Newkirk, a former daily journalist, is an associate professor of journalism at New York University where she is director of the Urban Journalism Workshop. She is the editor of Letters from Black America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009) and the author of Within the Veil Black Journalists, White Media (New York University, 2000), which won the 2001 National Press Club Award for media criticism. She has edited A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African-American Letters (Doubleday, 2003). Newkirk was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News at New York Newsday in 1992 and won the New York Association of Black Journalists International Reporting Prize in 1990. She is a board member of the Annenberg Commission on the Press. Her articles on the media and African American art and culture have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and Artnews. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reviewed her latest book: "As the country enters a fresh atmosphere around our latest president, 'Letters From Black America' strikes a vital, rich chord in which to breathe the new air."
Selected Articles and Appearances:
Book Tour Black America, in Letters Pamela Newkirk: Letters from Black America Katrina. The Media. And Race Guess Who's Leaving The Newsrooms? Too Many Journalists of Color Don't Stick Around. Why? Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Journalism as a Weapon Against Racial Bigotry |
Working In The ShadowsA Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do
What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour. Check out Thompson's interview on PBS' Tavis Smiley here. More El Monstruo: Book TourFebruary 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
February 11 - May 14
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