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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 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 more recently edited A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African-American Letters, (Doubleday, 2003) and is in the process of completing African American Life in Letters which is scheduled to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. 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. Newkirk is in the process of completing African American Life in Letters which is scheduled to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. 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.
Selected Articles and Appearances:
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 |
Salvation BoulevardA novel
From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write." Read glowing reviews of the book in the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Diego Union Tribune. More Clive Stafford Smith on PBS DocumentaryOctober 16 - November 20 | PBS Affiliates
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