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Student Katrina Correspondents Honored at HBCU ConferenceN.C. award ceremony to recognize coverage of storm and aftermath that appeared in Black College Wire, THE BLACK COLLEGIAN and IMDiversity
NEW ORLEANS - IMDiversity, Inc., publisher of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine, THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Online, and the IMDiversity.com Career Center and Multicultural Villages network, is pleased to congratulate several courageous student journalists from historically Black colleges and universities whose work is to be honored at the 8th annual HBCU National Newspaper Conference and Job Fair. The conference, "Building a Legacy, Featuring Our Past," will be held on February 8-11, 2006 at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C. Among the conference highlights this year, a special awards ceremony will recognize on-the-ground reporting during and after the Gulf Coast's hurricanes and flooding by student contributors to Black College Wire -- a non-profit journalism education project of the Black College Communication Association. A proud co-sponsor of the event, IMDiversity had delayed the release of its annual First Semester Super Issue of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine in order to include a special supplement featuring the students' reporting: "Hurricane Katrina: Views from America's HBCUs". The resulting issue and extended online features were so moving and popular, further collaborations were planned. In remarks for the conference, IMDiversity announced it would publish a second supplement with Black College Wire, "After Katrina: Starting Over in New Orleans," in the magazine's Second Semester Super Issue, as well as the creation of a new editorial internship just for Black College Wire contributors. In closing, the company -- whose staff remains dispersed while its damaged New Orleans headquarters is being rebuilt -- asserted that "It is not just [our great pride] to co-sponsor 'Building a Legacy, Featuring Our Past' and recognize these courageous HBCU students: It is our great privilege. For, they carry a huge part of our future on their shoulders, and to support them is to help ourselves. We rise or fall together."
About Black College WireBlack College Wire is a news service established by the Black College Communication Association in 2002 to promote the journalistic work of students at predominantly black colleges and universities, and link those young journalists to training and employment opportunities in the field. It is supported through partnerships with the National Association of Black Journalists and the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. It is made possible through the professional leadership, editorial guidance, and dedicated mentoring of the following individuals: Richard Prince is editor for Black College Wire and a part-time copy editor for the foreign desk at The Washington Post. His column "Journal-isms" is published Monday, Wednesday and Friday on the website of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Pearl L. Stewart, founder and coordinator of the Black College Wire, teaches journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. She was a reporter and editor for The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and managing editor for The Chicago Defender. Jean Griffith-Thompson is an editorial consultant for the Black College Wire and former associate editor of the editorial pages of The Baltimore Sun. During a career spanning 20 years, she has been an education reporter, a features and magazine editor, a newsroom manager and a newspaper recruiter. She helped launch the HBCU Newspaper Conference and Job Fair. This year and last, she directed the judging of the HBCU Excellence in Journalism contest.
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