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The Role of Black Journalists

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Cross, June Barrow-Murray, Barbara White, Conrad Moore, Melvin Valdes, Mario Fletcher, Leah Chu, Justina Hart, Tanya Sampedro, Eric Yang, Eileen

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In this clip Ron Hutson, Mel Miller, Barbara Barrow and Sarah Ann Shaw debate the role of black journalists as reporters, not activists. Overall the program is the second of two focusing on Black media and its function in the community. Host Barbara Barrow speaks with Ron Hutson (head of the Urban 'Team' at the Boston Globe), Mel Miller (publisher of the Bay State Banner), and Sarah-Ann Shaw (reporter for WBZ News and host of the television program Mzizi Roots) about how people get their news, differences between reading newspapers and watching the news on television, and what the media should be doing to serve an educational purpose. Additional segments include the "Say Brother News" with reporters Leah Fletcher, Eric Sampedro, Justina Chu, and WNAC TV arts critic Tanya Hart, "man on the street" interviews with Boston residents regarding the function of the media, and the "Third World Connection" (in which the blending of Spanish, Caucasian, and African ethnicities in Brazil and the West Indies is discussed). Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by Conrad White.
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Cross, JuneMorton, WilJohnson, NatJohnson, LenitaHandyside, KeithDeVitt, DougSmith, LeeDemers, LeoSongai, JahidMackles, GeneBordett, BruceKoppel, TiitClarke, BrianHolden, DickMahard, FranWareham, SkipMacDonald, GregBalhatchet, TomSullivan, John LHorne, DannyHill, RebeccaBuccheri, RonFloyd, MikeMacKnight, JohnSmith, KathyFairweather, BillMarshall, Carolyn
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Keywords

  1. African American Journalists
  2. African Americans
  3. African Americans In Mass Media
  4. African Americans In Television Broadcasting
  5. African Americans In The Newspaper Industry
  6. Bay State Banner
  7. Boston Globe
  8. Harris, Hilda
  9. Hutson, Ron
  10. Massachusetts
  11. Miller, Mel
  12. Reporters And Reporting
  13. Shaw, Sarah Ann

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