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Pamela Newkirk

Fellow

Pamela 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

Radio Show | Radio Nation | September 13, 2005

Guess Who's Leaving The Newsrooms? Too Many Journalists of Color Don't Stick Around. Why?
Article | The Columbia Journalism Review | September/October 2000

Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Journalism as a Weapon Against Racial Bigotry
Paper | Media Studies Journal | Spring/Summer 2000

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