TABJ is ending 2013 with some great momentum. Our last good deed of the year occurred Thursday when members discussed careers in communications with students at Allen Middle School's career fair. Cami Anthony (WFMY News 2), Christopher Lea (102 Jamz and WXII 12 News) and Marquita Brown (News & Record) handed out pens, backpack tags and lists of careers in communications during the 4-hour fair. Some of the kids asked great questions about the journalism industry. Others ran to the adjacent Terminix booth to see bugs in a jar. Overall, the day went well. On Saturday, TABJ members attended the final general body meeting and social at Tavo in downtown Greensboro. We discussed two big projects with the guests Deidre James, of Rock 92 and the Carolina Theatre Board of Directors, and Lamar and Cheryl DeLoatch of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS). TABJ will be Carolina Theatre's community partner for the Eric Benét concert on Jan. 18. TABJ will help promote the show, provide a talent showcase before Benét's performance and introduce the Grammy-nominated artist. Paid TABJ members will get special concert perks for being part of the or Another 2014 project includes helping college students complete a video project about unsung heroes in the Triad's black community for the Piedmont-Triad chapter of AAGHS. The next year is sure to be another busy one. This is some of what we accomplished in 2013:
We'll be on to bigger and better things tin 2014! TABJers spent some time speaking about careers in communication with inquisitive students in two English classes at Andrews High School in High Point. Tuesday's visit turned out to be a great event.
A big thanks to the TABJers who attended: Kerry Charles, Chanel Davis, Jordan Howse, Christopher Lea, Jasmine Spencer and Carl Walton. TABJ members likely will return to Andrews to visit the journalism class. TABJ also will meet and greet students at the Allen Middle School Career Fair on Thursday, Dec. 19, in Greensboro. TABJ members joined dozens of volunteers Monday to box full Thanksgiving meals for families in need. Jasmine Spencer, Faith Abubéy, Dioni L. Wise, Jordan Howse, Nagatha Tonkins and Chanel Davis helped pack 7,000 meals at Williams Memorial CME Church in High Point. Each box can feed a family of five. Each box included items such as green beans, stuffing, yams and cranberry sauce. Folks picked up meals from the church on Tuesday. Watch footage from WFMY News 2 (CBS). The Triad Association of Black Journalists took over two tables at the Guilford County Schools Career Exploration Fair on Tuesday, Nov. 19, to promote careers in communications. TABJ members Faith Abubéy (WFMY News 2 reporter/weekend anchor), Kerry Charles (FOX 8 morning news anchor), Jordan Howse (High Point Enterprise education reporter), Tiffany McKiver and Dioni L. Wise (Pace Communications digital content specialist) talked with students from first grade to 12th grade.
They told students how they got into the industry, explained their jobs and handed out lists of dozens of media careers that range from reporting to graphic design. Parents, students and teachers were excited to meet the journalists they see on TV every day. Faith even brought a camera to let students practice reporting live. The TABJ booth was one of the most popular of the night. Let's hope more kids are inspired to become the next crop of great journalists. TABJ has been busy. Very busy. On Oct. 31, the chapter welcomed NABJ President Bob Butler, who flew in from the California to visit the Triad. Earlier in the day, Butler visited WFMY News 2, WGHP Fox 8 and the News & Record among other news outlet to meet with management. TABJ hosted a reception for Butler at Chandler's Coffee House & Florist. Dozens of professionals, professors and students from Greensboro, High Point and Winston-Salem attended the reception. TABJ President Kerry Charles kicked off the program by informing the crowd of future TABJ events. Then NCCJ Triad Executive Director Susan Feit expressed her excitement about TABJ attending the NCCJ Citation Dinner to honor broadcast trailblazer Sandra Hughes. TABJ Secretary Dioni L. Wise then read the entries in the Twitter contest in which students vied for a TABJ-sponsored ticket to the NCCJ dinner. Wise announced that judges selected Bennett College senior Racquel Bethea as the winner. TABJ then surprised Dr. Linda Callahan, longtime professor at N.C. A&T, with a special commemoration for receiving the 2013 Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award at a national journalism educator conference in Washington D.C. for establishing the high school media program that has been emulated by other universities in the state and has since become one of six regional workshops of the N.C. Scholastic Media Association. Porsha Taylor, Callahan’s student and president of the NABJ student chapter at N.C. A&T, read a touching letter to Dr. Callahan. Taylor thanked Callahan for helping her attain internship and pursue her dreams. Charles then shows a special video from Jerry Revish, Callahan’s former colleague in Ohio. Revish, an anchor and reporter for WBNS 10TV in Columbus, Ohio, congratulated Callahan on her award and credited her for starting a program for students in Columbus that’s been running for two decades. Butler ended the night by expressing the importance of NABJ promoting diversity in newsrooms and providing solutions to the problem. He also encouraged TABJ to keep doing community service and furthering NABJ’s efforts on the ground level. On Nov. 1, N.C. A&T's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication presented town hall discussions on media coverage of civil and human rights. Butler and Charles were featured panelists. JOMC Journal Assistant Editor Ashleigh Wilson wrote a story about the panel. On Nov. 7, TABJ members and local students attended the NCCJ Citation Dinner that honored Sandra Hughes. The group included Kerry Charles, Cami Marshall Anthony, Dioni L. Wise, Devetta Blount, Michael Spears, Aaron Singleton, Ditra Miller, Amanda Bazemore, Epiphinae McClennon, Racquel Bethea and Uniqua Quillins. During her speech, Hughes inspired the crowd with her speech about enduring hardships in the newsrooms, including harrowing accounts of receiving bomb threats. She only wanted to help and inform people, and continues to do that as an instructor at her alma mater, N.C. A&T. TABJ was happy to support her for this special honor. |
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