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January 16, 2014

Bernard Shaw

Herb Boyd ErnestDunbar

Jay Harris

MosesNewson

Zelda Ormes Lee Thornto

MaureenBunyan

2014 Ida B. WellsAward Winner

Sheila Solomon

The Newseum555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

Reception: 6:30 p.m.

Ceremony: 8:00 p.m.


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Ernest Dunbar (posthumous)Ernest Dunbar was a globetrotting journalist who made his mark as the rst black reporter at Lookmagazine in 1954. After graduate work in journalism at Northwestern, he became assistant editorat Look in 1958 and senior editor in 1959 and held that post until the magazine closed in 1971.Dunbar was one of the rst black reporters at any mainstream national publication. The prolicwriter also wrote and edited books, including The Black Expatriates: A Study of American Negroesin Exile (1968 book he edited), and Nigeria (1974). He also free-lanced for Readers Digest, NewYork Times Magazine, Redbook, and Saturday Review, and served as president of Black Perspec-tives, a 1960s New York group that predated the National Association of Black Journalists.

Jay HarrisJay T. Harris holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Democracy at the AnnenbergSchool for Communication at the University of Southern California where he joined the facultyin October 2002. Harris is one of three persons holding the rank of Presidential Professor atSanta Clara University where he also teaches. He also serves as the founding director of TheCenter for the Study of Journalism and Democracy. From 1994 to 2001 Harris was chairman andpublisher of the San Jose Mercury News. During his seven years as publisher the paper rose tonational prominence for the quality of its journalism. He also made the Mercury News a nationalpioneer in multi-cultural publishing in one of the nations most diverse cities. During his years aspublisher the newspaper posted record prots and built one of the industrys most diverse staff

and management teams.

Maureen BunyanMaureen Bunyan is a veteran television news broadcaster and a primary anchor for ABC 7.Named a Washingtonian of the Year in 1992, Ms. Bunyan has an extensive record of serviceto the community. She is a founder and board member of the International Womens MediaFoundation, which serves women in the media in 100 countries. She is a founder of the NationalAssociation of Black Journalists. She also serves on several other boards of national and localinstitutions and organizations. She has been awarded seven local Emmys and the Ted YatesAward, given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to Washington, DCnews broadcasters who are leaders in the profession. She was named Journalist of the Yearby the National Association of Black Journalists in 1990. She received the annual Immigrant

Achievement Award from the American Immigration Law Foundation in 2002.

Herb BoydHerb Boyd has authored or edited 22 books, including the recent Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today.His book Baldwins Harlem was nalist for a 2009 NAACP Image Award. In 1995, with Robert Al-len, he received an American Book Award for Brotherman--The Odyssey of Black Men in America.We Shall Overcome, a media-fusion book with narration by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, is used inclassrooms around the world, as is his Autobiography of a People and The Harlem Reader. Boydcredits his meeting Malcolm X in 1958 as inspiration: [He] set me on the path to become thewriter-activist I am, to try to live up to the very ennobling things that he represented. Among thehighlights of his journalism career was an invitation to y on Air Force One with President Obama,whom he has interviewed several times.

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is proud to announce the 2014 Hall of Fame inductees. The eight wibe honored at the 2014 Hall of Fame Induction and Reception, held on Thursday, January 16, at The Newseum in Washington, D.C. Each year NABJ honors renowned African-American journalists who have made outstanding contributions to the

industry. The paths they have paved make the work of NABJ and all of our member journalists possible. Since 1990, NABJ hainducted 55 distinguished journalists into the Associations Hall of Fame.


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Bernard ShawBernard Bernie Shaw retired from CNN in 2001 after being the face of the cable network sinceits inception in 1980. During that time, Shaw commanded the anchor desk and boldly steered thenational conversation even when taking on positions of adversity. He is also remembered for hisreporting on the 1991 Gulf War. With cruise missiles ying by, Shaw and two of his fellow corre-spondents delivered information while sheltering under a desk in Baghdad. Shaw moderated theOctober 2000 vice-presidential debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman. From 1992 untilhis retirement, Shaw anchored CNNs Inside Politics. The venerable anchorman began his careerin Chicago at WNUS TV, and then later joined CBS News and ABC news, becoming its Capitol HillSenior Correspondent.

Moses NewsonA respected reporter from the civil rights era, Moses Newson risked his life covering some ofthe most notable events of the time. These events included the Emmett Till murder trial, schooldesegregation in Little Rock and the 1961 Freedom Rides. In 1952 Newsons rst job as a reportercame at the Tri-State Defender in Memphis. Newson left the Tri-State Defender for the BaltimoreAfro-American, where he would be a reporter, city editor and ultimately executive editor for thenal 10 of his 21 years at the newspaper. Newsom later left journalism to become a public affairsspecialist for what was to become the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Afterworking for the government for 17 years, Newson retired at age 68. He was inducted into theMaryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association in 2008.

Zelda Ormes (posthumous)Zelda Jackie Ormes was an African-American newspaper writer and cartoonist. On May 1,1937, Ormes created her earliest cartoon. It was an action, romance, and soap opera comicfeaturing a Black heroine named Torchy Brown. Ormes modeled some cartoon characters afterherself as intelligent, beautifully dressed and coiffed females, appearing and speaking out inways that deed stereotyped images of blacks in the mainstream press. In 1942, Ormes went towork for the Chicago Defender in a non-artistic position. She was also on the board of directorsof the DuSable Museum of African-American History and Art. Ormes strips were syndicated inBlack newspapers across the country, making her the only nationally syndicated Black womancartoonist until the 1990s.

Lee Thornton (posthumous)In 1977, Frances Lee Thornton became the rst African-American woman to cover the WhiteHouse regularly for CBS, and later taught journalism and was an administrator at the Universityof Maryland. Dr. Thornton, whose degree was in radio, television and lm studies, began her ca-reer in academia before entering broadcast journalism in the early 1970s. She joined CBS Newsin 1974 and, from 1977 to 1981, covered the Carter White House. She began teaching journal-ism at Howard University in the 1980s and took a sabbatical in the early 1990s to produce publicaffairs shows at CNN, including Both Sides with Jesse Jackson. In 1997, she joined the Universi-ty of Marylands College of Journalism as the rst holder of the Richard Eaton Chair in BroadcastJournalism. She was interim dean of the journalism school in 2008-09 and later served as interim

associate provost for equity and diversity at the University.

2014 Ida B. Wells Award Winner - Sheila SolomonSheila Solomon dedicated her life to the developing the careers of journalists of color andbringing diversity to the journalism industry. Currently, she serves as an adjunct professor atColumbia College in Chicago. She is best known as the Cross Media Editor and Senior Editor forRecruitment at The Chicago Tribune. As a manager, one of her most noted contributions waseducating and recruiting many journalists of color through Tribunes Minority Editorial TrainingProgram (METPRO). She served as a Tribune Company liaison with Historically Black Colleges andUniversities. Solomon was one of the rst journalists of color at The Newport News Daily Pressand served as staff development editor. Solomon was also inducted into the Hampton UniversityJournalism and Communications School Hall of Fame in the fall of 2012.


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Every year, the National Association of Black Journalists andthe Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern Universityjointly award this prestigious honor to a media executiveor manager who has made outstanding efforts to makenewsrooms and news coverage more accurately reect thediversity of their communities.

The award is named in honor of the distinguished journalist,fearless reporter, and wife of one of Americas earliest black

publishers. Wells was "editor and proprietor" of the MemphisFree Speech and Headlight. She told her male co-foundersshe would not help launch the newspaper unless she wasmade "equal to them." In the late 19th century, Wells wonacclaim on two continents for her fearless crusade againstlynching.

She championed an integrated society and urged blackAmericans to seek their rightful share of the jobs in the newindustrial age. Today a massive public housing complex inChicago is named in her memory.

First bestowed in 1983, the Wells award itself consists of a bust with a specic notation of theact or actions being recognized. Professors at the Medill School of Journalism at NorthwesternUniversity serve as co-curators. Sam Adams, the longtime University of Kansas journalismprofessor and civil rights movement reporter, founded the award, formerly administered theawards.

NABJ and the Medill School of Journalism are proud to announce the recipient of the 2014 IdaB. Wells is Sheila Solomon for her dedication to educating and mentoring aspiring journalists ofcolor as well as promoting diversity at the major news outlets where she worked.

Previous Ida B. Wells recipients include:

Sam Adams Mervin Aubespin James K. Batten Barry Bingham, Jr. Frank A. Blethen Bobbi Bowman Don Browne Daniel B. Burke Steve Capus Shelby Coffey, III

Johnita P. Due Michael Fields Albert Fitzpatrick Loren Ghiglione Donald Graham Jay T. Harris Timothy M. Kelly Donald Lawrence, Jr. Wanda Lloyd Reid MacCluggage

Paula Madison Allen H. Neuharth Richard Prince John C. Quinn Gerald M. Sass Virgil Smith Reggie Stuart Walterene Swanston David Yarnold

Ida B. Wells Award


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