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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 09:10:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [NetGold] EDUCATION: K-12: CURRENT EVENTS AND NEWS: Carole
     Simpson's New Assignment ABC-TV Reporter Teaches Students News's 
Importance

EDUCATION: K-12: CURRENT EVENTS AND NEWS: Carole Simpson's New Assignment
ABC-TV Reporter Teaches Students News's Importance

Boston.com
Carole Simpson's New Assignment
ABC-TV Reporter Teaches Students News's Importance
By Suzanne C. Ryan, Globe Staff  |  May 13, 2004
<http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2004/05/13/carole_simpsons_new_assignment/>

It's 9:30 a.m. on a school day, and ABC News's Carole Simpson is on
assignment in the library at West Roxbury High School.

The Emmy-winning journalist isn't covering a story. She's trying to
persuade 20 students that current events are worth paying attention to.

But in an era when many people under 25 would rather play video games than
follow the news, Simpson's prospects look bleak right now.

"How many of you read the newspaper or watch the news on TV?" she asks.

Nikita Reis, 17, is one of the few to raise a hand. "My history teacher
tells us the news every day in class."

"Don't you want to get it firsthand?" Simpson says.

"No," Reis says. "He makes it more interesting."

<snip>

Simpson, who started her career in 1962 as a journalism instructor and
publicist at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, concedes she's also not
entirely happy with the state of network news. "It isn't the ABC News it
was when I started," she said. "We've moved away from stories about poor
people, people who are powerless," she said. "The focus groups have
indicated that the public wants medical and business news."

<snip>

"This is the most frightened I've been in my 40 years in journalism," she
says. "I'm finding that current events and geography are not being offered
to kids. How can we have a society that sustains itself if young people
aren't informed?"

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Who is Carole Simpson?

National Association of Black Journalists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 19, 2003
Contact: Carolyn Wheeler,
301-445-7100 ext. 110
Carolyn@xxxxxxxx

NABJ Applauds Veteran Journalist Carole Simpson,
Regrets Her Departure from ABC News Weekend Anchor Desk
<http://www.nabj.org/news101903.html>

ADELPHI, Md.  The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
commends ABC News veteran journalist Carole Simpson for more than three
decades of service to American journalism as tonight she ended 15 years as
anchor of ABC World News Tonight Sunday.

While praising Simpson as an advocate for diversity and fairness in
Americas newsrooms, NABJ President Herbert Lowe said the association is
appalled that her departure from the anchor desk means that there are no
black journalists anchoring network newscasts in prime time.

Simpson, an Emmy-winning senior correspondent at ABC News and NABJs
Journalist of the Year in 1992, announced she would be leaving the anchor
desk at the end of her report tonight.

Its been my great pleasure to have brought you the news on the weekends
for 15 years, she said. Thank you for allowing me into your homes. I will
miss you.

<snip>

An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the
largest organization of journalists of color in the world, with 3,600
members, and provides educational, career development and support to black
journalists worldwide.

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