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Subject: Fwd: Morgan State Seeks Nominations for Outstanding Reporting on Black
Life: Recipient to Receive Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence
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Subject: Morgan State Seeks Nominations for Outstanding Reporting on Black
Life: Recipient to Receive Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence
Date: July 14, 2017 at 12:03:41 AM EDT
To: patricia.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:patricia.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxx>
School of Global Journalism and Communication
For Immediate Release
Contact: Pat Wheeler
July 13, 2017
443-885-3648
Patricia.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Patricia.wheeler@xxxxxxxxxx>
Morgan State Seeks Nominations for Outstanding Reporting on Black
Life
Recipient to Receive Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence
(Baltimore) – Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism and
Communication (SGJC) will present its 2017 Vernon Jarrett Medal for
Journalistic Excellence September 21 in a ceremony at the National Press Club,
Washington, DC. The Medal honors exemplary reporting on black life in America.
Its distinguished medallion and $10,000 prize will be awarded to a journalist
for work that was published or broadcast between July 1, 2016 and June 30,
2017. The recipient will be recognized for outstanding print, broadcast or
online reporting on an issue, or issues, of significant importance and impact
on some aspect of black life in America.
Nominations should come from an individual, persons or organizations directly
affected by the reporting cited for the award. The recipient and their
nominator will be invited to the award ceremony at the National Press Club
ceremony, Thursday, September 21, 12 to 2 pm.
To nominate a deserving journalist for consideration of the Vernon Jarrett
Medal for Journalistic Excellence, persons should:
1. Send a letter of nomination citing the importance and impact of the
journalist’s work.
2. A copy of the nominated work (print or video), including the name of
the news media that published or broadcast the work and date of publication or
broadcast.
“We are looking for the journalists who are in the forefront of telling
stories about black life in America. We are looking for journalists who are
reporting on the critical issues that are so often overlooked by mainstream
media,” said DeWayne Wickham, SGJC dean.
Named for the late Vernon Jarrett, a pioneering African American columnist,
the award is given annually to a deserving journalist. Jarret wrote for the
Chicago Defender, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. In the late
1940s he partnered with composer Oscar Brow, Jr., to produce “Negro Newsfront”
the first radio news broadcast in the United States created by African
Americans. He also NAACP’s Act-So program, which encourages academic excellence
among black youth, and he a founding member and former president of the
National Association of Black Journalists.
Previous Medal winners are Kirsten West Savali, a writer, cultural critic and
associate editor of The Root, (2016) and Dr. Stacey Patton, an assistant
professor in the SGJC (2015). Prior to joining SGJC, she was a reporter for The
Chronicle of Higher Education.
Nominations should be submitted by August 31, 2017 to:
Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence
School of Global Journalism & Communication
Morgan State University,
1700 E. Cold Spring Lane
Baltimore, MD 21251
The Vernon Jarrett for Journalist Excellence is funded by a grant from the Open
Society Foundation.
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The School of Global Journalism & Communication, created in July 2013, is led
by founding dean DeWayne Wickham, a former columnist for USA TODAY and a
co-founder and former president of the National Association of Black
Journalists. The school is dedicated to giving voice to people who struggle to
contribute to the public discourse that shapes the nation and the world through
innovative teaching, cutting-edge research and exemplary service to Maryland,
the nation and the world. The school seeks to instill students with the skills,
knowledge and training necessary to become effective communicators and to add
to the diversity of thought in the media.
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Pat Wheeler
Interim Chair and
Assistant Professor
Department of Strategic Communication
School of Global Journalism and Communication, room 209
Morgan State University
Phone: 443-885-3648
Email: Patricia.Wheeler@xxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Patricia.Wheeler@xxxxxxxxxx>
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
