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Abby Philip realized her passion was in journalism and not cardiovascular surgery her junior year upon walking through The Harvard Crimson halls.
A trip to Mississippi and Tennessee cemented this passion. We traveled to the place where Emmett Till was killed, she said Friday during the Georges Conference on College Journalism, a zoom event sponsored by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.
There, Phillip realized modern journalism was built on the foundation of reporters of that era retelling authentic stories of what they saw and experienced.
Years later, as a CNN political correspondent and weekend anchor, Phillip still remembers the importance of minorities being able to authentically retell their experiences through journalism.
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NEW YORK (AP) â ABC named Kim Godwin as its news division president on Wednesday, making her the first Black woman to be the top news executive at a broadcast network.
Godwin has been second-in-command at CBS News, which learned Wednesday that its own division president, Susan Zirinsky, is stepping down after two years on the job.
Godwin has worked at CBS News since 2007, after running local broadcast news operations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Cleveland. She replaces James Goldston, who announced in January that he was leaving.
âThroughout Kim s career in global news organizations and local newsrooms, she has distinguished herself as a fierce advocate for excellence, collaboration, inclusion and the vital role of accurate and transparent news reporting,â said her new boss, Disney general entertainment content chairman Peter Rice.
Robin Washington, an award-winning veteran journalist from Minnesota, is the Forward’s Editor-at-Large. A longtime senior editor, columnist, radio host and documentarian across mainstream and ethnic media, he was one of the founders of the Alliance for Black Jews and early pioneer of the term, “Jew of color” more than two decades ago. He has mentored scores of young journalists, served as a board member on the National Association of Black Journalists and Unity Journalists of Color, and lectured at numerous universities. Contact him at rwashington@forward.com or follow him on Twitter @robinbirk.
According to published reports, Danielle Kwateng has been named to the post following the exit of Alexi McCammond who recently resigned as editor-in-chief after her old, racially insensitive tweets resurfaced.