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KYW Newsradio reporter Cherri Gregg to join WHYY as host

WHYY By Cherri Gregg will be joining WHYY as a host. (provided) WHYY announced Thursday that award-winning KYW radio reporter Cherri Gregg will join the public media station as an on-air afternoon host beginning June 14. Gregg, Community Affairs reporter at KYW Newsradio and host of Flashpoint with Cherri Gregg, a weekly public affairs radio program and podcast, comes to WHYY with deep ties and connections to the Philadelphia region and its communities. She is a past president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists and was listed as one of the City’s Most Influential Black Women by the Philadelphia NAACP.  She recently won two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for Flashpoint specials for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and News Documentary.

CBS executives leaving company after reports of racist and sexist comments

CBS executives leaving company after reports of racist and sexist comments By Graham Kates April 7, 2021 / 10:41 PM / CBS News Two CBS local television executives are leaving the company, following a January investigation by the Los Angeles Times into allegations they cultivated a hostile work environment. The departures of the two executives, Peter Dunn and David Friend, were announced Wednesday in an internal company email by CBS Entertainment Group President and CEO George Cheeks. We have determined that CBS Stations President Peter Dunn and SVP of News David Friend are not returning to their positions and will be leaving the Company, Cheeks wrote.

USA: IFJ calls for release of Mumia Abu Jamal

IFJ 12 March 2021 USA: IFJ calls for release of Mumia Abu Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American journalist with close ties to the Black Panthers, who has spent nearly 40 years in prison, has tested positive for Covid. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has backed calls from US (NWU) and French (SNJ, SNJ-CGT) affiliates for his immediate release amid growing fears over his health. Credit: MANDEL NGAN / AFP  Abu-Jamal, 66, is currently being held for life without parole at the Mahanoy Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. He suffers from severe respiratory difficulties and has to deal with serious heart failure, as well as debilitating skin problems. 

Black History Month Pride: Ernest Owens

The journalist and activist has caught the attention of the famous and the grassroots alike. Published February 25th Written by Jamila Bey When he’s not making international pop stars write and sing songs about him over his assessments of their cultural appropriation, Ernest Owens is speaking truth to power in his hometown of Philadelphia. Clearly Justin Timberlake did some quaking too. The tune “Say Something,” from the former NSYNC singer’s 2018 album “Man in the Woods,” was written in response to Owens’ blistering Twitter posts from two years prior, which apparently gave him pause. While it was in the news last week that Timberlake apologized to his ex-girlfriend Brittney Spears and also to his Super Bowl XXXVIII co-performer Janet Jackson, the boy band icon has stayed mum where Owens is concerned.

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