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Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson

Welcome
Hosted by Suzanne Malveaux, CNN

Opening Remarks
Greg Lee, NABJ President

Hall of Fame Induction

Ruth Allen Ollison

Hall of Fame Induction

Johnathan Rodgers

Remarks
Jack Marsh, Freedom Forum Diversity Institute

Ida B. Wells Award

Michael Fields

Hall of Fame Induction

Wallace Terry

Were proud to sponsor the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame Banquet

Special Tribute to the Tuskegee Airmen

Maureen Bunyan

Hall of Fame Induction

Pat Harvey

Hall of Fame Induction

Gwen Ifill

Remarks
James C. Duff, Newseum President

Closing Remarks
Maurice Foster, NABJ Executive Director

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President Gregory Lee The Boston Globe Vice President/Broadcast Bob Butler KCBS Radio, Oakland Vice President/Print Errin Haines Associated Press Secretary Lisa Cox KTLA-TV Los Angeles/Tribune Treasurer Keith Reed ESPN The Magazine Parliamentarian Cindy George Houston Chronicle Region I Director Mara Schiavocampo NBC News Region II Director Corey Dade National Public Radio

Region III Director Dedrick Russell WBTV, LLC/Raycom Media, Charlotte Region IV Director A. J. Ross ABC 6/Fox 28 Sinclair Broadcasting, Columbus Region V Director Mary Benton KPRC-TV (NBC), Houston Region VI Director Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig shades Magazine Associate Representative Dawn Roberts KD Communications Group Student Representative Wesley Lowery Ohio University

Executive Director Maurice Foster Finance Manager Nathaniel Chambers Membership Manager Veronique Dodson Program Manager Jannice Hodge Development Consultant Miranda Lewis Executive Assistant Natalia Prakash
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Communications Consultant Aprill O. Turner Program Manager Irving Washington Program Assistant Isoke Karamoko Staff Accountant Janice Atkins Development Assistant Tyeesha Greene-Posey

Pat Harvey
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the Board of the National Association of Black Journalists, we thank you for joining us for our annual Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Since 1990, NABJ has honored pioneering journalists who represent the best and brightest in journalism and whose contributions to the craft have been legendary. Our honorees are role models who have committed themselves to ensuring freedom of the press, as well as phenomenal reporting and storytelling. Tonights honorees include: Gwen Ifill, Pat Harvey, Ruth Allen Ollison, Johnathan Rodgers, and the late Wallace Terry. We also will recognize Michael Fields with the Ida B. Wells Award, which honors a media executive who has committed his or her life and career to diversity in the newsroom. Tonight is a special night and it would not be possible without the generous support of members and colleagues like you who have joined us for this occasion. Proceeds from tonights events benefit NABJ programs designed to ensure that the nations newsrooms are as diverse as its readers, listeners and viewers. I would like to thank our committee for making tonights festivities possible: Maureen Bunyan, Lynn Norment, Paul Brock, Lisa Cox, and Carol Ash. Also, I would like to give a special thanks to Jack Marsh, President and COO of the Freedom Forums Diversity Institute and John Seigenthaler, Founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, for their support in hosting this evening. We are proud to present this annual gathering at the Newseum, the only event that solely recognizes the accomplishments of African Americans in the field of journalism. We thank you for helping us kick off a phenomenal year for NABJ here at the Hall of Fame, and hope youll join us when thousands of journalists and media professionals convene for NABJs Annual Convention and Career Fair in New Orleans, June 20-24. Again thank you for joining us as we induct our newest members into the NABJ Hall of Fame. Let us continue to be committed to the cause of promoting diverse newsrooms which chronicle an increasingly multicultural society, with truly representative viewpoints and perspectives. Onward, Gregory Lee Jr.
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Greetings Friends, On behalf of the entire staff of the National Association of Black Journalists, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to the Newseum here in Washington, D.C. for the 2012 Hall of Fame Induction and Reception. I am delighted to share in this momentous occasion with you, as we honor the achievements of six of the most outstanding journalists of our era. The Hall of Fame induction is the highest honor that NABJ bestows. This years inductees could not be more deserving of such noteworthy distinction. Gwen Ifill, Pat Harvey, Dr. Ruth Allen Ollison, Johnathan Rodgers, and Wallace Terry are all legends of the journalism industry in their own right, as is our Ida B. Wells Award winner, Michael Fields. NABJ is proud to recognize the contributions of these six exceptional journalists on this special occasion. I must express my sincere thanks to all of our sponsors Gannett, CBS News, Prudential Financial, Rent-A-Center, Northrop Grumman, Comcast/NBC Universal, CNN, AFTRA, MedImmune, PBS and Pepco. Without their support, none of this would be possible. Special thanks are also in order for our host of the evening, NABJ member and CNN anchor Suzanne Malveaux. Last month, NABJ announced that we disbursed over $110,000 in scholarships to students in 2011. Proceeds from tonight will benefit NABJ programs and initiatives including our scholarship program, which continues to strengthen our capacity to give back in 2012. If you would like to make a contribution, please see an NABJ representative at our information desk or contact the national office at (301) 405-0248. Again, we are so delighted to share in this wonderful occasion with you, and we look forward to your continued support. Please be sure to mark your calendars for this years Convention and Career Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana, June 20th 24th at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel, and have a safe and prosperous new year! Yours in service, Maurice Foster, Esq., CMP

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Suzanne Malveaux anchors the 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom. Malveaux, who has worked in CNNs White House unit for nearly a decade, plays a key role as a member of the networks Best Political Team on Television. During her tenure with CNN, Malveaux has covered three presidents, presidential campaigns, and key stories including the War in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the economic crisis. Based in Atlanta, Malveaux joined the network in May 2002. Malveaux covered the 2008 presidential election cycle from the campaign the trail as a member of the networks Best Political Team on Television. In advance of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Malveaux reported and crafted a 90-minute documentary on Sen. Barack Obama as part of a two-part series on the presidential candidates and did several interviews with Barack and Michelle Obama. Additionally, Malveaux served as a panelist questioning the candidates in the Democratic presidential primary debate sponsored by CNN and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute in January 2008 and played a key role in CNNs 2004 election coverage and its Emmy-winning 2006 election coverage. Malveaux has broken numerous stories for CNN, including the plea deal of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, White House personnel changes and the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OConnor. In September 2005, Malveaux returned to her familys hometown of New Orleans where she reported on the devastation and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. Before joining the network, Malveaux was a correspondent for NBC News based in both Chicago and Washington. Malveaux earned a 1996 Emmy Award and contributed to New England Cable News AP award for Best Newscast in Boston. She was part of the coverage teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for its Katrina coverage and an Alfred I. duPont Award for its coverage of the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia. Malveaux was also named one of Americas Most Powerful Players Under 40 by Black Enterprise magazine, Ebonys Outstanding Women in Marketing & Communications and Essence Magazine 2009 Journalist of the Year. Malveaux earned a bachelors degree from Harvard University and a masters degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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Pat Harvey is more than a personality. She is the one of the most identifiable faces on television in Los Angeles. As the longest-tenured woman in primetime news, she has earned the respect of viewers because of her on-air performance, writing ability, and, most importantly, her journalistic credentials. Harvey has distinguished herself in Los Angeles as a impeccable journalist with the highest credentials and unquestionable integrity, says Lois Pitter-Bruce, a media relations manager for Southern California Edison. As a former Harvey colleague, Pitter-Bruce also notes Harveys strong work ethic and habit of always being prepared. To Harvey her credibility is of the utmost importance. Her natural curiosity and passion helps motivate her to go above and beyond to get the job done. I have always been interested in social issues that affect politics, says Harvey, who attributes this social awareness to her parents. Every morning at the breakfast table my parents would discuss politics. My parents were very active in the community. They were working class people. My dad was a union man, worked at Cadillac motors, and my mom was a schoolteacher. Harvey, a former Miss Black Michigan, began her television career at WGPR-TV in1976 in her hometown of Detroit. In 1979, she became a general assignment reporter in Saginaw, Mich. where she later produced and anchored

the stations evening newscasts. Harvey never lacked selfconfidence, but her career received a boost when William Rick Sykes became her mentor. Sykes, a seasoned reporter, taught her how to become a complete journalist. He would remind me that you will be tested, watched, and scrutinized, recalls Harvey. He even taught me about newsroom politics. In 1981, Harvey was among the inaugural anchor teams that launched CNN Headline News in Atlanta. Later, as anchor for CNNs Daybreak newscast, she regularly interviewed heads of state and other dignitaries. Harvey joined Chicago Superstation WGN as a news anchor in 1985, where she was seen on cable systems throughout the United States and South America. She later joined former Walt Disney-owned and operated KCAL-TV Los Angeles in 1989. In April 2010, Harvey began coanchoring for KCALs sister station KCBS-TV. With her new role, Harvey, already a living legend, gets the chance to become a role model and icon for a new generation.

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Gwen Ifills Twitter timeline is indicative of her primary interest. Politics. On Dec. 16, 2011, Ifill retweeted a Gallup article which reported that seven in 10 Americans are not looking forward to the antics and hoopla sure to pepper the 2012 presidential elections. Ifill laughs when the retweet is called to her attention, and notes that she is among that 30 percent minority. For the PBS Washington Week moderator and managing editor, this years presidential election is a synonym for showtime. I think it gives us a chance to take stock of Americans, Ifill said of the upcoming election. Im almost not as interested in what the candidates are saying. Im more curious about how Americans are responding. Many Americans are curious about what Ifill will uncover with her reporting. Ifill has always wanted to be a journalist. Im so blessed to do what I do. Ifill, 56, a Simmons College graduate, began her journalism career at the Boston Herald-American. The New York native made stops in print newsrooms at The Washington Post and The New York Times before transitioning into

television as a political correspondent for NBC. In 1999, she joined PBS and Washington Week, the longestrunning primetime news and public affairs program on television. In a career that has spanned three decades, the awardwinning journalist and best-selling author holds her own. Ifill challenges politicians with confidence and moderates debates with ease. Ifill, who had few Black journalist role models growing up, knows she serves as an example for many. Its my responsibility, not just to talk about my job, but about my life and how I live it. Ifill said she is incredibly, deeply honored to be inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. The 35-year NABJ member credits the organization for much of her professional success and her personal sanity, calling it a place of refuge.

Written By Nicole Ferguson

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Even though Ruth Allen Ollison left journalism almost 20 years ago, she hasnt been able to shake off the calling. In 1994, she decided to trade in her microphone for the ministry after realizing that she couldnt address social ills from afar. At the time, she was an executive news producer for the CBS affiliate in Houston. I saw poverty, drugs, abuse, addiction, Ollison said. I saw people who were passing up the opportunity to be educated. I saw a lot of young kids without direction. She left the newsroom and bought a crack house on one of the roughest blocks in Houstons Third Ward. It would eventually house Beulah Land Community Church, which she founded. As the name suggests, her ministry focuses on sharing the good news with the people who live in the neighborhoods surrounding the building. Today, Ollison expresses appreciation for her journalistic training, saying it helps her to help others. I have to ask a lot of questions. Who, what, when, where and why are the most important questions in the ministry, and the big one is How? A past president of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators, Ollisons media career took her to Dallas, San Antonio and Washington, D.C. She views her induction to the NABJ Hall of Fame with a mixture of pride, awe and disbelief.

I am still trying to let that sink in, she says. I feel very humbled because of the high level of professionalism and the commitment of NABJ. I would think that I should be trying to figure out a way to honor them rather than them honoring me. Ollison tries to let her work which she believes is in the spirit of NABJ speak for itself. Just as NABJ seeks to enhance opportunities for African-American journalists, she wants to help expand opportunity for all people, particularly those on the margins of society. I felt that way when I was in the business, she says. I feel specifically that way in the ministry.

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Johnathan Rodgers is a man three times retired: first from CBS where he worked for 20 years in several roles, including news director for stations in Chicago and Los Angeles. He later served as general manager of the Chicago station, before becoming president of the networks urban stations. It was important to me as an individual and as an AfricanAmerican male to get into a position where I could help protect, if not control, the images of the African American community, Rodgers once told AfroCentric News. Generally, local television news is seen by African Americans and other people. The image Blacks saw, especially in the 70s and 80s, were African Americans portrayed with their coats over their heads being run through a police line. Rodgers didnt agree with such representation, calling it wrong and unfair. Rather than ignore such coverage, he used his authority to hire people who, using fairness as a yardstick, would not color the news. This I found rewarding, he continued in the AfroCentric interview. Under me, our anchor teams were clearly the role model for multi-cultural talent. The general managers of those stations reported to me and I in turn reported to Howard Stringer, the president of CBS.

After only three months in retirement, Rodgers was lured back to television as president of the Discovery Networks in 1996. At that time, the network only owned the Discovery Channel and the Learning Channel and was valued at $8 billion. When Rodgers retired again, some seven years later, the network had grown to 14 channels and was valued at $18 billion. But again retirement was short lived. In 2004, Rodgers became president and chief executive officer of TV One. The award-winning cable network, which serves nearly 53 million adults, attributes much of its growth and success to Rodgers. Johnathan Rodgers is truly one of the most remarkable individuals in media today, said Roland Martin, host and managing editor of Washington Watch with Roland Martin on TV One. He made a successful transition from journalist (he was the first Black sportswriter at Sports Illustrated) to one of the most successful cable operators of his generation. But what makes Johnathan so special is that he is excellent at recognizing talent, and letting his people do what they do best, Martin continued. For me personally, he is one of my strongest allies and someone who I count on at all times for guidance and advice. I am thankful for his friendship and confidence, and am no doubt pleased that NABJ is recognizing him as one of the best of the best.

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Wallace Terry is a former Washington Post reporter, Time magazine war correspondent, Howard University journalism professor and author of Bloods, the seminal oral history about black soldiers experiences in Vietnam. Yet, the distinguished journalist had been deceased for four years when Erv Dyer, a member of NABJs Pittsburgh chapter, learned about his legacy during a 2007 Veterans Day program in Pittsburgh. Wow, I didnt know about the man, said Dyer, a former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist who was senior editor of Pitt magazine [University of Pittsburgh]. We (as journalists) should know about him. Janice Terry, who talked about her late husbands work during that program in 2007, said he was a smart, exciting and well-read man. She recalled their meeting and subsequent marriage as if it were yesterday. I was an elementary school teacher, she said. I met Wally in 1960 at a party at my best friends house. Wally walked up to me and told me his name. I said, Did you just write a story that was on the front page of the Washington Post?He was stunned, and said, Nobody ever reads my bylines. Will you marry me? She did in 1962.

A year later Wallace Terry left the Post for Time magazine to work as a Washington correspondent. In 1967, he was promoted to deputy bureau chief and dispatched to Vietnam. While there, Terry participated in the daring recovery of several journalists bodies during an enemy attack. Janice Terry visited her husband 18 times during his overseas combat tour, which led an interviewer to ask incredulously, What were you doing, taking him lunch? She answered, I wanted to be with him. After Time, Wallace Terry taught at Howard, wrote Bloods in 1984 and frequently appeared as a contributing editor with Parade, the leading Sunday newspaper magazine. At the start of the 21st century, Wallace Terry was writing a two-volume oral history of civil-rights era black journalists when he contracted a rare vascular disease that strikes one in a million people. Terry died before finishing his epic. His widow picked up the research and, in 2007, published Missing Pages: Black Journalists of Modern America, an Oral History. The book contains 19 oral histories, including four of NABJs 44 founders: Leon Dash, Joel Dreyfuss, Max Robinson and Chuck Stone.

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WABE 90.1FM News Director Michael Fields is a media diversity champion, committed to creating excellent coverage and accurately reflecting the diverse communities that Public Broadcasting Atlanta serves. The Ida B. Wells 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 Memphis Free Speech and Headlight. She told her male co-founders she would not help launch the newspaper unless she was made equal to them. In the late 19th century, Wells won acclaim on two continents for her fearless crusade against lynching. I am greatly humbled to even be mentioned in the same breath with Ida B. Wells, who was one of Americas most courageous journalists, battling the double handicaps of both race and gender to fight the evils of lynching, said Fields. The WABE newsroom first came under the Fields leadership of in 2006. For the last two years, the Atlanta Press Club has selected WABE reporters as the winners of its Radio Journalist of the Year award. Every current WABE reporter has contributed to NPR with a newscast report or longer feature piece, or appeared on an NPR program. Fields encourages reporters to take an in-depth approach to stories, going beyond the traditional who, what, when, and where. One example was the stations ongoing coverage of Georgias immigration reform. WABEs reporter traveled to South Georgia and spent several days with immigrant workers. That story was subsequently featured on the National Public Radio Program, The World. Fields also led WABE newsrooms aggressive and continuing coverage of the test cheating scandal in the Atlanta Public Schools, which has a majority-minority student population. The racial diversity of WABEs Newsroom itself, made Fields a strong candidate for NABJs 2012 Ida B. Wells Award. As an NABJ member himself, Fields understands the importance of assembling a skilled, diverse workforce. Since 2006, Fields has worked to hire reporters who not only reflect the regions population, but have the skills required to produce quality, in-depth reports. Five of WABEs 10-person newsroom are people of color and 40 percent are women.

Accepting a strong recommendation from the NABJ Hall of Fame Screening Committee, the Board of Directors voted in April 2004 to induct 10 historical journalism figures as a one-time measure. The committees rationale was that any legitimate Hall of Fame of Black journalists must include these legendary figures and that 2004 revival of the Hall of Fame was the right time to include them.

Robert S. Abbott
Founded the Chicago Defender, which helped create the Great Migration to the North.

Samuel E. Cornish
Co-publisher, Freedoms Journal, the nations first black newspaper.

Frederick Douglass
A former slave and the nations most prominent abolitionist and the publisher of the North Star.

W.E.B. DuBois
A NAACP founder and creator and first editor of its magazine, The Crisis.

T. Thomas Fortune
One of the most prominent black journalists in the post-Civil War era.

Ethel Payne
First Lady of the Black Press, D.C. correspondent for Sengstacke Newspapers.

Marcus Garvey
Journalist for Africa Times and Orient Review, publisher of Negro World.

John B. Russwurm
Co-publisher, Freedoms Journal, the nations first black newspaper.

John Sengstacke
Founder of Michigan Chronicle and publisher of Chicago Defender and Pittsburgh Courier.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Newspaper editor, crusader against segregation and lynching in the United States.

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2010 INDUCTEES
Ed Bradley Journalist 60 Minutes, CBS News (Posthumous) Merri Dee Anchor, WGN-TV (Chicago) JC Hayward Anchor, WUSA (Washington, DC) Eugene Robinson Columnist Washington Post Ray Taliaferro Journalist whos KGO (San Francsico)

2009 INDUCTEES
Earl Caldwell Reporter and early Civil Rights Activist Peggy Peterman (posthumous) Columnist, St. Petersburg Times Lynn Norment Editor, EBONY Magazine Larry Whiteside Reporter, The Boston Globe, (posthumous)

Forwardthinking. Courageous. Determined.

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2008 INDUCTEES
Charles E. Cobb, Jr. AllAfrica.com Belva Davis KQED-TV (San Francisco) Vernon Jarrett Chicago Tribune (posthumous) Les Payne Newsday columnist

2007 INDUCTEES
Xernona Clayton-Brady Trumpet Awards founder and Broadcast Pioneer Merv Aubespin Past NABJ President, 1983-1985 Artist, reporter and editor The Courier-Journal John L. Dotson, Jr. Former president and publisher Akron Beacon Journal Co-founder, Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education Jim Vance Anchor, WRC-TV (Washington, DC)

GANNETT SALUTES THE FIVE LEGENDARY JOURNALISTS INDUCTED INTO THE NABJS HALL OF FAME AND THE MANY OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS THEY MADE TO THE INDUSTRY.

2006 INDUCTEES
Lerone Bennett Jr. Executive Editor Emeritus Ebony Magazine Al Fitzpatrick Former Executive Editor Knight-Ridder William Raspberry Columnist The Washington Post

2005 INDUCTEES
Charles Teenie Harris Photojournalist Max Robinson Founding NABJ Member Former ABC News Anchor Charlayne Hunter-Gault Broadcast Journalist & Author Carole Simpson Former ABC Anchor World News Tonight Sunday

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