Candia Dames is managing editor and news editor of The Nassau Guardian. Dames, a former editor of The Bahama Journal, writes about the challenges reporters face in covering a government that is less than transparent in a country that is better known to many as a tourist playground.
Mike Green is an award-winning journalist, a digital media strategist and media consultant to policymakers, education institutions, business leaders and nonprofit organizations. Green, who is a blogger for the Huffington Post and the Oregon Business Journal, examines the lack of visibility of black tech entrepreneurs and leaders in mainstream and black media.
Tracie Powell writes regularly about the media for several publications. She is the founder of allDigitocracy.org, a blog that focuses on the intersection of technology, media and policy. She writes about a recent Net Neutrality ruling and why it could cause problems for journalists.
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Welma Mashinini Redd is an assistant professor of multiplatform production at Morgan State University. Redd, an award winning producer and filmmaker, former news anchor at the Liberian Broadcasting System and is co-producer/director for the bi-monthly program, The African World, which telecasts on MHz Networks throughout the Washington DC Metro Area. She writes about efforts to suppress journalists in Liberia, including the imprisonment of reporters.
E.R. Shipp, an associate professor and journalist in residence at Morgan State University, was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for commentary. She is a former ombudsman at The Washington Post and taught at Columbia University and became the Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University. In this issue, Shipp dips into the newspaper archives to highlight the New York Age, which chronicled what mattered to blacks for 80 years.
Tonyaa Weathersbee is an award-winning national columnist for the Florida Times-Union based in Jacksonville, and senior project manager for the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in international communications at the University of Florida. The regular contributor to MGJR examines the late Maya Angelou’s turn as a journalist in Egypt and Ghana.
Tracie Powell writes regularly about the media for several publications. She is the founder of allDigitocracy.org, a blog that focuses on the intersection of technology, media and policy. She writes about a recent Net Neutrality ruling and why it could cause problems for journalists.