Dorothy Butler Gilliam

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A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America

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Produktbeschreibung

Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown & Company
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781546083443
• ISBN-10: 1546083448
• Artikelnr.: 52713685

Autorenporträt

Dorothy Butler Gilliam has been a journalist for more than six decades. In 1961, she became the first black woman reporter for the Washington Post. She would later become an editor and a columnist for the paper before retiring in 2003. Throughout her career, she has worked tirelessly to nurture other journalists of color and to diversify newsrooms across the United States. Her work as a civil rights journalist has been featured in three documentaries: Freedom's Call, Southern Journalists Who Covered the Civil Rights Movement, and Hope & Fury: MLK, The Movement and The Media . During her career, Ms. Gilliam appeared regularly on television, including PBS, and hosted her own show on BET. She formerly served as president of the National Association of Black Journalists and of the Unity Journalists of Color.