Eager teens need the help of this organization's experienced news professionals. Give back by participating in this Fall's program, you'll enrich their lives and yours.

The kick off planning meeting will be this Wednesday, May 29, 7pm at the offices of the Associated Press - 450 West 33rd Street, NYC 10001.

Please RSVP by emailing your full name to info at firsttakynyc.com (for the security desk).

Thank you!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                           

NEW YORK ASSOCIATION OF BLACK JOURNALISTS HOSTS

25^TH ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP & AWARDS BANQUET

CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston will receive Lifetime Achievement Award and

chapter will pay tribute to late WNBC-TV journalist Bob Teague

NEW YORK CITY (May 9, 2012) – The New York Association of Black Journalists will recognize the work of New York City journalists, including special honors to veteran television journalists Randall Pinkston and the late Bob Teague, at its 25^th Annual Scholarship and Awards Banquet.  The sold-out event will take place May 14^th at 6 p.m. at Time-Life. The evening, which will be hosted by with 1010 WINS anchor Larry Mullins and NY1 anchor Diana King,  will benefit NYABJ’s college scholarship fund and musical entertainment will be provided by Rhonda Ross. Confirmed guests include: broadcasting legends Bill McCreary, Carol Jenkins and Norma Quarles.

"NYABJ is honored to present well-deserved awards to all of our winners and also recognize two luminaries in our field—Randall Pinkston and the late Bob Teague,” said NYABJ President Michael J. Feeney. “Most importantly, we are proud that proceeds from our event will go toward scholarships for two deserving high school students—Ashley Johnson and Jeremy Valle.” Both Johnson and Valle are high school seniors who excelled in NYABJ’s First Take student journalism program.

Since 1990, Pinkston has covered many major stories for CBS News, including the Freemen siege in Montana, the Unabomber story, the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, the final launch of NASA's space shuttle Discovery, Tiger Woods' return to the Masters Tournament, as well as the post-war reconstruction of Iraq from Baghdad. He also has reported on the war in Afghanistan from the front lines in Tora Bora and Jalalabad, the devastating earthquake in Turkey and the Albanian refugee crisis in Kosovo.

Pinkston is the recipient of three national Emmy Awards and two for local news coverage. In 1996, he received an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for the documentary, "CBS Reports: Legacy of Shame." He also won Emmy Awards for coverage of the death of Princess Diana in 1998 and for coverage of the TWA Flight 800 disaster in 1997.

Bob Teague, one of New York City’s first black television reporters, worked as a reporter, anchorman and producer at WNBC-TV for over 30 years. He was often sent into black neighborhoods during the 1960s as racial tensions swelled throughout the city and was the chief correspondent for “Harlem: Test for the North,” a documentary produced after riots broke out in the neighborhood in 1963. Shortly after being hired at WNBC, Teague was given his own weekly program, “Sunday Afternoon Report” and became a frequent replacement on NBC network news and sports programs.

Teague started his career in New York in 1956 as a radio news writer for CBS and later joined as a sports copy editor and reporter. Teague died in March at the age of 84.

Sponsors of the event include CNN, NBC 4 New York, Bloomberg, ConEdison, Essence, The Wall Street Journal and Morgan Stanley.

An advocacy group established in 1976, the New York Association of Black Journalists provides career development as well as educational and other support to its members and is an affiliate of NABJ, the largest organization for journalists of color in the nation.

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Contact:

Gabrielle M. Lee,

NYABJ Secretary

nyabjPR@gmail.com

Special Guest: Tanya Clare, Professional Recruiter for CNN, TBS and truTV

Lets toast to being named finalists for NABJ's Chapter of the Year!

WHERE:

250 Hudson Street Seventh Floor

New York, NY 10013

UPDATES:

Annual Scholarship and Awards Banquet

Elections

NABJ Convention

Upcoming Events

***Please RSVP HERE by Monday May 6 for the Security List***

NABJ PROFESSIONAL CHAPTER OF THE YEAR

NEW YORK CITY (April 19, 2013) - The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced that the New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) is one of three finalists for NABJ's Professional Chapter of the Year Award.

"We are honored to be recognized by NABJ as one of the top chapters in the organization," said President Michael J. Feeney. "We have worked hard to revitalize the chapter and provide quality programming and activities, not only for our members but also for the community."

Over the past year, the chapter has grown to more than 140 active members and has hosted numerous professional development, networking and community events. Keeping true to its purpose of honoring pioneers in journalism and grooming the next generation, the chapter has honored industry trailblazers such as former WNBC anchor Sue Simmons and has also hosted FIRST TAKE, a free eight-week high school journalism workshop that trains students in the tri-state area in reporting and producing stories in multimedia formats under the tutelage of NYC's top journalists.

"This wouldn't be possible without our dedicated members, supporters and of course, the entire executive board of NYABJ. We couldn't have achieved this without you," added Feeney, who is also a reporter for the New York Daily News.

Board members include: Cheryl Wills, V.P. of Broadcast and anchor for New York 1 News; Cyril Josh Barker, V.P. of Print and reporter for the New York Amsterdam News; Gabrielle Lee, Secretary and media strategist at Fleishman-Hillard, Christina Carrega, Deputy Secretary and reporter at the New York Post; Dwight Ostricher, Treasurer and copy editor at Dow Jones Newswires; Nekesa Moody, Deputy Treasurer and Global Entertainment and Lifestyles Editor at the Associated Press; Madison Joe Gray, Parliamentarian and home page producer at Time.com; and Wendy Wilson, Member-at-Large and News Editor at ESSENCE magazine.

The NABJ Chapter of the Year award is based on the accomplishments during the eligibility period. The criteria include, but are not limited to, the number of new members who joined the chapter and NABJ, and the chapter's community activities and programs.

We would like to thank all of our members for their support at of our events and meetings.

We would also like to send congratulations to the other chapter finalists, Atlanta and Washington D.C.

The winner will be announced during NABJ's 38th Annual Convention and Career Fair will take place July 31 – August 4, 2013 at the Gaylord Palms Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center.

For more information on the convention and to view the press release with details about the other chapters, click HERE

During that period, the Program Committee co-chairs were introduced to Audrey Edwards, one of NYABJ's founders. We were thrilled at the timing -- because we've been wanting to shout out our current and former members who possess what our Bylaws Committee affectionately refers to as “institutional memory”: those who were there in the early days and can share valuable information about our chapter’s history. (This is especially important since NYABJ has just completed its first year as a re-branded organization with many new and younger members.)

Our March 26 mixer will be the first of our events with a "Throwback" moment where we can meet, greet, and appreciate those trailblazers who have contributed to NYABJ's organizational history.

Please RSVP: http://nyabjtrailblazers.eventbrite.com

Our special guests will be:

Robert S. Anthony

ROBERT ANTHONY, past NYABJ parliamentarian

Robert S. Anthony, who served multiple terms as NYABJ’s parliamentarian, is a veteran technology and consumer electronics journalist and a travel writer. He has worked as a reporter for the old Milwaukee Sentinel, as the senior writer for PC Magazine and as a copy editor for the New York Daily News. He now writes freelance features for Black Enterprise, PC World, The New York Daily News, The Network Journal and other print and online publications. His Paper PC Picks hot products board on Pinterest (www.paperpcpicks.com) is now one of the most popular in the world with more than 1.3 million followers. On Twitter he’s @newyorkbob.

Audrey Edwards

AUDREY EDWARDS, founding member of NYABJ and past NABJ regional director

Audrey Edwards is a contributing writer for Essence as well as its former Editor and Executive Editor. She has also held positions of Vice President and Executive Editor at Black Enterprise magazine; Senior Editor at Family Circle and More magazines; reporter and editor at Fairchild Publications; and editor of the Urban Center at Columbia University. Ms. Edwards’ work has been published in Vibe; O, The Oprah Magazine; the New York Times Sunday Magazine; the Columbia Journalism Review; and Essence, More, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal and Glamour magazines, among others. She is the co-author of Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success, published by Doubleday in 1992, as well as four children’s books. She has taught magazine writing and magazine editing at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and New York University, respectively.

In 1989, Ms. Edwards received NYABJ’s Excellence Award for Magazine Feature Writing. For the past two decades Ms. Edwards has also divided her freelance journalism career with being a real estate broker. She ran her own company, Plaza Properties, in Brooklyn, New York, for 20 years before joining the white-shoe real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens in 2008 as an Associate Broker. In 2011 she was made a Vice President and Director.

Patrick Riley

PATRICK RILEY, past NYABJ vice president, Broadcast

As an independent producer, personality, and writer for over a decade, Patrick is a multi-media journalist with a concentration on entertainment and pop culture. His clients have included Harpo Productions, OWN, cnn.com, NBC, BET, American Heart Association, The Wendy Williams Show, Anderson Cooper, New York Public Radio/The Greene Space, AT&T, ESPN, Remy Martin, Comcast, and HBO. NYABJ has honored Patrick at its annual Trailblazer Awards ceremony with its “Volunteer of the Year” Award. Patrick is immediate past chair of NABJ’s Arts & Entertainment Task Force, and has served on the Board of Directors for NABJ, as well as the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists.

Lena Sherrod

LENA SHERROD, NYABJ co-founder, past treasurer

Lena Sherrod, former finance and careers editor at Essence magazine (retired), currently serves as executive director/curator of the Shrine of the Masters Jazz Gallery/Home of the Lee Morgan Legacy Exhibit.  A founding member/treasurer of NYABJ, prior to joining Essence, she worked at several magazines and newspapers as a reporter, copy editor, business/consumer writer, editor; served as editor/project coordinator at the National Urban League and editorial director at The People’s Institute for Economics (PIE); and was founder/president of the Smart-One Scholars (SOS) Program, an educational enrichment project that provides financial incentives to students in grades K-college to encourage academic excellence.

Eric V. Tait

ERIC V. TAIT, past NYABJ president; founder/current co-chair of NYABJ’s Media Watch Committee

A veteran broadcast journalist and documentarian whose credits include ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, and 20/20. He is the executive producer/director of the original multiple award-winning “Then I’ll Be Free To Travel Home” video documentary. Among other documentaries Mr. Tait has produced and directed, the following have aired on PBS: Across The River with Hedrick Smith, Fire In Their Eyes, and The Legacy of Maggie's American Dream. He was NYABJ’s 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award in Broadcasting Honoree.

“Throwback Tuesday”

Mixer

Meet, Greet, and Appreciate Our NYABJ Trailblazers

 Tuesday, March 26, 2013

from 6 PM to 9 PM

Salon Millesime at The Carlton Hotel

88 Madison Avenue

(between 27th and 28th Streets)

New York, New York

Meet, greet, and celebrate our special guests who have contributed to NYABJ's organizational history! We will enjoy a brief presentation from each guest.

SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE:

Robert Anthony, former NYABJ parliamentarian

Audrey Edwards, NYABJ co-founder

Patrick Riley, former NYABJ v-p, broadcast

Lena Sherrod, NYABJ co-founder, treasurer

Eric V. Tait, former NYABJ president

Please RSVP: http://nyabjtrailblazers.eventbrite.com

   March General Body Meeting

from 6:30 to 8:30 PM

at

The News Corporation offices

1211 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10036 

Updates:

 Annual Awards and Scholarship Banquet

Annoncement of the Member-At-Large

Upcoming Events

Membership Updates

Election Committee

*** PLEASE RSVP BEFORE MARCH 22 AT 5 PM FOR THE SECURITY LIST***

The New York Association of Black Journalists invites you to join us as we honor the best and brightest in journalism.

The New York Association of Black Journalists Presents Our Annual Awards and Scholarship Dinner.

Join NYABJ as we

Celebrate the late WNBC legend, Bob Teague

Honor NYABJ's Lifetime Achievement Award nominee, Randall Pinkston of CBS News

Enjoy live entertainment from Rhonda Ross

Present scholarships to high school seniors and NYABJ's First Take program graduates, Ashley Johnson and Jeremy Valle

As well as honor journalism professionals from Television, Radio, Print and Online.

Tuesday May 14, 2013
6 to 9 pm

Time-Life Building
1271 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

$50 Early-Bird Special until May 1 for NYABJ MEMBERS ONLY!!!
After May 1, members must pay full $75 ticket price
$75 General Admission for non-members and guests
$35 NABJ Student Members

Tickets are SOLD OUT!