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Simeon Booker, the legendary Washington bureau chief for Jet magazine for 53 years, chronicled his amazing career with his wife and fellow journalist Carol Booker in Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement (2013). Booker likes to say he was “on the frontlines of virtually ever major event of the revolution that transformed America” in the last century.

Javier Garza is an ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow based in Mexico City. He focuses on digital security for journalists. This post originally appeared on Knight International Media Innovators, where ICFJ Knight Fellows and their colleagues in the field share the lessons they learn as they reinvent global journalism. The blog is part of the IJNet website, which delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and citizen journalists worldwide. It is produced by the International Center for Journalists in Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Charles Robinson III is an award winning journalist who works in television, radio, and print. Since 2001 he has served Maryland Public Television as a political reporter for State Circle. Currently he is the associate producer on the MPT's Hard Working Families series, which recently won a CINE Golden Eagle award. He also serves as a business correspondent for MPT’s Your Money and Business. He also blogs at Charles Black Politics. He has covered the impact of the Rodney King verdict; the story behind the monument to the Amistad revolt; the history of the Buffalo Soldiers, and the Million Man March. His coverage of Nelson Mandela's first trip to the United States won him an award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Robinson was also NABJ Region II Director (2009-2011), and is a former president of the Association of Black Journalists. Robinson was also NABJ Region II Director (2009-2011), and is a former president of the Association of Black Media Workers (ABMW), the Baltimore NABJ Chapter.

E.R. Shipp is an associate professor and journalist in residence at Morgan State University. Shipp 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 before joining Morgan.

Patricia Wheeler is an assistant professor in the Department of Strategic Communications at Morgan State University. Wheeler started her career as a reporter and producer for television and radio stations in Richmond, VA, Portland, OR and Baltimore, MD. She has managed her own marketing communications business providing strategic planning, media relations, crisis communications, media training, advertising, and market research services to such clients as the BGE, National League of Cities, Grameen Foundation, and OMB Watch. She has won several national awards including two Silver Inkwells and several awards from the National School Board Public Relations Association and the Association of Educational Publishers.

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