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The Morgan Global Journalism Review (MGJR) is an online quarterly published by the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University. MGJR’s mission is to promote journalistic excellence and provide reporting and analysis on media and communications trends, issues and events from an international perspective.
Publisher
DeWayne Wickham
Editor
Jackie Jones
Copy Editors
Denise Cabrera
Karen Houppert
Milton Kent
E.R. Shipp
Ron Taylor
Designer
Sherry Poole Clark
Technical Support
Christopher Green
Webmaster
Henry McEachnie
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Morgan Global Journalism Review
Email: [email protected]
Morgan State University, Communication Center 363 Baltimore, MD 21251
Phone: 443-885-3502
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Dean's Corner
DeWayne Wickham, dean, School of Global Journalism & Communication
Letter from the EDitor
Jackie Jones, assoc. professor, editor, MGJR
In The Presidency in Black and White, April Ryan, a Morgan State University
alumna and a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks
provides a behind-the-scenes look at the role of race relations played in the
presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Michel du Cille: Documenting Lives with Dignity
Michel du Cille, who died while covering the Ebola crisis in Liberia earlier this year,
wrote that as a journalist it was “profoundly difficult not to be a feeling human being while covering the Ebola crisis. Indeed, one has to feel compassion and, above all, try to show respect.” That was exactly what he did, with compelling results. The story following his first visit to Liberia to cover the epidemic is reprinted with permission from The Washington Post.
The Truth about Epidemics and Black People
Lawrence Brown, PhD., an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management- Environmental Health Sciences at Morgan State University’s School of Community Health and Policy, writes about what it would take to prevent a future Ebola crisis,
SPECIAL REPORT - Riding the Roller Coaster with Marion Barry: Three journalists chronicle their relationships with the late three-time mayor of Washington, D.C., who was known as an activist, a public official and, forever, as the mayor caught smoking crack in an FBI sting operation:
Marion Barry: My Prince, My Source
Hamil Harris of The Washington Post walked a fine line between friend and source in covering Barry.
27 Months in the Eye of the Storm
John C. White left the newsroom and ended up on a wild ride as Barry’s press secretary.
Tracking the Mayor-for-Life
Adrienne Washington, a former columnist and political reporter, considered Barry, often dubbed “mayor for life,” a gift that kept on giving.
Paula Madison: Tracing Roots from Harlem to China
E.R. Shipp writes about former NBC network executive Paula Madison, an accomplished force of nature, who turned her Jamaican mother’s desire to learn what happened to her father who left her as a young child into a journey that led to China.
Alice Dunningan: Pioneer of the National Black Press
Writer and editor Carol Booker describes what inspired her to edit and re-release the autobiography of the woman who was Washington correspondent for the Associated Negro Press (ANP) news service from 1947 to 1961.
Pages from the Archives
Gone With the Wind was a cinematic blockbuster when it debuted in1939, but many black journalists feared the film would harm black people and set race relations back in much
the same way that they were harmed by Birth of a Nation, which purported to depict an accurate rendering of the South in the era of slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction.