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Pam Newkirk

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Pamela Newkirk, a former daily journalist, is an associate professor of journalism at New York University where she is director of the Urban Journalism Workshop. She is the author of Within the Veil Black Journalists, White Media (New York University, 2000), which won the 2001 National Press Club Award for media criticism. She more recently edited A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African-American Letters, (Doubleday, 2003) and is in the process of completing African American Life in Letters which is scheduled to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008.

Newkirk was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News at New York Newsday in 1992 and won the New York Association of Black Journalists International Reporting Prize in 1990. She is a board member of the Annenberg Commission on the Press. Newkirk is in the process of completing African American Life in Letters which is scheduled to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2008. Her articles on the media and African American art and culture have appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation and Artnews.

Selected Articles and Appearances:

Katrina. The Media. And Race

Radio Show | Radio Nation | September 13, 2005

Guess Who's Leaving The Newsrooms? Too Many Journalists of Color Don't Stick Around. Why?
Article | The Columbia Journalism Review | September/October 2000

Ida B. Wells-Barnett; Journalism as a Weapon Against Racial Bigotry
Paper | Media Studies Journal | Spring/Summer 2000

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Salvation Boulevard

A novel

By Larry Beinhart

From the Edgar Award-winning novelist and author of Wag the Dog and The Librarian comes a new mystery novel about a private investigator and a case that tests his courage, character and soul. The victim is an atheist professor, the main suspect—who has confessed and is in custody—a Muslim foreign student, the defense attorney a Jew and the detective a born-again Christian. The New York Times says of Beinhart, "The man can really write."

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Clive Stafford Smith on PBS Documentary

October 16 - November 20 | PBS Affiliates
Watch Nation Books author Clive Stafford Smith in a new PBS documentary, Torturing Democracy. Stafford Smith is the author of Eight o' Clock Ferry to the Windward Side and founder of the legal charity, Reprieve, whose clients include prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

November 23 | 10 am
Amy Alexander at Watergate Conference
(Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.)
Listen to Institute Fellow Amy Alexander talk with fellow panelists about how bloggers are changing politics. This event is part of the National Association of Black Journalists' Watergate Conference on Political and Congressional Reporting: Did Politics Change the Media or Did Media Change Politics? MORE

December 7 | 4 pm
Gary Younge Pays Tribute to Studs Terkel
(Great Hall, Cooper Union, NYC)
Institute Fellow Gary Younge will be one of the luminaries paying tribute to the life of legendary oral historian and activist Studs Terkel, who died on October 31 at the age of 96. The event will be open to the public and free of charge. MORE

December 8
The Nation Institute Annual Dinner Gala
(Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC)
The Nation Institute's Annual Gala Dinner is Monday, December 8 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York. Special guests include Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood; comedian Lewis Black; and Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation. MORE

January 15 | 8:30 am
Deepa Fernandes Wins North Star News Prize
(4 Times Square, NYC)
Institute Fellow Deepa Fernandes is one of three winners of the North Star News Prize, which recognizes people of color who have made outstanding contributions to journalism, media and communications, and public understanding of the struggle for social justice. MORE


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