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Former NABJ President Pressley to Receive AABJ's 'Pioneer' Award

By The Atlanta Association of Black Journalists

Media Institute Chair Cindy George gives opening remarks at the White House.

She has been a fixture in Atlanta's radio news scene for more than a quarter century. Now, Condace Pressley will be honored by her peers as she joins a choice group of journalists known as "Pioneers.”

Members of the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists chose Pressley for the high honor among an elite slate of nominees. She will receive the recognition during the 30th Pioneer Black Journalist Awards on July 29, 2012.

PHOTO: Former NABJ President Condace Pressley.

Pressley, who is a native of metro Atlanta, says that she always knew she wanted to be in news. She has been an active member of the Atlanta journalism community since she graduated from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 1986. And anyone who has heard her melodic speaking voice could guess that radio would be her passion.

The award-winning journalist is currently the assistant program director for News/Talk WSB and is credited with shaping news and programming at the station.

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NABJ President Visits Grambling State University

Special to NABJ: By Azania Briggs, Grambling State University Student

PHOTO: NABJ President Gregory Lee Jr. and former NABJ President and Grambling State UniversityJournalism Professor Will Sutton.

Hot topics in the sports media world like Jeremy Lin and the Saints bounty were addressed in an open session, regarding sports scandals and African- American journalists, to offer more insight into the competitive culture.

Gregory Lee Jr., the National Association of Black Journalists president, who expanded on issues concerning bias in the media and journalistic ethics, held the session. His visit is part of a cooperative effort with the Donald W. Reynolds Center Visiting Business Journalism Professor Program to bring in media professionals to assist with training students involved in the Department of Mass Communication at Grambling State University.

The senior assistant sports editor for the Boston Globe took center stage in a large room adorned with square floor tiles and circular tables to face a crowd of eager attendants, including student media and faculty from various institutions, who listened to Lee’s speech on Monday at 5 p.m. in the Washington-Johnson Complex.

Lee, a former editor at the Washington Post, informed the audience about the media’s portrayal of public figuresi n relevance to athletes such as Allen Iverson, Michael Vick and Jeremy Lin.

The NABJ president noted how the overinflated story of Lin, the Asian sensation that came off the bench, put a spotlight on a task that Black NBA players are expected to do. .

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NABJ Congratulates Gregory Moore on Election as

Pulitzer Prize Board Co-Chairman

PHOTO: Denver Post Editor, Gregory Moore

NABJ Member, Gregory Moore, editor of The Denver Post, and Thomas L. Friedman, bestselling author and foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, have been elected co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Both have served on the board since 2004. They replace co-chairs Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans; Kathleen Carroll, executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press; and Ann Marie Lipinski, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Board members serve a maximum of nine years while a chair serves for only one year.

The new co-chairs will share responsibilities over the course of the year. Moore has been editor of The Post since coming to Denver in June 2002. He joined the newspaper after 16 years at The Boston Globe, the last eight as managing editor.

A Cleveland native, Moore graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1976 with a degree in journalism and political science. Later that year, he became a reporter for the Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald and covered a number of beats, including city hall. In 1980, Moore returned to Cleveland, where he spent six years and covered county and city government before being named state political editor and then day city editor for the Plain Dealer.

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