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Updated: Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Published: Tuesday, June 6, 2006 |
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NABJ names Wynn Freeman as next Executive Director; association veteran to lead national office
Following a national search, the National Association of Black Journalists has named veteran association manager Karen Wynn Freeman as its new executive director.
As the associations chief operating executive, she will lead the 10-person national office staff based in Adelphi, Md. and be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the organization.
Wynn Freeman, of Fairfax, Va., had previously served as co-executive director of APICS -- The Association for Operations Management -- a 45,000-member organization that specializes in production, inventory and supply chain management. An accomplished strategic planner and operational manager, she managed a $10 million annual budget and supervised a staff of 40.
Wynn Freeman was selected from a field of more than 45 applicants during a two-month national search. She succeeds Tangie Newborn, who resigned in March as NABJ's executive director after nearly six years with the organization.
We are so fortunate to have landed someone of Karens caliber and experience, said NABJ president Bryan Monroe, assistant vice president-news at Knight Ridder. With her as our executive director, NABJ has much to look forward to.
Wynn Freeman serves on the board of directors for the U.S. Chamber of Commerces Institute for Organizational Management. She earned the high-level credential Certified Association Executive (CAE) from the American Society for Association Executives and studied business administration at West Chester University.
I am excited to join such a historic organization as NABJ and look forward to the new challenges and new opportunities of journalism, the media and African Americans, said Wynn Freeman, who will start her new post on June 26. I also look forward to sharing a fun and bright future with NABJ.
Former interim executive director Joanne Lyons Wooten, who stepped in to run the association during the search and was a member of the search committee, was thrilled about the hiring of Wynn Freeman. She was at the top of my list, said Wooten. I feel that I have left NABJ in very good hands.
Other search committee members included: Monroe; Immediate Past President Herbert Lowe of Newsday; Vice President-Broadcast Barbara Ciara of WTKR-TV (Norfolk); Vice President-Print Ernie Suggs of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Secretary Sarah Glover and Parliamentarian Melanie Burney, both of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Treasurer John Yearwood of the Miami Herald.
An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation, with more than 4,100 members, and provides educational, career development and support to black journalists worldwide.
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