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Richard Prince

Richard Prince writes "Richard Prince's Journal-isms," a three-times-a-week column on diversity issues in the news media, for the Web site of the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education (www.mije.org).

He also works part-time as a copy editor at the Washington Post, and was founding editor of Black College Wire, a news service for black college students (www.blackcollegewire.org) that aims to improve college newspapers and increase their frequency.

He chairs the Diversity Committee of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, and for many years, chaired the Media Monitoring Committee of the National Association of Black Journalists. He continues to moderate the NABJ's listserv.

Prince was an editorial writer and columnist at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., where he worked from 1979 to 1994. There, he became a founding member of the William Monroe Trotter Group, an association of African American newspaper columnists for which he helps maintain a presence on the Web. (www.trottergroup.org

 

Bobbi Bowman

Bobbi Bowman, membership/diversity director, ASNE. Bobbi began her career at The Washington Post as a suburban reporter and became an assistant city editor. She has also worked at the Detroit Free Press, USA TODAY and as the managing editor of the Observer-Dispatch, in Utica, N.Y. She writes on covering the New America for ASNE and  the Maynard Institute . She is a student of World War II, the Eighth Air Force and B-17"s. On June 6, 2009, she will be on Omaha Beach with the heroes for the 65th anniversary of D- Day. bowmanb@asne.org


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