Cheryl Smith

Cheryl is the publisher and editor of I Messenger Media, which
includes the Texas Metro News, Garland Journal and I Messenger.
She also hosts the radio talk show, Cheryl’s World, on Blog Talk
Radio. Before founding I Messenger Media in 2011, she was a host of
PAX-TV’s “The Ester Davis Show” and a producer and talk-show host
at KKDA-AM. She had stints at Capital Outlook News and The Dallas
Weekly.
Currently, Cheryl is treasurer of the National Newspaper Publishers
Associationand also a member of the International Women’s Forum.
She served as a former secretary and regional director of the
National Association of Black Journalists, former board member of
the Society of Professional Journalists and Society of Professional
Journalists Foundation, and a past president of the Dallas-Fort
Worth Association of Black Journalists.
She has won numerous awards, including the Barry Bingham Sr.
Award from the National Conference of Editorial Writers and is a
NABJ Hall of Fame inductee. A graduate of Florida A&M University,
she has been honored this year with the Thelma T. Gorham
Distinguished Alumni Award.