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Journalists; Speaker To Discuss
Life After Tweet At 2016 Banquet
The Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists (TBABJ) will honor five veteran journalists at its annual Griot Drum Awards & Scholarship Banquet. Banquet speaker Jarrett Hill is ex- pected to discuss “life after tweet.”
Dayle Greene, Larry Cotton, the Rev. Kenny Irby, Josh Thomas and Denise White will receive TBABJ’s 2016 Legacy Award at the organization’s banquet on Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Tampa Marriott Westshore, 1001 N. Westshore Blvd.
Jarrett Hill, a former Tampa journalist who is now a corre- spondent with The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles, will be the special guest. His discussion will be on life after tweet.
The Legacy Award is a tribute to trailblazing journalists who have made outstanding contributions to Tampa Bay.
DAYLE GREENE Greene came to Tampa in 1972 and became one of the first African-American on-air talents at Fox’s WTVT-Channel 13. He has the distinction of being the first Black news anchor in the area. Greene also has hosted a public affairs show for Cox Radio. He cur- rently is a career manager at the
Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance.
JARRETT HILL
Since his July 18 Twitter post noting that Melania Trump’s Republican National Convention speech was similar to one given by Michelle Obama in 2008, Jar- rett Hill’s life has not been the same.
Before his tweet at a Starbucks in Los Angeles that sent social media into a frenzy, the laid-off Tampa journalist was picking up some freelance work and running his interior design business. After the tweet, Hill was interviewed by media outlets around the world, in- cluding the BBC, CNN, Los Ange- les Times and the New York Times.
Hill, now a correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter, will talk branding tips and how he landed a dream gig during the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists’ Griot Drum Awards & Scholarship Banquet.
The cocktail hour is at 6 p. m. The dinner and the awards cere- mony will begin at 7 p. m. Tam- mie Fields, an anchor and reporter with WTSP 10 News, will be the emcee.
Tickets to the Nov. 17 banquet can be purchased at www.tbabj.com.
For more information, call (813) 419-2490, email tampabay@gmail.com, or visit www.tbabj.com.
The Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists strives to help ensure diversity in area media and accurate, balanced coverage of communities of color while serving as a resource for both established and aspiring communities of color while serving as a resource for both established and aspiring communicators.
‘Life After Tweet’
Lord, Draw Me Into A Closer Walk With You
Lord, I draw close to You today, grateful that You will draw close to me as You have promised in Your Word (James 4:8). I long to dwell in Your presence, and I want to know You in every way You can be known. Teach me what I need to learn in order to know You better. I don’t want to be a person who is always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth (2 Timothy 3:7). I want to know the truth about who You are, because I know that You are near to all who call upon You in truth (Psalm 145:18).
I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever – the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it nei- ther sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. JOHN 14:16-17
Lord, thank You for the pastors and spiritual leaders who have input into my life. Help me to glean knowledge and understanding of Your ways from them so that I can know You better. Bless them and help them to always be the men and women of God You created them to be.
I will give you shepherds according to My heart who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. JERE- MIAH 3:15
JOSH THOMAS Thomas retired from WFLA this year as an anchor and reporter. He began his broadcast career as a reporter in Rockford, Illinois, and worked as an anchor and re- porter in Peoria, Illinois; New Haven, Connecticut; Atlanta; Baltimore, Maryland; and Birmingham, Alabama. He be- came a weekend co-anchor at
WFLA in 2003.
Thomas won numerous
awards for reporting in Atlanta and Baltimore and was named the best anchor in Alabama by the Associated Press in 1997. He also has served as a visiting faculty member at Poynter In- stitute.
REV. KENNY IRBY Rev. Irby was Poynter In- stitute’s visual journalism and diversity senior faculty member
from 1995 to 2015.
In 2016, he was hired by the
City of St. Petersburg as its community intervention direc- tor. Rev. Irby also is the pas- tor of Bethel A. M. E. Church in St. Petersburg. He recently formed Men in the Making, a program that pairs boys with role models. Before joining Poynter, he worked as a photo- journalist for Newsday and media outlets in Boston and Michigan.
LARRY COTTON Cotton retired this year as WFLA-TV’s senior production cameraman and photographer. He also was a restaurant review correspondent of “Larry’s Good Eats’’ for 12 years on WFLA’s
“Daytime’’ show.
Cotton, who moved to
Tampa from Cleveland, Ohio in 1986, worked at WFLA for 28 years and has been in journalism about 40 years. His involvement with the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists started when the organization was known as the Suncoast Black Communica- tors.
DENISE WHITE
After 25 years at Fox’s WTVT- Channel 13, Denise White re- tired from her full-time position in 2015. It also marked 40 years in the broadcast industry. White left a Miami station to begin her career at Tampa’s Fox network.
She was part of the first fe- male anchor duo in Tampa Bay television. For some time in the 1990s, White was the highest- profile minority anchor in the local market and the only Black journalist anchoring a weekday evening newscast.
At the Nov. 17 banquet, TBABJ also will present awards for the best media coverage of people of color and award college scholarships to students studying journalism.
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