PANEL DISCUSSION | FEB. 27, 1:00pm ET Journal-isms Roundtable and NPPA join forces for panel discussion featuring photojournalists of color (National Press Photographers Association)
PANEL DISCUSSION | FEB. 27, 1:00pm ET
Journal-isms Roundtable and NPPA join forces for panel discussion featuring photojournalists of color
(National Press Photographers Association)
Sunday, Feb. 27, 1:00pm ET
Panelists include (clockwise from top left):
Marie d. De Jesús, staff photojournalist at the Houston Chronicle and president of the National Press Photographers Association.
Monica Herndon, staff photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer and part of its “Wildest Dreams'' project, and chair of National Association Black Journalists Visual Task Force.
Carl Juste, veteran staff photojournalist for the Miami Herald and founder of the Iris PhotoCollective.
Chester Higgins, former staff photojournalist for The New York Times.
Eugene Tapahe, Navaho, designer, artist and photographer, specializes in the landscape and Indigenous people of the Southwest.
Hyungwon Kang, a former photojournalist and photo editor for the Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and Reuters, preparing his second coffee table book on the history of Korea.
The discussion will center on the impact of new technology on photojournalism, their experiences as photojournalists of color and why so few photographers of color are working in major news media outlets. They will also discuss the need to increase diversity in visuals staffing and newsroom leadership.
In advance of the panel discussion, photojournalist Chester Higgins, formerly of The New York Times, will present and discuss his latest book “Sacred Nile.”
This Roundtable is co-sponsored by the NPPA. Journal-isms is a partner of the American University School of Communication.
Watch via simulcast on Facebook Live, on the "Richard Prince's Journal-isms" Facebook page.
The Journal-isms Roundtable is a group of more than 50 current and former journalists, authors and editors that meets every month, usually for Sunday brunch. Since 1999, the group, led by Journal-isms™ founder and journalist Richard Prince and veteran journalists Paul Delaney, Betty Anne Williams and Ivan Roman, have hosted journalists, newsmakers and other personalities to have lively, informative and sometimes provocative conversations.
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