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White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor to Take Over as Host of “Washington Week” on PBS

White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor to Take Over as Host of “Washington Week” on PBS

By goodblacknews on May 4, 2021

Yamiche Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS NewsHour, will take over as moderator for PBS’ current affairs show Washington Week, a position once held by the late, great journalist Gwen Ifill, who for a time was Alcindor’s mentor.

Alcindor, 34, will helm her first show this Friday, succeeding Robert Costa, who took over in 2017 and left the show earlier this year.

Regarding her new position, the New York Times quotes Alcindor as saying, “I know how much ‘Washington Week’ meant to Gwen, and how much she put her stamp on the legacy of the show. I also feel this incredible responsibility to think deeply about taking this on and making it a show that people want to watch, that people will feel is living up to its great legacy.”

Alcindor will continue to cover the Biden administration for NewsHour, as well as remaining  a contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/business/media/yamiche-alcindor-washington-week-pbs.html

CNN’s Abby Phillip to Become Network’s Senior Political Correspondent and New Anchor of “Inside Politics Sunday”

CNN’s Abby Phillip to Become Network’s Senior Political Correspondent and New Anchor of “Inside Politics Sunday”

By goodblacknews on January 11, 2021

Journalist and political commentator Abby Phillip will become the anchor of CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday” from 8-9 a.m. ET on Sundays, beginning January 24th. Harvard grad Phillip has also been named the network’s senior political correspondent.

Phillip’s new roles at the news network were announced among several other changes to the anchor line-up for its Washington-based programs. Phillip will take over for anchor John King, who will continue to host “Inside Politics with John King” weekdays from 12-1 p.m. ET.

Beginning in April, Jake Tapper’s program The Lead with Jake Tapper will expand to 4-6 p.m. ET nightly. In addition, he will continue in his role on Sunday mornings, now co-anchoring State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. He will also serve as the network’s lead anchor for all major Washington events.

Wolf Blitzer will continue to anchor the network’s signature evening newscast, The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, now airing from 6-7 p.m. ET nightly. The program will be seen around the world, simulcast on the CNN US and CNN International networks. He will also have a principal anchor role for all major breaking news and continue to host CNN special reports.

Dana Bash has been named co-anchor of the network’s Sunday morning newsmaker show, now called State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. Tapper and Bash will each anchor two Sundays a month, beginning January 24th. In addition, Bash will continue as the network’s chief political correspondent and will also host quarterly primetime interview specials.

[Photo: Abby Phillip courtesy CNN]

Former Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy Named New Publisher of Simon & Schuster

Former Pulitzer Prize Administrator Dana Canedy Named New Publisher of Simon & Schuster

By goodblacknews on July 7, 2020

According to The New York Times, Dana Canedy was named senior vice president and publisher of its Simon & Schuster‘s named namesake imprint yesterday, one of the biggest jobs in book publishing.

To quote from nytimes.com:

Since 2017, Ms. Canedy, 55, has been the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, overseeing a period when the awards have acknowledged an increasingly diverse body of work, including the music of Kendrick Lamar.

Under Ms. Canedy’s watch, the Pulitzer board also issued a posthumous award to the pioneering Black journalist Ida B. Wells and presented a special citation along with $100,000 to The Capital Gazette, a small daily newspaper in Annapolis, Md., where five people were killed in the newsroom in 2018.

Before that, Ms. Canedy spent 20 years as a reporter and senior editor at The New York Times, where she covered business, politics, race and class. She was part of a Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for the series “How Race Is Lived in America.”

While Ms. Canedy has never worked for a publishing house, she has written a book: a memoir called A Journal for Jordan, about her partner, First Sgt. Charles M. King, and the journal he wrote for their son, Jordan, in case he did not return from the war in Iraq.

He was killed in combat there in 2006. A movie based on the book, starring Michael B. Jordan and directed by Denzel Washington, is scheduled to begin production this fall. Ms. Canedy is a producer on the film.

Ms. Canedy, who will begin her new job on July 27, said she reads books in bed late at night wearing tortoiseshell glasses fitted with tiny lights on either side, which she bought years ago so she could read in the dark when her son would sleep beside her. Jordan, now 14, affectionately calls his mother “word nerd,” she said.

“The ultimate goal of the job is to champion the work of our amazing authors,” Ms. Canedy said of her new position, “to bring in new authors, and to commission books that I and my team think are important. And basically, when you boil all that down, that means applying news judgment.”

To read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/books/dana-canedy-named-simon-schuster-publisher.html

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