UNITY's inaugurating conference, Unity '94, was a week-long conference held at the Georgia World Congress Center. Over 6,000 minority journalists attended.[4]
unity, journalists, this, article, relies, excessively, references, primary, sources, please, improve, this, article, adding, secondary, tertiary, sources, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, july, 2010, learn, when, remove, this, message, . This article relies excessively on references to primary sources Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources Find sources UNITY Journalists news newspapers books scholar JSTOR July 2010 Learn how and when to remove this message UNITY Journalists founded as UNITY Journalists of Color and later also known as UNITY Journalists for Diversity 1 was an alliance of journalist s associations active from 1994 to 2018 UNITY served as the umbrella organization under which the groups hold a joint convention UNITY conventions were held in 1994 Atlanta 1999 Seattle 2004 Washington D C 2008 Chicago and 2012 Las Vegas 2 The four founding UNITY organizations were the National Association of Black Journalists the National Association of Hispanic Journalists the Asian American Journalists Association and the Native American Journalists Association In later years the constituent members of the alliance were the Asian American Journalists Association the Native American Journalists Association and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association 3 History editUNITY s inaugurating conference Unity 94 was a week long conference held at the Georgia World Congress Center Over 6 000 minority journalists attended 4 The first president of Unity was San Francisco Bay Area television journalist Lloyd LaCuesta David Steinberg of the San Francisco Chronicle a former president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association is president 5 NABJ left UNITY in 2011 6 and NLGJA joined later that year 7 NAHJ withdrew from the alliance in October 2013 8 The organization officially ceased operation in February 2018 9 References edit Lewis Libby 2015 The Myth of Post Racialism in Television News Routledge p 155 ISBN 978 1 317 60726 7 UNITY News student project Las Vegas NLGJA Joins UNITY Minority Journalists Meet For First Time To Gain Fairness And Power In Media Jet August 15 1994 p 14 17 UNITY elects new leader Vega Tanzina April 11 2011 Black Journalists Group Leaves Minority Coalition The New York Times NLGJA accepts invitation to join Unity NAHJ leaves its umbrella diversity group Columbia Journalism Review The death of Unity Why a collaboration between journalists of color collapsed Columbia Journalism Review Retrieved 2020 06 12 nbsp This article about an organization in the United States is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This African American related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title UNITY Journalists amp oldid 1197791413, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
