As a Black and Latina woman working for The Daily Mail as a reporter and correspondent, Kayla Brantley ’17 discusses her experiences in the newsroom, ways the media industry can become more diverse, and how the public can contribute to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Parrish covered the coronavirus pandemic for WBRE-TV/WYOU-TV in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Since then, she’s accepted a new job in Cincinnati at Fox 19 as a general assignment reporter. For Parrish, who has never been busier, this is both a challenging and a thrilling time to be a reporter.
Daniel Han’s article and photographs of an event held in Newark, N.J. to protest the murder of George Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of police officers was published by TAP Into Westfield.
Jordan will begin her tenure as the new chair on July 1, 2020. Jordan studies the role of media in the lives of children and families.
During the COVID-19 outbreak, the news media has been in high demand, but the very crisis that news outlets were covering dealt a body blow to the economy and threw tens of thousands of journalists out of work.
