- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 . Boy to Man -
2 . Jim Crow Brooklyn -
3 . Political Awakening -
4 . Civil Rights, Brooklyn Style -
5 . Cooper versus Power -
6 . Schaefer Suds -
7 . One Man’s Opinion -
8 . Trans Urban News Service -
9 . TNS Shuts Down -
10 . Rising Sun -
11 . Bright, Shining Years -
12 . Nineteen Eighty-Six -
13 . Howard Beach -
14 . Arts Beat -
15 . Journalist of the Year -
16 . Tawana Brawley -
17 . Mayoral Race -
18 . Dinkins’s First Months -
19 . Crown Heights Riot -
20 . The Breakup -
21 . Setting Sun -
22 . Dusk - Epilogue
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
. Journalist of the Year
. Journalist of the Year
- Chapter:
- (p.158) 15. Journalist of the Year
- Source:
- City Son
- Author(s):
Wayne Dawkins
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter describes the coverage of the trial for the racial discrimination suit filed by four black journalists against the New York Daily News, the nation’s largest-circulation metropolitan newspaper. Because of this unprecedented trial, the stakes for the newspaper industry were high. What followed in the next nine weeks was the legal equivalent of a bloody street brawl in which character flaws on both sides would be ripped open and exposed. Nevertheless, plaintiffs David Hardy, a political reporter; Steven W. Duncan, an assistant news editor; Joan Shepard, Manhattan cultural affairs editor; and Causewell Vaughan, a copy editor, pressed on. They believed theirs was a compelling and righteous case.
Keywords: New York, Daily News, black journalists, race discrimination, David Hardy, Steven W. Duncan, Joan Shepard, Causewell Vaughan
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
-
1 . Boy to Man -
2 . Jim Crow Brooklyn -
3 . Political Awakening -
4 . Civil Rights, Brooklyn Style -
5 . Cooper versus Power -
6 . Schaefer Suds -
7 . One Man’s Opinion -
8 . Trans Urban News Service -
9 . TNS Shuts Down -
10 . Rising Sun -
11 . Bright, Shining Years -
12 . Nineteen Eighty-Six -
13 . Howard Beach -
14 . Arts Beat -
15 . Journalist of the Year -
16 . Tawana Brawley -
17 . Mayoral Race -
18 . Dinkins’s First Months -
19 . Crown Heights Riot -
20 . The Breakup -
21 . Setting Sun -
22 . Dusk - Epilogue
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates