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Evanston, IL (August 4, 2008) Eight media executives of color have been selected as 2009 McCormick Fellows. The Fellows will attend the premier leadership programs for media executives at the Media Management Center at Northwestern University and will join the brain trust of minority media leaders begun in 1998.
The eight 2009 fellows were nominated by senior media leaders based on their professional achievements, innovative approach to the business and career potential. The 2009 Fellows are:
Michele Vernon-Chesley, Virginian-Pilot
Duchesne Drew, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, MN
Hai Do, Philadelphia Inquirer
Patricio G. Espinoza, Quepasa.com
George Figueroa, The Morning Call, Allentown, PA
Crystal Johns, CBS News
Javier Morgado, NBC News – Today Show
Estelle Parsley, WRDW-TV, Augusta, GA
The McCormick Fellows program seeks to increase both the number and impact of minority executives in the news media. It also helps Fellows individually in their careers while providing other news media leaders the benefit of the wisdom and insight the Fellows have to offer. In the process, the program adds to the critical mass of high-performing senior managers and executives of color prepared to bring the most innovative strategies to the news media's most pressing challenges.
The four 2009 Fellows who work in print, each at a daily newspaper, will attend the 2009 Advanced Executive Program. The four who work in broadcast television and digital media will attend the National Association of Broadcasting Management Development Program in July 2009.
The Fellows are selected for a one-year fellowship that begins in October with a two-day fall forum in Chicago. They join all McCormick Fellows as members of a brain trust of expertise which the program regularly taps to help the news industry better achieve diversity success.
The Fellows community of print, broadcast, cable, Internet and digital media news executives comes together online at www.McCormickFellows.org. Here members contribute their insights on current media issues available to all readers through columns and video commentaries. They also have the opportunity for open, candid conversation and opinion through blogs on the members’ area of the Website.
A total of twenty-nine minority media leaders applied for this year’s Fellowship. They hold positions in national, local and nonprofit broadcast television, Web-based news sites, magazines, daily newspapers and media marketing and consulting.
The McCormick Fellowship program is a partnership of the McCormick Foundation, the Media Management Center, the National Association of Multicultural Media Executives Foundation and the National Association of Broadcasters. Some 90 media executives have completed the one-year program since its 1998 inception.
The McCormick Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to making life better for our children, communities and country. Through its charitable grant making programs, Cantigny Park and Golf, Cantigny First Division Foundation and the McCormick Freedom Museum, the Foundation is able to positively impact people’s lives and stay true to its mission of advancing the ideals of a free, democratic society.
The Media Management Center accelerates the business success of media companies and the professional growth of media executives through its executive education programs, ground-breaking research, world-class faculty, and ongoing work with media companies worldwide. It is affiliated with the Kellogg School of Management and the Medill School at Northwestern University.
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