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Title: AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Mary Ann Weston, AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Mary Ann Weston
Identifier: bcah_AEJMC_Weston
Creator: Melissa Garza (interviewer)
Contributor: Mary Ann Weston (interviewee)
Topic: Trailblazers, Weston, Mary Ann
Dates: 2018-08-08
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: As a newspaper reporter and freelance writer, Weston reported for newspapers in England and for the Detroit Free Press, among others. She was a member of the Detroit Free Press staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1967 riots there. Weston has then moved on to teach multicultural issues in journalism as an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She has written multiple books focused on Native Americans in the news as well as other minority groups, such as co-editing and co-authoring the book U.S. News Coverage of Racial Minorities.

Title: AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Peter Bhatia, AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Peter Bhatia
Identifier: AEJMC_Bhatia
Creator: Rochelle Ford (interviewer)
Contributor: Peter Bhatia (interviewee)
Topic: Trailblazers, Bhatia, Peter
Dates: 2018-08-08
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: A multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning editor, Peter Bhatia has led many significant journalism advances. He is an editor and vice president of the Detroit Free Press. He has a BA in history and communication from Stanford University. Bhatia joined The Free Press in September 2017, after two years as editor and vice president of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Bhatia previously was director of the Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State's Cronkite School of Journalism. He joined the university in June 2014 as visiting professor in journalism ethics after a two-decade career at The Oregonian in Portland, where he was an editor. His resume includes helping lead newsrooms that won 10 Pulitzer Prizes, including six in Portland. He is the first journalist of South Asian descent to lead a major daily newspaper in the U.S., running The Oregonian from 2010 to 2014. Peter is a 1975 graduate of Stanford University with a BA in history and a double major in history and communication.