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Title: AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Identifier: bcah_AEJMC_Rivas_Rodriguez
Creator: Barbara Hines (interviewer)
Contributor: Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez (interviewee)
Topic: Trailblazers, Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie
Dates: 2018-08-08
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: With a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a masters from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez has more than 17 years of daily news experience. She has mostly been a reporter for the Boston Globe, WFAA-TV in Dallas and the Dallas Morning News. As a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Rivas-Rodriguez founded the Voces Oral History Project in 1999, which has videotaped interviews with over 960 Latinos/Latinas throughout the country. Rivas-Rodriguez has focused her research on the intersection of oral history and journalism, U.S. Latinos and the news media, both as producers of news and as consumers. She was on the committee that organized and founded the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 1982. Rivas-Rodriguez has received her Ph.D. as a Freedom Forum doctoral fellow from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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.

Title: AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Tom Engleman, AEJMC Trailblazers of Diversity Interview with Tom Engleman
Identifier: bcah_AEJMC_Engleman
Creator: Linda Shockley (interviewer)
Contributor: Tom Engleman (interviewee)
Topic: Trailblazers, Engleman, Tom
Dates: 2018-08-08
Resource: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications Trailblazers of Diversity collection
Description: Tom Engleman worked for his college newspaper and my college yearbook. After graduating he went into the Army for a little bit, came out, and went to graduate school of journalism at the University of South Carolina and worked for the newspaper in Columbia. Later, Engleman worked for Dow Jones newspaper and became an executive director for the Dow Jones News Fund. Engleman chose to go into the newspaper business itself to help in any small way where he continues to focus on helping to find young people to teach young people in this industry.