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Lobbying for increasing black presence in newsroomsBy Regine Labossiere Monitor Staff Bryan Monroe is running for re-election for vice president of print. If elected, Monroe says he wants to put pressure on newsroom recruiters to increase the hiring and promotion of blacks in newsrooms. As vice president of news at Knight Ridder, he is the company's second highest-ranking news executive. He has spent 16 years at various Knight Ridder papers - he was deputy managing editor at San Jose Mercury News. Monroe is a former Bay Area chapter president. He was also a chairman of the Society of Newspapers Design Diversity Committee. He is a member of 100 Black Men of Silicon Valley, Inc., a mentoring and leadership group of African-American civic leaders. This year, he completed a Nieman fellowship at Harvard University, focusing on issues of leadership and creativity. Monroe was recognized by Presstime magazine as one of the 20 top American journalists under 40 and was named by Mediaweek magazine as one of the nation's "media elite." Monroe was invited to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, to consult and speak to Australian editors about American journalism. In 1994, he was invited to Johannesburg, South Africa, to speak at the South African Institute for Journalism and cover Nelson Mandela's historic election there. He is also a regular visiting lecturer at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla. Monroe graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a degree in communications. He has worked at The Sun (S.C.) News, The Seattle Times, the Roanoke Times & World News, and United Press International. |
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