Recently I was introduced to a young journalist, who naturally asked the quintessential networking question: Do you have a business card? For many years I was on the opposite end of that question, asking anyone whom I felt was in a position I wanted to be, or had the power to plug me in, for [...]
In February 2007, I quit my job as News Editor of The Source, where I had worked for two roller coaster years. I had no job lined up. Instead I launched Journalisticks, an online community for journalists of color. The site was my love child. I manned it solo and with limited web knowledge. In [...]
Yesterday’s news of the Illest Men’s Magazine folding hit the urban street market like crack in the ’80s. Everyone was tweeting about it, blasts went out on the radio, flags were lowered. I got some great checks from KING and have worked with many of its staffers over the years. I believe the bulk of [...]
