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This article appeared in the November 15, 2004 edition of The Nation.

October 28, 2004

The Nation Institute is pleased to announce the first Alfred A. Knobler Journalism Fellow. She is Pamela Newkirk, an associate professor of journalism at New York University and the author of Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media, which received the 2001 National Press Club Award for media criticism. A member of the Newsday team that won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot reporting, she's written on the media and African-American art and culture for publications including The Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post and Artnews. She lectures widely on media diversity and was the editor of A Love No Less: More Than Two Centuries of African American Love Letters.

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