Below are the names of the 44 courageous and visionary men and women (and where they worked at the time) who gathered to form NABJ.
NABJ was founded on December 12, 1975, in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park (formerly Sheraton Park Hotel).
Our Founders represent various news and media platforms and disciplines from across the U.S.
Click here to view the Founders’ original signatures from NABJ’s first gathering.
Click here to donate to our upcoming 50th anniversary fund.
Click here to donate and support their vision and our mission via our scholarships and programming.
Norma Adams-Wade
Dallas Morning News
Carole Bartel
CORE Magazine
Edward Blackwell (Deceased)
Milwaukee Journal
Paul Brock (Deceased)
Founding Executive Director
Reginald Bryant (Deceased)
Black Perspective on the News
Maureen Bunyan
WTOP-TV - Washington, D.C.
Crispin Campbell
WNET-TV - New York
Charlie Cobb
WHUR Radio - Washington, D.C.
Marilyn Darling
WHYY-TV, Wilmington, Del.
Leon Dash
The Washington Post
Joe Davidson
Philadelphia Bulletin
Allison J. Davis
WBZ-TV Boston
Paul Delaney
The New York Times
William Dilday (Deceased)
WLBT-TV
Sandra Dillard
Denver Post
Joel Dreyfuss
The Washington Post
Sam Ford
WCCO-TV Minneapolis
David Gibson
Mutual Black Network
Sandra Gilliam-Beale
WHIO-TV Dayton, Ohio
Bob Greenlee (Deceased)
New Haven Register
Martha Griffin
National Public Radio
Derwood Hall (Deceased)
WSOC-TV Charlotte
Bob Hayes
San Francisco Examiner
Vernon Jarrett (Deceased)
Chicago Tribune
Mal Johnson (Deceased)
Cox Broadcasting
Toni Jones
Detroit Free Press
H. Chuku Lee
Africa Journal Ltd.
Claude Lewis (Deceased)
Philadelphia Bulletin
Sandra Dawson Long Weaver
News Journal Wilmington, Del.
Pluria Marshall
Freelancer
Acel Moore (Deceased)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Luix Overbea (Deceased)
Christian Science Monitor
Les Payne (Deceased)
Newsday
Claudia Polley
NBC
Alex Poinsett (Deceased)
Ebony Magazine
Richard Rambeau
Project Bait, Detroit
Max Robinson (Deceased)
WTOP-TV Washington, D.C.
Chuck Stone (Deceased)
Philadelphia Daily News
W. Curtis Riddle
Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal
Jeannye Thornton
U.S. News & World Report
Francis Ward
Los Angeles Times
Charlotte Roy
Detroit Free Press
Vince Sanders (Deceased)
National Black Network
John C. White (Deceased)
Washington Star
DeWayne Wickham
The Baltimore Sun
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