| 词条 | Vernon Jarrett |
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BiographyJarrett was born in Saulsbury, Tennessee; his parents were schoolteachers.[4] He attended Knoxville College in Tennessee on a football scholarship,[5] and graduated with a bachelor's in history and sociology in 1941.[6][7][8] He moved to Chicago in 1946 and began his journalism career at the Chicago Defender.[2] In his first assignment for the Defender, he covered a race riot.[2] He also worked for the Associated Negro Press during the 1940s.[3] For three years beginning in 1948 he partnered with composer Oscar Brown, Jr. to produce Negro Newsfront, the first daily radio news broadcast in the United States to be created by African Americans.[3] Jarrett was the first African American to be a syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune, beginning in 1970.[2] During his years at the Tribune, he also was a host on Chicago's ABC-TV station, WLS, where he produced nearly 2,000 television broadcasts.[3] In 1983, he left the Tribune for the Chicago Sun-Times as an op-ed columnist.[2][3] He later became a member of the Sun-Times editorial board, and retired from the Sun-Times in 1995.[2] A founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, he served as its second president.[2] He was the father-in-law to President Barack Obama's close adviser Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett died from cancer in Chicago on May 23, 2004.[2] LegacyIn 1974, Jarrett established the ACT-SO program for the Chicago NAACP. He soon realized it should be made a national program and worked to have the national NAACP adopt it and help to foster it nationwide. As of 2016, over 200,000 students from across the country have participated in the competition. The Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence is awarded annually by the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to honor "outstanding coverage of people of African descent and the issues that impact their lives."[9] Jarrett also began the ACT-SO program to assist inner-city youth in academic fields and shine a light on them for achievement in these areas. Notes1. ^Jarrett's year of birth according to 1920 United States Census is 1918. Conflicting reports of 1921, for instance in {{cite book |first=Sam G. |last=Riley |title=Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists |location= |publisher=Greenwood |year=1995 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7kT7EDFakAC&pg=PA148 |page=148 |postscript=none }}, are most likely erroneous. 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53239-2004May24.html Vernon Jarrett, 84; Journalist, Crusader], The Washington Post, May 25, 2004. 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web |title=Vernon Jarrett Biography |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=12&category=MediaMakers |work=The HistoryMakers website |archivedate=July 6, 2004 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040706020330/http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=12&category=mediaMakers }} 4. ^{{cite book |first=Henry Louis, Jr. |last=Gates |first2=Evelyn Brooks |last2=Higginbotham |title=African American National Biography |location= |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2008 |isbn= |page=503 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AyoOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA503 }} 5. ^{{cite book |first=Lisa C. |last=Coleman |title=Hardeman County |location= |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |year=2012 |isbn= |page=99 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hA6xvV8zDisC&pg=PA99 }} 6. ^{{cite book |first=Meyer L. |last=Stein |title=Blacks in Communications: Journalism, Public Relations, and Advertising |location= |publisher=J. Messner |year=1972 |page=58 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wx8cAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA58 }} 7. ^{{cite book |first=Jessie Carney |last=Smith |title=Handy African American History Answer Book |location= |publisher=Visible Ink Press |year=2014 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6nyDBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA154 }} 8. ^[https://www.chipublib.org/fa-vernon-jarrett-videotape-collection-2/ "Vernon Jarrett Videotape Collection".] 9. ^Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence, Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies website (North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University) References{{Reflist|30em}}External links
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