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Rochelle Riley is the Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. She formerly was a nationally syndicated columnist for the Detroit Free Press in Detroit, Michigan, United States. She was an advocate in her column for improved race relations, literacy, community building, and children. [1]

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Rochelle Riley grew up in Tarboro, North Carolina. She was raised in part by her grandfather Willie Bennie Pitt and grandmother Lowney Hilliard Pitt.[ citation needed ] She said in her acceptance speech at the Ida B. Wells Award that her grandmother's curiosity influenced her own curiosity about current events and their impact on our lives. [2] She has one daughter. Rochelle attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in journalism and English. In 2008, she completed a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. [3]

Career

Rochelle Riley has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN and FOX2. [4] She has worked as an editor or reporter at The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News , the Dallas Times Herald and The (Louisville) Courier-Journal . In Louisville, she was deputy managing editor, 1992–96, associate editor and columnist, 1996–2000; and from 2000 to 2019, she was a Detroit Free Press columnist. In 1985, when she was with The Dallas Morning News, she founded the DFW/ABC Urban Journalism Workshop to train minority youth to be journalists. [5]

Notable works of journalism

Her columns about former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick were a part of the entry that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in local reporting. She is also notable for her excellence in journalism and for mentoring future journalists to ensure that newsrooms reflect the diversity of their communities, which is why she won the Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists and Northwestern University. She also is known for advocating for press freedom as a member of the International Press Institute and the NABJ Global Journalism Task Force. She has spent years crusading for better lives for children, government accountability, improved race relations and increased adult literacy, by helping to raise nearly $2 million for literacy causes in Michigan. [6] [7] [8]

Context

Riley was known as one of the top African-American journalists in the United States; she has received several awards for her nationally syndicated columns. When she was named deputy managing editor of The Courier-Journal in Louisville in 1992, she was the paper's first African-American news executive.[ citation needed ]

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  1. ↑ "ABOUT ROCHELLE -". www.rochelleriley.com.
  2. ↑ "Rochelle Riley accepts award with remarks that bring down the house".
  3. ↑ "Rochelle Riley". Techonomy.
  4. 1 2 "NABJ Congratulations Rochelle Riley".
  5. ↑ "Educators, We Need Your Help!".
  6. ↑ "Weinstein response shouldn't be 'Why didn't they?' but 'Why did he?".
  7. ↑ "Start Here / Never Stop Podcast: Rochelle Riley '81".
  8. 1 2 3 "NABJ to Honor Columnist Rochelle Riley with Ida B. Wells Award - National Association of Black Journalists". www.nabj.org.
  9. ↑ "Rochelle Riley wins $75K Pulliam Fellowship; will study students and trauma".
  10. ↑ "Two Free Press journalists recognized by Hall of Fame".
  11. ↑ "Rochelle Riley - Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame". j-school.jrn.msu.edu.
  12. ↑ "Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame to induct new members".
  13. ↑ "Ex-News Reporter Mleczko, Freep Columnist Riley Named to Journalism Hall of Fame". www.deadlinedetroit.com.
  14. 1 2 3 "Rochelle Riley wins Humanitarian Award". 1 May 2011.
  15. ↑ "National Society of Newspaper Columnists coming here for their convention". 21 June 2011.
  16. ↑ "BAR Awards Profile - Rochelle Riley '81 - UNC General Alumni Association". alumni.unc.edu.
  17. ↑ "Leading journalists join IPI North American Committee board".
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