Oral history of pioneer black journalists published
Wallace Terry was a journalist back when journalism was still a respected profession. He died in 2003, after a distinguished career reporting and writing for The Washington Post and Time magazine.
It is tempting to refer to Terry as a "pioneering" journalist because he entered the business when few black or other non-white journalists did much more than fetch copy or coffee at big news outfits. But Terry survived (and thrived) in no small part because others like him had gone before; he knew they had succeeded and was confident enough to believe that he would as well. His "Missing Pages," published posthumously, is a collection of oral histories -- from former ABC anchor Max Robinson, columnist Ethel Payne, former Post columnist William Raspberry and others -- that bridges three generations of black journalists. Together, such luminaries can accurately be described as pioneers.
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It is tempting to refer to Terry as a "pioneering" journalist because he entered the business when few black or other non-white journalists did much more than fetch copy or coffee at big news outfits. But Terry survived (and thrived) in no small part because others like him had gone before; he knew they had succeeded and was confident enough to believe that he would as well. His "Missing Pages," published posthumously, is a collection of oral histories -- from former ABC anchor Max Robinson, columnist Ethel Payne, former Post columnist William Raspberry and others -- that bridges three generations of black journalists. Together, such luminaries can accurately be described as pioneers.