Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Pamela Newkirk
Pamela Newkirk
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| Other authors / contributors: | Newkirk, Pamela, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2012 August 3.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Journalism professor Pamela Newkirk was born on November 13, 1957 in New York City. In 1983, Newkirk received her B.A. degree in journalism from New York University. She later obtained her M.S. degree in journalism in 2001 and her Ph.D. degree in comparative and international education in 2012 from Columbia University. Newkirk worked as a newspaper journalist between 1984 and 1993, including at the Knickerbocker News in Albany, New York. At her position at New York Newsday she won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot-news reporting of the New York City subway crash in August of 1991. In 1993, Newkirk switched to freelance journalistic work for numerous publications and started working as a professor at New York University in the department of journalism and mass communication. She wrote for The Nation and also published two books, Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media and Letters from Black America: Intimate Portraits of the African American Experience.
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