| Summary: | Journalist Clarence Waldron was born on November 24, 1957. He graduated from the Columbia College of Columbia University with his B.A. degree in English Literature in 1979; and received his M.S. degree in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1980. From 1982 until 2011, Waldron worked for the Johnson Publishing Company, where he was a senior editor and writer for JET magazine. He conducted interviews and wrote stories on numerous celebrities, including President Barack Obama, Aretha Franklin, Maya Angelou, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Jesse Jackson, and Dionne Warwick, among others. Waldron was also a contributing editor to Ebony, Ebony Man, and JET magazine; and, in 2012, he founded CW Media. In addition, he served as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University and Columbia College Chicago. Waldron received the Legacy Award from the National Association of Black Journalists in 2010, and was cited as "the dean of arts and entertainment journalists".
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