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Bryan Monroe, a Visiting Professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the CEO of The Monroe Media Group, is the former vice president and editorial director of Ebony and Jet Magazines at Johnson Publishing Co and is a regular contributor to ongoing coverage for CNN. Formerly the assistant vice president/news of Knight Ridder and the president of the National Association of Black Journalists, Bryan, who shared part of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for coverage of Hurricane Katrina, led the transformation of the legendary Ebony and Jet magazines from 2006 to 2009. He revitalized the publications as well as developed new platforms online and in digital media for JPC. He has worked on cover stories on Halle Berry, conducted the last major interview with Michael Jackson, led the historic coverage on presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle during the 2008 election, spearheaded the charge in the magazine against the N-Word and language use in a national discussion about The Culture of Disrespect. Bryan also writes regularly about technology, health and other issues and serves on the Board of Advisors for www.rrripple.com, a Silicon Valley tech startup company, and Urban Access Media Group, a Chicago-based private digital television network.
MICHAEL JACKSON
1958 - 2009
On September 25, 2007, legendary artist Michael Jackson sat down with Bryan Monroe, who was then the editorial director of Ebony Magazine, for what was to be his last major interview. For nearly two hours that morning, he spoke of his joy, his creativity, his family and his life.
In August and September of 2005, Bryan Monroe led a team into Biloxi, Miss., to help the Sun Herald cover the deadly Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Their efforts were recognized with the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
HUFFINGTON POST | 08.25.09
In the days after Jackson's June 25 death, I was inundated with questions and concerns from many who were close to the superstar throughout his life and career. They killed him, they would say to me. They finally did it. Was it the reckless administration of a potent cocktail of medicines that killed Jackson? Or was it a grueling schedule, relentless expectations and a zeal for perfection that led to his death? Or was it the artist's own penchant to get whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted, without boundaries or limits? Could anyone say "no" to the King of Pop?
Media giants like Rupert Murdoch and Arianna Huffington slugged it out on pay walls, copyrights and the prospect of Microsoft buying its way into the search world.
I, on the other hand, talked about how white the Web is, and the threat that reality represents to journalism for our increasingly diverse nation...
Wednesday afternoon at the White House Daily Press Briefing, veteran radio correspondent April Ryan was hitting press secretary Robert Gibbs hard with a line of questioning about the uninvited gate-crashers at last month's state dinner.
Ryan, who reports for American Urban Radio Networks, was trying to get at whether the high-profile White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers was working the event that night or there as an invited guest at the dinner, or both -- and trying to get a better sense of how much responsibility the social office had in the fiasco -- when her questions struck a nerve with Gibbs...
TV Guide network features Monroe in MJ special
And sitting on his desk, next to his cup of coffee and stack of manila folders, was a prototype of a thin - about an inch thick - electronic tablet that was poised to revolutionize the print media....
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Now where are those "righteous gangstas" when he needs them?....
On the CNN set with Anderson Cooper and Soledad O’Brien during the live broadcast of the Michael Jackson memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
