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Farai Chideya - College Term Papers

Farai Chideya

has accomplished many things at 28 years old that many journalists can only hope to achieve. She began her career as an intern at Newsweek while studying at Harvard. After her graduation, she was hired at Newsweek as a reporter and stayed on from 1990-1994. Chideya covered news in Newsweek's New York and Chicago bureaus, as well as in the Washington bureau, where she covered national politics, from an article titled "Skewering Congressional Pork," to following President Clinton as a pool reporter on Air Force One. Soon afterward, Chideya made her transition to newswriting at MTV from 1994-1996. During this short period of time, Chideya also completed a fellowship at the Freedom Forum ...

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she was named to the New York Daily News' "Dream Team" of political reporters and commentators. She appeared on programming such as "TalkBack Live" and "CNN & Company", as well as ABC's "Nightline," CBS's "Up to the Minute," and BET's "Teen Summit" and "Town Hall Meeting on the Black Family." She saw the publishing of her new book, The Color of our Future: How the Nation's Most Diverse Generation is Reshaping American Culture., in 1997. That was also the year that she began her two current positions as an ABC News Correspondent and Editor of National Affairs at VIBE magazine. During same period, Newsweek named her to its "Century Club of 100 people to watch as we approach the year 2000." As a freelance journalist, she has written extensively about music, books and trends for The Villiage Voice and Spin, among others. On a more serious side, she has profiled white supremacists for Mademoiselle, examined child sexual abuse allegations for the Los Angeles Times and written on ...

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Added: 4/18/2005 06:48:33 AM
Category: Biographies
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 460
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