11/09/08: 365 PROJECT: ‘Blacks on Barack’

365 PROJECT: ‘Blacks on Barack’
11/09/08 Morning Edition
http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/education/article/365_project_blacks_on_barack/16152/

“I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you.” --President Elect Barack Obama’s acceptance speech
Senator Barack Obama’s presidential election win continues to send shockwaves across the African Diaspora. The presidential-elect is will be the nation’s 44th President and first Black voted into the office. The historical impact of Obama’s victory is on the minds of many African Americans around the area.

Tricities.com Reporter Nicki Mayo talks with six Blacks spanning several generations about the president-elect and what this means for American history. * ETSU Junior Ash-Lee Henderson

* Friendship Baptist Church’s Rev. C.H. Charlton

* J.C-Washington Co., TN NAACP President Ralph Davis

* ETSU Senior Indya Holloway

* ETSU Physiology Fellow Cerrone Foster, Ph.D.

* J.C. Power Board’s Robert White

RELATED ARTICLE: Obama Town Hall Ties Generations http://www.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/obama_town_hall_ties_generations ###

Nicki Mayo Resume Reel

Nicki Mayo nickimayonews@hotmail.com
-Communications Experience-
YNN Buffalo – CBS (Buffalo, NY)

Reporter/ Video Journalist 02/09 – Present

-General Assignment Reporter/ Video Journalist

WJHL Tricities.com – CBS (Tri-Cities TN/VA)
Morning Show Reporter/Content Coordinator 11/07 – 11/08
-Live General Assignment Reporter
-Tricities.com Website Content Coordinator

SNN News 6 (24 Hour News) (Sarasota, FL)
New York Times-Herald Tribune Media Group
News Reporter/Producer 10/06 – 11/07

CTV 76 (Prince George's County, MD)
News Producer/Reporter 7/05 – 10/06
Reporter (freelance) 12/01 – 07/05

Prince George’s County Public Schools (Prince George's County, MD)
Charles Flowers High School –Journalism, Speech, and Yearbook Teacher 4/04 – 07/05
-The Jaguar Gazette Newspaper Advisor

WTTG FOX 5 (Washington D.C.)
News Writer (freelance) 3/04 – 07/05
-FOX 5 Morning News overnight writer

Black Entertainment Television (Washington D.C.)
BET Nightly News w/ Jacque Reid, BET Tonight w/ Ed Gordon, BET Tonight w/ Tavis Smiley, and Lead Story
Washington Bureau Producer (freelance) 4/03 – 3/04
Production Assistant (freelance) 6/01 - 2/02
News Intern 5/00 - 8/00

WJZ TV 13 CBS (Baltimore, MD)
Associate Producer 2/02 - 2/03
-Overnight writer for "Don & Marty" Morning Edition News and Weekend Morning Edition
-Writer for 5, 6 & 11 PM newscast

WAER 88.9 National Public Radio (Syracuse, NY)
Live and General Assignment Reporter 9/97 - 5/01

WTVH 5 CBS (Syracuse, NY)
News Intern 9/99 - 5/01

University Union Television (Syracuse, NY)
C7 News Live and General Assignment Reporter 9/99 - 5/01

WMAR TV ABC 2 (Baltimore, MD)
News Intern 5/99 - 9/99

-Professional Memberships and Honors-
2007 Journalist of the Year, Sarasota Healthy Start Coalition 6/07
2006 Videographer Award, News Story “Uptown Bakery” 2/06
National Association of Black Journalists 9/97 - Present
NABJ/UNITY Journalists of Color Scholarship (8/00 & 7/99), NABJ TV Phoenix, AZ (8/00), NABJ/UNITY Radio Seattle, WA (7/99), NABJ TV Tallahassee, FL (3/99).
Radio Television News Directors Association 9/99 - Present
Society of Professional Journalists 9/02 - Present

-Education-
Syracuse University 05/01
Dual Bachelors of Science Speech Communications & African American Studies
Spanish Language and Linguistics Minor