Malvin Russell Goode

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Malvin (Mal) Russell Goode (born February 13, 1908 in White Plains Virginia , † September 12, 1995 in Pittsburgh ) was the first African American TV journalist and news correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company .

Life

Goode attended a public school in Homestead , Pennsylvania and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1931 . He started working in a steel mill while he was still in high school and did not finish this part-time job until five years after graduation . He then worked for the YMCA on "Center Avenue" in Pittsburgh and fought against racism within the YMCA. Goode then worked for the Pittsburgh Housing Authority for six years before moving to the Pittsburgh Courier, a newspaper for African Americans, in 1948. He worked for the paper that is now called the "New Pittsburgh Courier" for fourteen years.

Malvin Goode died of a stroke at the age of 87 in Pittsburgh.

Career

After a short stint on the radio station "KQV" in Pittsburgh, where he was on the air twice a week with a 15-minute late-night newscast, he soon went to "WHOD" in Jackson, Alabama. There he hosted a five-minute broadcast every day and in 1952 became the station's chief news editor.

In 1962 he became the first African-American news correspondent for the ABC TV network and initially worked as a UN reporter. Goode's first job was to report on the Cuban Missile Crisis . His reports were characterized by a concise summary of the hours of debates at the UN.

In 1963 he and two colleagues went to Africa for two months to give seminars in journalism to more than a hundred students. The lectures took place in Lagos , Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam .

As Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) member, the first cross- college , Afro-American brotherhood , he reported in 1968 about the murder of his "ΑΦΑ" colleague Martin Luther King .

In 1971, Goode was the first African American member of the "Radio-Television News Directors Association" (RTNDA) and in 1987 was awarded the "John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award" by RTNDA. In 1990 he was inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame by the National Association of Black Journalists .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Pittsburgh Courier , Public Broadcasting System
  2. ^ Malvin (Mal) Russell Goode ( February 14, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ), African American Registry
  3. ^ John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award ( Memento November 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), RTNDA
  4. ^ NABJ Hall of fame ( Memento from July 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Goode, Malvin Russell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goode, Mal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television journalist and news correspondent
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH White Plains (Virginia)
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1995
Place of death Pittsburgh