BlackPressRadio.com covers 2007 NAMME conference in Washington, DC 
(BlackPressMagazine.com) - While their focus isn't aligned with the Historical Black Press Foundation's main mission to enhance Black-owned media outlets, the National Association of Minority Media Executives is an important organization that meets our second-tier mission to foster dialogue between mainstream media and America's Black Press.
The 2007 NAMME Annual Conference opened with the "View from the Top", a CEO panel featuring industry top execs who shares their strategies for success.
DiversityInc executive editor, Barbara Frankel, led the next panel representing company's that received high ratings as diversity super stars. Hear how and why top ranked company's like Coca-Cola, Sodexho, Pepsi Bottling Group and Deloitt & Touche are making good in the workplace and marketplace.
Participants were allowed to choose from four varied "tool-kit" sessions, two each in the am/pm sesions that were hands-on and provide useful, practical skills that can be applied immediately to strengthen and build any ambitious executive's professional arsenal.
Day One concluded with a timely session on "Race, Media and Images" led by award winning author and journalist Ellis Cose who sparked a lively discussion with experts about media's track record on portraying our people and minority media executives at corporate media outlets.
Day Two was devoted to all things digital and starts off with digital pioneer, Rob Curley, vp product development WPNI, who takes the irreverent stand that, above all else, content must be king in his session called "Its the content stupid, not the gadget!" Next, Mario Armstrong returned to show media executives the tools that every savvy business executive needs for themselves and/or their staffers. NAMME finished the technology triad with a focus on the best of the best in Mobile Marketing moderated by Shabnum Norling and featuring mobile marketing gurus from Verizon Wireless, NYTimes Digital, MobiTV, AdMob and the MMA.
Newsmaker Luncheons highlighted each day and was kicked off with former LA Times editor, Dean Baquet, and current Washington Bureau Chief for The New York Times who spoke about managing print newsrooms during an era of cutbacks and Wall Street profit-margin pressures. Thursday's Newsmaker Luncheon speaker, Randall Pinkston, put the journalists spotlight on stories media should be covering but is not, such as Education in America, the state of media and the war in Iraq.
Not to be missed were the networking events at which NAMME and those interested in an intensive session on career reinvention registered for the pre-conference session Reinvent Yourself!--Strategies for Promoting Your Career within a Changing Industry with Pamela Mitchell. Both convened on July 10.
Many of the BlackPressRadio.com interviews took place at the Conference Opening Reception, sponsored by The Washington Post, which was held onsite at the longstanding Washington, DC media landmark. The next evening's event was hosted by FOX and NewsCorporation and was held at the elegant setting of the Jack Valenti Motion Picture Association where attendees were treated to an elegant reception and dinner, film screening and silent auction. Minority media executive were given the opportunity to network independent filmmakers of color and bid on unique items such as tickets to the Sundance Film Festival, the NAACP and ALMA Awards programs, The Black, Asian, and Hispanic Film Festivals, etc.
Interviews were conducted with:
1) Derrick Dingle, Editor of Black Enterprise Magazine
2) Johan Thomas, President of Troubl Media
3) Al Fitzgerald, founder of NAMME
4) Neil Foote, new executive director for NAMME
5) Harlee Little, veteran photojournalist
To listen to the podcasts, visit http://www.blackpressradio.com and enter keyword: "NAMME" or "State of"
At presstime, BlackPodcasts.com/BlackPressRadio.com has 101,603 listeners up from over 90,000 on July 4, 2007. In addition, BlackPressRadio.com reported
nearly 75,000 people have downloaded the podcasts to the iPod or computer, up more than 60,000 last week. The numbers are growing so fast we didn't have time to enjoy our 50,000th download commercial and are now working on the 100,000th download version. Downloads are shown as "Plays" as web stats are not shown to the public. BlackPressRadio.com does not make the number of listens available to the public but you can track amount of downloads by the number of "Plays" next to each podcast.
BlackPressRadio.com includes series including:
- State of Hip Hop (keyword: State of or Carl West)
- State of Black Radio with NABOB's Jim Winston (keyword: NABOB or radio)
- NAMME: The Podcast Series featuring Neil Foote, Derrick Dingle, Kevin Merida and Al Fitzpatrick (keyword: who's who or NAMME)
- Radio One's Joe Madison and EUR Web's Lee Bailey (keyword: radio or NABOB)
- Black Publishers Podcast Series (keyword: publisher) and
- Black Authors Podcast Series (keyword: author or book)
To listen to a podcast, visit http://www.blackpressradio.com. Use keywords to search your desired topics in the archives.
Judges, Sponsors and Panelists wanted for Hip Hop Journalism Summit and Black Press All Star Awards
Black Press will conduct pre-, during and post-event podcast interviews, write articles on the Hip Hop Journalism Summit and Black Press All Star Awards event that will be held on Sept. 14-15, 2007 and help promote the event as part of the media sponsorship commitment. The 3rd annual Hip Hop Journalism Summit and Black Press All Star Awards is currently accepting application for individuals who want to be apart of the panels, sponsorship list or judging selection committee to help determine the winners among the submissions comprised of newspapers, magazines, websites, publicists, authors and others in the Black media industry. To be considered, send your bio, weblink and photo to [email protected] by July 31, 2007.
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