By Lentheus Chaney
NABJ Monitor
Ken Lemon, NABJ vice president of broadcast, is facing a younger candidate in Tre’vell Anderson, but he feels confident in his appeal to the next generation of journalists entering the field.
“Well, I do it every day.” Lemon said. “I’m with students at North Carolina A&T University. I’m with students at South Carolina State University. I’m with the Emerging Journalists Summit talking to them.
“I have worked with young journalists all of my life, since I started in this business,” he said.
Currently serving his second term as NABJ vice president of broadcast, Lemon joined NABJ 16 years ago. He is the current deputy chair of the broadcast task force and chair of Black Male Media Project.
Lemon also emphasizes his advocacy work with ESPN, the National Football League and the Golden Globes to promote diversity and inclusion in media.
“That’s the history that I do on a national level, even more on the local level, helping people in individual circumstances and most recently working in a situation with a young woman who had a racial slur yelled at her while covering the story,” Lemon said.
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