{"id":3437,"date":"2024-08-01T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T19:09:36","slug":"nabjs-executive-director-says-he-would-change-nothing-about-trump-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/nabjs-executive-director-says-he-would-change-nothing-about-trump-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"NABJ&#8217;s executive director says he would change \u2018nothing\u2019 about Trump panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Ismail Sy and Khenedi Wright<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After former President Donald Trump attended the 2024 NABJ Convention and Career Fair Wednesday for a Q&amp;A session, NABJ Executive Director Drew Berry said he wouldn\u2019t change anything about the panel or the invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the criticism the organization received from members, non-members and the general public for how the Q&amp;A panel went, Berry said journalists need to take bias and emotions out of it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to continue to further educate our members. We\u2019re not going to disinvite someone just because some may not like him, it makes zero sense. As for anything we\u2019d do differently, nothing,\u201d Berry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"NABJ Executive Director Drew Berry addresses the fallout around Trump&#039;s attendance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVrqU3Sk6dk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier in the week, the organization was bashed for extending an invite to the former president. Berry said it is important for members to continue to educate themselves and to put their job first before anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to continue to remind our members that this is what we\u2019re supposed to be doing. If your editor asks you to sit down with Donald Trump and you say, \u2018No\u2019 because you don\u2019t agree with him, you\u2019re not going to have a job,\u201d Berry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berry also said that some of the NABJ founders are beside themselves because they have been inviting presidential candidates from both parties to speak at conventions dating all the way back to 1970s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am okay with people expressing themselves. But it&#8217;s not unusual for an organization with strong and professional people to have different viewpoints with how we approach things. We weigh the positives and negatives and we may not make everyone happy, but we are always going to do what&#8217;s best for the organization,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berry said that with Trump\u2019s attendance, NABJ will also get Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to make an appearance for the organization, but that will likely come after the convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Ismail Sy and Khenedi Wright After former President Donald Trump attended the 2024 NABJ Convention and Career Fair Wednesday for a Q&amp;A session, NABJ Executive Director Drew Berry said he wouldn\u2019t change anything about <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/nabjs-executive-director-says-he-would-change-nothing-about-trump-panel\/\" title=\"NABJ&#8217;s executive director says he would change \u2018nothing\u2019 about Trump panel\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3437\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}