{"id":2931,"date":"2023-08-02T14:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T20:45:27","slug":"lemon-reaching-out-to-new-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/lemon-reaching-out-to-new-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon reaching out to new generations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Lentheus Chaney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>NABJ Monitor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ken Lemon by NABJ Monitor\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1580295418&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Lemon, NABJ vice president of broadcast, is facing a younger candidate in Tre\u2019vell Anderson, but he feels confident in his appeal to the next generation of journalists entering the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I do it every day.\u201d Lemon said. \u201cI&#8217;m with students at North Carolina A&amp;T University. I&#8217;m with students at South Carolina State University. I&#8217;m with the Emerging Journalists Summit talking to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have worked with young journalists all of my life, since I started in this business,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lemon also emphasizes his advocacy work with ESPN, the National Football League and the Golden Globes to promote diversity and inclusion in media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;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,\u201d Lemon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ken Lemon Podcast by NABJ Monitor\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1580290974&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Lentheus Chaney NABJ Monitor Ken Lemon, NABJ vice president of broadcast, is facing a younger candidate in Tre\u2019vell Anderson, but he feels confident in his appeal to the next generation of journalists entering the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/lemon-reaching-out-to-new-generations\/\" title=\"Lemon reaching out to new generations\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,36],"tags":[400,204,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-2931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nabj23","8":"category-podcasts-2022","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-nabj"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}