Author Archives: Media of Birmingham

Last week, we told you about two of the Emmys won by Alabama Public Television. The other two went to our pal Celia, who posts this request:

Dear friends,

Today I learned that the Alabama Public Television short film “Thornton Dial,” which I directed, is one of six finalists in a New York City-based film contest.

Winners will be determined by the Web audience. If you have a moment please go online and vote for “Thornton Dial.”

• Go to www.bioregenart.com.
• Click on film, and then click on “Thornton Dial.”

Many thanks for your support!

Abrazos,

Celia Carey

Congratulations to MOBster Amanda Shaw Newsome, who picked up a couple of Emmys for a doc for Alabama Public Television.

APT Earns Four Emmy Awards

June 26, 2007 – Alabama Public Television has received four Southeastern Regional Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for documentaries produced on the Montgomery Bus Boycott and on contemporary Alabama artist Thornton Dial.

Earning awards for excellence in Documentary Production was “Justice Without Violence,” a 30-minute documentary on the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 -1956, produced and directed by APT Executive Producer Amanda Shaw Newsome. Newsome also earned an Emmy for her script for the film.

Interns Lose Slots at Gannett Paper

The Gannett Co. newspaper in Montgomery, Ala., was forced to make quick and drastic budget cuts last week, editor Wanda Lloyd told Journal-isms on Monday, leaving three interns suddenly without summer jobs. Similar cuts could be coming at other Gannett properties.

The displaced interns were instantly picked up by Schurz Communications, a South Bend, Ind., media company that owns 15 dailies and five weeklies. Charles V. Pittman, the company’s senior vice president-newspapers, had just addressed the interns Friday at the Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute in Nashville, and said he could not let “these young people have their internship pulled out from under them.”

The three students will be going to the Herald Times in Bloomington, Ind. Schurz is taking a total of 13 interns, all of them trained in a joint multimedia program of Black College Wire and the Diversity Institute.

“I would not have done this if I had any other choice,” Lloyd, editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, told Journal-isms. She said that after a recent meeting of Gannett publishers, she was told by her publisher, Scott Brown, that the newspaper would be asked to take a look at possible cuts for the rest of 2007. She was on vacation last week attending a high-school reunion.