October 27, 2024 | Chicago Tribune
As a female journalist of color with 22 years in the industry and now a professor of journalism, I believe that obliviousness to journalism’s trailblazers—both their errors and biases and their accomplishments and innovations—leaves the media professional in a state of historical amnesia.
Melita Garza, Associate Professor and Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism
Melita Garza, associate professor and Tom and June Netzel Sleeman Scholar in Business Journalism, wrote an op-ed piece for the titled, “There are lessons to learn from the news ghosts of journalism’s past.”
In the article—inspired by the Editors’ Hall of Fame in Gregory Hall—Garza urges today’s journalists to “revere the past, learn from mistakes, and work to build legacies of truth.”