Executive Councilmember Wanda Lloyd Inducted into NABJ Hall of Fame

Congratulations to Executive Councilmember Wanda Lloyd on her Hall of Fame induction into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). Wanda Lloyd has worked as an editor at seven daily newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today, over her four-decade career.

She retired from daily journalism in 2013 as executive editor of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, a Gannett newspaper. Lloyd has served as associate professor and chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University and is the author of the upcoming memoir “Coming Full Circle: Jim Crow to Journalism,” to be published in early 2020.

Lloyd was the founding executive director of the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University, which trained people of color seeking mid-career shifts into daily newspaper journalism careers. As a long-time member of NABJ, she directed the organization’s landmark study “Muted Voices: Frustration and Fear in the Newsroom,” a survey of black journalists and newsroom managers. In 2007, she was inducted into NABJ’s Region III Hall of Fame. Lloyd is a former director of the American Society of News Editors and her honors include the NABJ Ida B. Wells Award and Robert G. McGruder Award – both for media diversity.

nd no better honor than to be recognized by one’s peers,” said LIoyd. “I was more than thrilled when I learned I was selected to be inducted into the NABJ Hall of Fame.”