How the media covers Black Lives Matter

The Press Club of Long Island presents an online panel discussion on “How the Media Has Covered Black Lives Matter and Other Diversity Issues in a Polarized Era” Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m.

The distinguished panel will include:

• Monte Young, Newsday assistant managing editor

• Wasim Ahmad, journalism professor at Quinnipiac University

• Rima Dael, WSHU station manager

• Scott Brinton, the Press Club’s president and executive editor of Herald Community Newspapers, will moderate.

RSVP to billbleyer@gmail.com to receive the Zoom invitation.

For more information, email sbrinton@liherald.com or billbleyer@gmail.com.

Speaker Biographies

Monte R. Young is an assistant managing editor for Newsday Media Group. Monte joined the staff in 1987 as a town reporter, worked on the copy desk, became a special writer covering local, state, national and minority affairs issues and Nassau County government, and did two six-month tours in Albany. He then became an editor on the Long Island desk, Sunday night editor, deputy editor for towns and deputy political editor. Monte is a prime mover in forging Newsday’s partnership with News 12. He is also working to link the editorial desk with Newsday’s studio by including both daily coverage and joint print/broadcast projects.

Wasim Ahmad, a journalism professor at Quinnipiac University, is a journalist and educator who previously has taught multimedia journalism at Syracuse University and Stony Brook University. He previously worked for newspapers in Minnesota, Florida and upstate New York.  He is a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University.

Rima Dael, who is originally from the Philippines, came to WSHU from New England Public Radio, where she was the executive director of development & major gifts.

Scott Brinton is executive editor of the 18-edition Herald Community Newspapers in Nassau County and an adjunct associate professor of journalism at Hofstra University’s Herbert School of Communication. He has also free-lanced for Newsday and The New York Times.