Malvin Russell Goode

Malvin (Mal ) Russell Goode ( born February 13, 1908 in White Plains, Virginia; † September 12, 1995 in Pittsburgh ) was the first African-American television journalist and news correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company.

Life

Goode attended a public school in Homestead, Pennsylvania and graduated in 1931 graduated from the University of Pittsburgh from. Even in his high school years he began to work in a steel mill and finished this part-time job until five years after his graduation. He then worked for the YMCA at the " Centre Avenue " in Pittsburgh and fought racism within the YMCA. Then Goode was six years for the housing office ( " Pittsburgh Housing Authority " ) before joining the 1948 " Pittsburgh Courier ," a newspaper for African Americans, changed. For the sheet today, " New Pittsburgh Courier" called, he worked for fourteen years.

Malvin Goode died of a stroke at the age of 87 in Pittsburgh.

Career

After a short time at the radio station " KQV " in Pittsburgh, where he was on the air with a 15 -minute late-night news program two times a week, he went a little later to " whod " in Jackson, Alabama. There, he hosted a daily five minutes and was broadcast in 1952 the news - editor in chief of the transmitter.

In 1962, he became the first African-American news correspondent for the ABC television network and worked as a UN reporter. Goode 's first task was to report on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Here, his reports were distinguished by the concise summary of the hours-long debates of the UN.

In 1963 he went to Africa for two months in order to provide for more than one hundred students seminars in journalism with two colleagues. The lectures were held in Lagos, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam.

As Alpha Phi Alpha ( ΑΦΑ ) member, the first college -wide, African-American fraternity, he reported in 1968 by the assassination of his " ΑΦΑ " colleague Martin Luther King.

1971 Goode was the first African- American member of the "Radio - Television News Directors Association " ( RTNDA ) and in 1987 awarded by the RTNDA with the " John F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award". In 1990 he was picked up by the National Association of Black Journalists in the " NABJ Hall of Fame".