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Cheryl Owsley Jackson
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Cheryl Jackson is a Journalist-In-Residence at Emerson College, who has worked for CNN, PBS and Racing Towards Diversity magazine.
Highlights of her work for CNN include coverage of the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal, where the bodies of many African-Americans were ripped from their graves, left in piles and their graves resold.Also, for CNN, the hour-by-hour live coverage of the Christmas Day “underwear bomber.”
She is very proud of the project, about Tyler Perry's movie, "For Colored Girls," she did for PBS.
She has been also a lecturer at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and was the video news director in Medill's DC program.
Cheryl has also taught newspaper writing and broadcast classes at Indiana University.
Cheryl Jackson started her journalism career as a features reporter and newspaper diversity columnist. She wrote a column, "It Takes All Kinds," for the Columbus Republic for more than a decade. The content of the column was designed to promote understanding through diversity, writing on race and culture in a positive way.
Her first job in television was as a convergence reporter, working for both WSBT/TV and the newspaper, the South Bend Tribune.
She did a live report for WSBT five days a week and then flipped many of those stories into print for the morning edition of The Tribune. She often shot the photos that accompanied the print piece. She continued her broadcast career at WRTV-6 before moving to Chicago to freelance forCNN.
She has been involved in conferences on the Social Status of Black Males and has done training in detentions centers and visited several Indiana prisons for further study on the subject. Cheryl also taught English as a Second Language to people from all over the world.
She wrote and produced, The International Report, a monthly publication aimed at aiding internationals as they transition into American culture.
Cheryl has years of board service including, The United Way, Leadership Bartholomew County, The Columbus Mayor’s Diversity Council.
She has been a panelist in discussions regarding news and diversity, including Moderating a panel discussion for the National Press Club with network journalists imbedded with 2016 Trump Campaign.
She was the diversity coordinator for the Bartholomew County School system and has also logged hundreds of hours of pubic school volunteer work, much of that work focused on reading programs.
Cheryl was 15 when her first opinion piece on the Ku Klux Klan was published in the mainstream press.
Cheryl Jackson was an Indianapolis Black Expo pageant winner.
From left, broadcaster Cheryl Jackson, Herald-Times editor Bob Zaltsberg and Hirons and Co. COO Jim Parham were panelists at an ethics discussion Friday.
Cheryl interviewed both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as they campaigned in 2008.
Cheryl Jackson interviews Mellody Hobson of Ariel Mutual Funds. Hobson is a regular contributor on financial issues for ABC's Good Morning America.
National Press Club presents Centennial Forum at IUPUI
The School of Journalism teamed up with the National Press Club to look at the future of the news media and how to protect its core values in special forum at IUPUI.
Dennis Ryerson, Indianapolis Star, Cheryl Jackson, WRTV
As part of its 100th anniversary, the National Press Club is presenting “The Centennial Forum on The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism" around the country.
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