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About BABJA |
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Bay Area Black Journalist Association
 The association has become the Bay Area's black media organization of choice with the objective to groom black media professionals for leadership; to enhance the coverage of issues of concern to African American people; to work with Bay Area media in hiring and cultivating more responsible news coverage of communities of color. |
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BABJA History
Formed in March 1982, the Bay Area Black Journalist Association (BABJA) is an organization of African American media professionals and students representing radio, television, print, public relations, online journalism and advertising. The association is the Bay Area’s black media organization of choice with the objective to groom black media professionals for leadership; to enhance the coverage of issues of concern to African American people; to work with Bay Area media in hiring and cultivating more blacks in management and to make the media more responsible. BABJA is an affiliate of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), and as such, has hosted two NABJ Regional Conferences, attracting more than 250 black journalists to the Bay Area. BABJA has been the conduit through which many journalists have gained successful employment to the Bay Area media market—an area that has a reputation for being one of the most difficult markets to enter. |
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BABJA Mission
The Bay Area Black Journalist Association (BABJA) exists to serve as an advocate and beneficial network of journalists, students and media-related professionals. |
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BABJA Goals
1. To develop partnerships with local media companies to ensure the hiring, retention and promotion of black journalists.
2. Encouraging and mentoring black students with an interest in journalism and media.
3. To provide a professional and social network for black journalists to cultivate relationships with each other.. |
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BABJA Board Members
 Bob Butler, President
Bob began his broadcast journalism career in 1979. He was hired at KCBS Radio in 1981 and has covered every kind of story in the United States, including politics, disasters and economics. He has also reported from Brazil, Europe, Namibia, Tanzania and Senegal.
He left his full-time job in the KCBS Radio newsroom in May 2005 to spend 18-months as the Director of Diversity for CBS Corporation.
He is now working as a reporter on the Chauncey Bailey Project and is free-lancing at KCBS Radio.
Butler is a vice president on the AFTRA national board and is AFTRA’s national EEO chair. H e is the regional director of the National Association of Black Journalists and is president of the Bay Area Black Journalists Association. He has a bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from San Francisco State University.
 Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, VP-Print, Bay Area Black Journalist Association
Fitzhugh-Craig is a freelance journalist and columnist for The Globe Newspapers (East Bay). She is owner of M'agine Creative Services, which specializes in editorial, design, PR and marketing. Her clients include several newspapers and small businesses and organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Treasurer: John Ellis
Secretary:
Membership: Marcus Osborne
PR/Outreach: Kim Bardakian
Scholarship: Ellison Horne
Fundraising: Netta Conyers-Haynes
Student Representative: Aaron Morrison
Immediate Past President: John Hilton
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National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is an organization of journalists, students and media-related professionals that provides quality programs and services to and advocates on behalf of black journalists worldwide.
Founded by 44 men and women on December 12, 1975, in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the world. Many of NABJ's 3,300 members also belong to one of the dozens of professional and student chapters that serve black journalists nationwide.
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