Lorraine Branham

Lorraine Elizabeth Branham (Desemba 7, 1952 - Aprili 2, 2019) alikuwa mhariri wa gazeti la Amerika na Mkuu wa S. I. Newhouse Shule ya Mawasiliano ya Umma katika Chuo Kikuu cha Syracuse. 

Alionekana kuwa mmoja wa wasomi muhimu zaidi wa Kiafrika katika uandishi wa habari na alijulikana sana kwa ushauri wake wa waandishi wa habari wachanga.
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Maisha ya mapema na elimu 
Branham alizaliwa mnamo Desemba 7, 1952, huko Philadelphia kwa Jesse Williams na Leona Green. Baada ya wazazi wake kutengana mapema, alilelewa na mama yake na baba yake wa kambo, Henry Walls. Alikuwa wa kwanza kati ya ndugu 13.
Alihitimu kutoka Shule ya Upili ya Overbrook (Philadelphia) | Shule ya Upili ya Overbrook huko Philadelphia na kujulikana katika redio, televisheni na filamu katika Chuo cha Klein cha Media na Mawasiliano cha Chuo Kikuu cha Hekalu, akihitimu mnamo 1976.

Branham alikuwa ameolewa na Norris Branham, ambaye alikuwa na mtoto wa kiume kabla ya kuachana. During her college years, she was a single mother.Baadaye aliolewa na Melvin Williams mnamo 1997. Aliweka jina lake wakati alioa Williams.

Branham alikuwa  John S. Knight Fellow katika Chuo Kikuu cha Stanford mnamo 1986.

Kazi ya kitaaluma 
Wakati wa siku zake za gazeti, Branham alifundisha kuripoti na kuandika katika Chuo Kikuu cha Temple. She also taught in the summer program for minority journalists at the University of California, Berkeley. She also has been a Hearst Visiting Professional-in-Residence at the University of Missouri, the University of Florida, and the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California.

Baada ya kukaa miaka 25 katika safu za kitaalam, Branham alikua mkurugenzi wa Moody College of Communication | Shule ya Uandishi wa Habari na George Dealey | G.B. Dealey Regents Profesa katika University of Texas at Austin kutoka 2002 hadi 2008.

Shule ya Newhouse 
Branham alichaguliwa kutoka uwanja wa waombaji 300 kuwa mkuu wa Shule ya Newhouse kuanzia Julai 2008. She replaced David Rubin, who had served in the same post for previous 18 years.

Wakati wa utawala wa Branham, shule ilianzisha Kituo cha Ujasiriamali wa Media Media , Diane na Bob Miron Digital News Center, Peter A. Horvitz Mwenyekiti aliyepewa Uwezo wa Uandishi wa Habar, and the W2O Group Center for Social Commerce. Branham championed the development of the student-produced news website The NewsHouse. Under her leadership, the Newhouse School created its sports communications emphasis and the Newhouse Sports Media Center. She also helped establish satellite campus programs, Newhouse in New York and Syracuse University Los Angeles Semester.

Branham alisimamia kampeni ya kutafuta fedha milioni 18 kwa ukarabati wa Newhouse 2 na kuunda vituo vipya vingi. In September 2014, Oprah Winfrey was the guest of honor during dedication of the new Newhouse Studio and Innovation Center, featuring Dick Clark Studios and the Alan Gerry Center for Media Innovation.

Alikuwa pia ameamua kuifanya shule hiyo kuwa tofauti zaidi. Amy Falkner, aliyemfuata Branham kama mkuu wa kaimu, alisema kuwa wakati wa utawala wa Branham asilimia ya washiriki wa kitivo cha rangi iliongezeka hadi asilimia 25 kutoka asilimia 17, na asilimia ya wanawake kwenye kitivo iliongezeka hadi asilimia 45 kutoka asilimia 35. Robo ya mwili wa wanafunzi sasa ni watu wa rangi, na theluthi mbili ya wanafunzi ni wanawake.

Baada ya kifo chake, Amy Falkner alihudumu katika nafasi ya mpito hadi Mark J. Lodato alipoteuliwa kushika nafasi hiyo mnamo Machi 2020 . Donald Newhouse, whose father founded the Newhouse school, was grateful for her service to the school and profession, and said that Branham had taken "a great school and with a monumental effort remolded it to keep it relevant to a world that is constantly in flux".

Tuzo 
 2011 Chama cha Philadelphia cha Wanahabari Weusi Tuzo ya Trailblazer
 2011 Chuo Kikuu cha Chuo Kikuu cha Mawasiliano na Nyumba ya sanaa ya Tuzo ya Mafanikio
 2017 Alumni Hall of Fame Honoree katika Shule ya Klein ya Chuo Kikuu cha Hekalu.

Aliwahi kuwa mshtaki kwa tuzo za Tuzo ya Pulitzer uandishi wa habari, Tuzo ya Pete ya Selden kwa Uandishi wa Habari za Upelelezi na  Tuzo za Uandishi wa Habari za Scrippsna kamati nyingi zaidi za tuzo za uandishi wa habari.

Kifo na urithi 
Branham, aliyeishi nje ya Syracuse, alikufa saratani ya mji wa uzazi mnamo Aprili 2, 2019.

Chuo Kikuu cha Syracuse na Shule ya Newhouse ilianzisha mipango miwili ya usomi katika kumbukumbu yake kuajiri na kusaidia wanafunzi wa Newhouse kutoka kwa watu walio katika hali duni ya kiuchumi na vikundi vingine vilivyowasilishwa.

Marejeo 

Arusha Translation-a-thon
Waliofariki 2019
Waliozaliwa 1952
Waandishi wa habari