TIme Magazine Loses Only Black Correspondent

By The Root (Washington Post) | Posted on: December 20, 2011

New York, NY - Five years ago, Journal-isms asked Ali Zelenko, vice president for communications at Time Inc., to name the journalists of color at Time magazine.

Among the 15 she listed were black journalists Janice Simpson, assistant managing editor; Ta-Nehisi Coates, staff writer; Perry Bacon Jr., Washington correspondent; and Sonja Steptoe, senior correspondent.

Today, all are gone. And the last remaining black correspondent, Steven Gray, who joined the magazine in 2007 and works in the Washington bureau, announced Friday he is leaving.

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TIme Magazine Loses Only Black Correspondent