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In five years, Redding
News Review - an award winning nonpartisan Web site covering black news
and beyond - has changed journalism and been recognized by legacy media
in the process.
The Web site was
started on March 25, 2002 as a part of Publisher
Robert "Rob" Redding's
now syndicated radio show Redding News
Review. Updated hourly, it has evolved
into one of the Web's premiere destinations for credible,
competitive, consistent news content and a go-to source for
legacy and new media.
The Web site's top
content is syndicated hourly by Google News. Its stories are heard
regularly on
XM Satellite Radio and they have become a regular part of the Fox News
Channel and National Public Radio.
Its comprehensive coverage of the black community became a
resource for Fox News during the Don Imus "nappy-headed ho's"
controversy. (See
transcript and listen to the audio). Its scoops
have also been acknowledged or linked to by NPR, BET, MSNBC, Roll Call, The
Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, The Washington Times, The National
Newspaper Association and many more. (View
Redding News Review in the news).
The Web site - which
has been called "an
Internet clearinghouse for African-American news," by The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - was the
first to report former Mayor and Ambassador Andrew Young's
comments on Sen. Barack Obama not being ready to be president. (See
story)
The Web site was
credited by
Editor & Publisher for breaking news of the harassment of
Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts by a white
supremacist group. The group is now being investigated by the
FBI and local authorities.
The
Web site has been recognized by the
National Association of Black
Journalists for its Hurricane Katrina coverage. The Web site ran
a widely read exclusive pointing out the Drudge Report's
questionable use of a photo and headline. The Drudge Report's
photo likened black people to being "Trapped like animals." The
exclusive report resulted in the photo being taken down and it being run on the black journalists' group's Web site's
front page for more than two weeks. (Read
the story).
In December
2004, the site's breaking news coverage prompted Brian Williams,
NBC News anchor and managing editor, to apologize for saying there
are "bigger problems" than newsroom diversity. The Web
site's coverage also spurred the
newsman's boss NBC News President Neal Shapiro to vow to
redouble the company's minority hiring efforts. (Read
more).
The site won a "Black
Web Award" for being the "Best News Distribution" site in
November 2008.
ReddingNewsReview.com
is under the RCI
umbrella.
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