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ABSTRACT
Grounded theory offers a way to examine the journeys of Black radio leaders. A group of 14 radio station leaders interviewed by The HistoryMakers and available in the HistoryMakers Digital Archive were selected for the following areas: educational background, career path, journey into the radio industry, management strategy, insights on sustainability of the Black Radio medium. The 14 radio leaders did not reflect a consistent pattern of career preparation. Four initial building blocks—ownership, leadership, management and outlook led to a second tier of themes—that together form the “Tenets of Black Radio Resilience.”
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George L. Daniels
George L. Daniels (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is an associate professor of journalism and creative media in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at The University of Alabama. A former radio news producer and announcer, Daniels worked in Black radio both as an undergraduate student at Howard University and as a professional in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Co-editor of Teaching Race: Struggles, Strategies and Scholarship for the Mass Communication Classroom (2021), he researches issues of diversity in the media workplace and in media products.