Season 2: Episode 2: Memphis - Destination or Pass Through?
We continue our conversation about the changing media landscape in Memphis. Is it a destination or a pass through?
That’s the focus of Season 2, Episode 2 of the mark up by mediaverse.
Melonee and I were joined by the following guests:
Daja E. Henry is an award-winning journalist based in Memphis, Tennessee. She is currently a Frances Ellen Watkins Harper editorial fellow at The 19th* News. She is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and a graduate of Howard University and Arizona State University. In her journalistic work, she strives to center and amplify the voices of the underrepresented. Daja's work has appeared in The Daily Memphian, High Country News, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal, and has taken her to Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and across the U.S.
Denisha J. Thomas is a native of Memphis and the news director for ABC 24.
Thomas joined ABC24 from WKYC, TEGNA’s NBC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio, where she has been executive producer since 2019. She was also news content producer for WKYC from 2015-2017, before being named executive producer at WGRZ, TEGNA’s NBC affiliate in Buffalo, New York.
Thomas participated in TEGNA’s Leadership Development program in 2019, and in August 2020 she was one of 32 journalists nationwide selected for the Poynter Institute and Washington Post’s Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media. Prior to joining TEGNA, Thomas worked as a news producer at television stations in Memphis, Jonesboro, Arkansas and Columbia, Missouri.
Thomas holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the University of Missouri Griffiths Leadership Society.
