Nine heroes featured on billboards
Billboard giant Lamar Advertising is using its digital billboard network to recognize nine African Americans. whose achievements and accomplishments broke barriers and changed history. Lamar has billboards in the Delaware Valley in its nationwide footprint.
Featured are:
- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander: Lawyer and Ph.D. in economics
- Margaret E. Bailey: Army Nurse Corps colonel
- Ruby Bridges: Civil Rights activist
- George Washington Carver: Botanist and inventor
- Bessie Coleman: Early civil aviator
- Rudolph Fisher: Physician, radiologist, novelist, musician and orator
- Bernard Anthony Harris Jr.: NASA astronaut
- Langston Hughes: Poet, social activist, novelist, playwright
- Toni Morrison: Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.
The Heroes in History will be featured throughout the month of February.
The Baltimore Sun’s legendary columnist H.L. Mencken must be spinning in his grave.
The Sun is now being printed in Delaware at the News Journal-Gannett building on Basin Road, New Castle.
The Baltimore Fishbowl reported the changeover became effective this month and led to the loss of more than 130 jobs.
Massive printing presses used to be the pride and joy of metropolitan newspapers. As circulation plunged and late news deadlines went the way of the phone booth, presses became expendable.
Basin Road is an attractive printing site with a location just off Interstate 95. It is already printing a gaggle of Gannett papers.
WDEL seeks talk show host
Forever Media is looking for a talk show host at its WDEL news and talk station.
“We’re not looking for typical red vs. blue talk. We want a big personality who is interesting, entertaining, can focus on local issues while explaining the world we live in – and have fun! Someone who takes the news seriously, but not themselves,” the job listing states. Three to five years of experience behind the mic is preferred.
The current format at WDEL has Rick Jensen doing an afternoon talk show, with a news format in the morning.
