Ann-Marie Adams

Ann-Marie Adams is an award-winning investigative journalist and historian. She is the founder of The Hartford Guardian, a civic-minded news publication in print and online. She is a frequent contributor to the Washington Post, The Root, and Ebony.com. She was recently a White House Correspondent.

Additionally, she was a race and gender post-doctoral fellow at Rutgers University. Before that, she worked as a reporter and writer at The Hartford Courant, the Norwich Bulletin, Times–Herald Record, People magazine, NBC 4 New York, News 12 Connecticut, and FOX News and the Washington Post as a race and gender columnist. In June 2012, she was also asked to cover the White House under President Barack Obama.

Born in 1970, Adams has taught journalism and history at Quinnipiac University, Howard University, Rutgers University and other colleges and universities. She has been teaching English, Communications, Journalism and U.S. History in colleges and universities since 2001.

She is also the founder of Ann's Write Stuff, a media consulting firm established in 2002 after she resigned from The Hartford Courant. Ann's Write Stuff is now doing business as Social Impact 2.0, a media consulting firm based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Dr. Adams is most known, however, for her in-depth stories about the ill effects of social stratification, mental illness, school inequity, environmental racism, business development, all forms of government, city, state and national politics.

Education

Adams was an honors student who studied English and Journalism at Brooklyn College's Honors Program. She became the first black editor-in-chief of The Kingsman after serving as the news editor of the Excelsior.[1] While still at Brooklyn College, she began working at the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, New York. She has also worked for NBC4 New York, People magazine, Ebony.com, the Washington Post, Bridgeport Post and the Jamaica Gleaner.

After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1999, Adams moved back to her home state, Connecticut, working briefly at The Norwich Bulletin before accepting a position with The Hartford Courant. She has been covering government, education and politics since 1999.

She has taught Journalism at Howard University and Quinnipiac University. And she recently taught U.S. History at Rutgers University.

Affiliations

While at The Courant, Adams became the youngest president of the Connecticut Association of Black Communicators (CABC), a chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ). Adams is also the founder of the National Association of Caribbean-American Journalists (NACAJ). She was a board member of the John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center, and the Black Fashion Museum's Harlem Fashion Week.

Noteworthy

As president of CABC, Adams spoke out about the paucity of minority journalists in the media. In June 2001, she was featured in an American Journalism Review article about the declining number of minority journalists in Connecticut.[2]

Turning Point

After her departure at The Courant, Adams went on to work with other media organizations both nationally and internationally, namely: People magazine, Fox News, and News 12CT and The Jamaica Gleaner. She has had assignments in Jamaica, The Bahamas, Jordan, Ethiopia, Ghana Nigeria, and Mexico.

She writes about politics, government, travel, education and other social issues.

Accolades

She has also received several local and national awards, including the International Center for Journalists’ Finance Reporting Award, and the 2001 Lincoln University's first-place award for best education reporting among national publications. She has also received numerous fellowships, including the Investigative Reporters and Editors Computer Assisted Reporting Bootcamp, Poynter Reporting and Editing Fellowship, Hechinger Institute for Education Reporting at Columbia Teacher’s College, Education Writers Association, Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families, International Center for Journalists, Vanderbilt University’s Editorial Program at the John Seigenthaler Center, and the University of California-Berkeley Knight Digital Media Center. She was a 2003 graduate of Leadership Greater Hartford[3] a 2004 Independent Press Association George Washington Williams Reporting Fellow and a recipient of Hartford Business Journal's 2006 Forty Under Forty Award.[4]

She has appeared on television and radio in local, national, and international markets, namely C-SPAN,CNN, Fox News CT, The Hartford Courant, Florida Sun Sentinel, Redding News, WABC 7 in Washington, D.C. , Ebony.com, The Root.com, Washington Post, BBCLive5 in London, BBC World News, the Jamaica Gleaner, the Jamaica Observer, Caribbean Net News, CaribNation TV, the Von Martin Radio Show, WHUR, BET.com, Christian Science Monitor, 93.7 FM, CBS Radio; NPR-WESU Radio, American Journalism Review and Face the State, WFSB Channel 3.

2018 U.S. Senate election

In 2017, Adams announced her intention to challenge Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy in the 2018 Democratic primary.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "File Not Found" (PDF). www.brooklyn.cuny.edu.
  2. ↑ American Journalism Review
  3. ↑ Leadership Greater Hartford's website
  4. ↑ Hartford Business Journal
  5. ↑ "PAGE BY PAGE REPORT DISPLAY FOR 201703010200079535 (Page 1 of 4)". docquery.fec.gov.

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