Jeanne Fox-Alston
Vice President, Diversity
Areas of expertise
Minority fellowship seminars
Minority fellowships
Minority internships
New media fellowships
Newspaper mentorship programs
Newsroom diversity Jeanne Fox-Alston manages and develops NAA diversity initiatives and services to help strengthen diversity efforts in the newspaper industry. Fox-Alston joined NAA in 2003 from the National Association of Minority Media Executives, where she served as executive director since 1999. NAMME is an organization of media managers and executives of color working in newspapers, magazines, radio and television, cable and new media. Fox-Alston also served as executive director of the NAMME Foundation, the training and educational arm of NAMME. Before joining NAMME in 1999, Fox-Alston worked at The Washington Post for 14 years, most recently as Director of Recruiting and Hiring for The Post newsroom, coordinating the hiring of reporters, editors, photographers, news artists and summer interns. Fox-Alston also has been a reporter, copy editor and graphics editor at the Kansas City Times, Detroit Free Press and Chicago Tribune. Fox-Alston studied journalism and political science at the University of Michigan. She also attended the Media Management Center’s Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University, the premier executive development program for newspaper executives. Fox-Alston has been an instructor for programs offered by the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, as well as an editor for the convention newspaper of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fox-Alston is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and is a former regional director and vice president of NABJ. She also serves as a judge for the annual Knight Ridder Excellence Awards, and is an advisory board member for the “Let’s Do It Better!” workshop on coverage on race and ethnicity that is held annually at Columbia University.
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