BALTIMORE, MD (WEAA) —DeWayne Wickham, founding dean of the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University announced the addition of four mass media executives to the Board of Visitors of SGJC.
“These newest members of SGJC’s distinguished advisory body will expand our school’s connection to the mass communication industry - and widen the bridge of opportunity between SGJC students and the jobs for which they are training,” Dean Wickham said.
Two of the members are graduates of the National Treasure, Morgan State University. One of the MSU graduates even began her career at WEAA Radio.
The newest members are:
Samantha (Sam) Selolwane, Head of Promotion for RCA Records. While at Morgan, Selolwane began her radio career as host of a Friday night hip-hop show on WEAA-FM called Strictly Hip-Hop. During her more than two decades in the music industry, she has earned major recognition and honors from Billboard and Variety for her work as one of the nation’s leading music executives. She lives in New York City.
Naim McNair, the senior vice president for A&R at Universal Music Group and Def Jam Recordings. McNair experienced a meteoric rise through the music industry after leaving Morgan in 1993. He has held major positions at Interscope, Geffen, Republic Records, MCA and Warner Bros. Records. He resides in Los Angeles.
Matt Murray, the editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswire. He oversees the Journal’s worldwide news operation, which includes bureaus across the United States and around the world. Prior to becoming editor in chief in 2018, he served as executive editor in 2017 and had been deputy editor in chief since 2013. He joined Dow Jones & Company in 1994 as a reporter for the Pittsburgh bureau. Murray is the author of The Father and the Son and co-author, with former New York City fire commissioner Thomas Von Essen, of Strong of Heart. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University and lives in New York.
Paula Madison, the former owner and CEO of the Los Angeles Sparks, WNBA basketball team, is chairman and CEO of Madison Media Management LLC, a Los Angeles based media consulting company with global reach. She spent over 35 years in news media, more than 20 of those years at NBC, retiring from NBCUniversal as executive vice president and chief diversity officer in 2011. She also serves as a founding partner with The Group LLC, a high-level, LA-based strategy, marketing, and communications consultancy. Madison is the author of Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem, a memoir about her successful efforts to reconnect with her Chinese grandfather’s family, which later became a documentary.
