Pearl Stewart
1950
The first Black woman editor of a metropolitan daily newspaper
Founder of Black College Wire
Howard University
American University in Washington D.C
She is a native of Camden, Alabama. She spent her early years in Rochester, New York. Pearl attended Howard University and American University.
She joined the Oakland Tribune in 1976 as a reporter. She relocated to San Fransico and worked for the San Francisco Chronicle where she covered Oakland government, education and community planning. She returned back to the Oakland Tribune when given the opportunity to be hired as the Editor of the Daily paper and spent ten years in the position and in 1993 she retired.
She then was offered a position as a research fellowship at Harvard in which accepted and taught investigative reporting in Zambia, and lectured at several universities.
In 2002 she founded BLACK COLLEGE WIRE an online student news service while teaching at Florida A&M University journalism school. three years after that she joined the University of Sothern Mississippi as an Adjunct Professor.
She is the recipient of many awards for journalism.