{"id":8537,"date":"2023-06-08T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=8537"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:43:50","slug":"central-state-wcsu-fm-general-manager-wins-award-for-advancing-black-media-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/08\/central-state-wcsu-fm-general-manager-wins-award-for-advancing-black-media-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Central State WCSU-FM General Manager Wins Award for Advancing Black media in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special to The Truth\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Ohio Collective recognized Charles Fox, general manager of Central State University\u2019s WCSU-FM, with the Legacy Builder Pillar Award for co-founding the Ohio Black News Service, on
\nMay 26 at the annual State of Black Ohio Summit.<\/p>\n

The mission of the Ohio Collective is to respond to the identified issues
\nand problems of African American-based racism and to engage the resources
\nnecessary to provide answers and positive outcomes to those issues. The
\nsummit brings together thought leaders for strategic planning and action in
\nsupport of that mission.<\/p>\n

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, former Ohio state senator
\nand current Ohio NAACP Conference president, Tom Roberts, called together
\nleaders of the state\u2019s Black-owned media to share his social and
\npolitical agenda. That gathering included 20 social media, print, radio,
\nand TV influencers from Akron, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Lorain,
\nToledo, and Wilberforce.<\/p>\n

Over the subsequent three years, virtual meetings became fuel for strategic
\ncollaboration, and two entities emerged: the for-profit Ohio Black Media
\nCollective and nonprofit Ohio Black News Service.<\/p>\n

Fox presented a concept for collaboration between WCSU-FM, Central State
\nUniversity, the NAACP, and the Black media leadership. That led to the
\nrecent formation of the OBNS.<\/p>\n

Serving as a professional development resource \u2014 providing internships
\nand entry-level assignments \u2014 for mass communications and journalism
\nstudents is one of the goals of the OBNS. Collaborating with student media
\norganizations also presents opportunities for digitizing stories from Black
\njournalists for streaming.<\/p>\n

While Fox leads efforts to install a state-of-the-art digital media
\nproduction studio\/lab in the Central State University Mass Communications
\nCenter, he credits his WCSU-FM team members, Operations Director Wade
\nOberlin, Broadcast Technician Stephon Lane, and Program Director Trent
\nDarby (aka Ronald Newell) for their initiatives in launching the web-based
\nstudent-run On Our Own Radio (OOO) and \u201cFunky Friday\u201d, a new show
\ncelebrating the music said to originate in Dayton, the \u201cCapital of
\nFunk\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether, these efforts energize the community to recognize and nurture
\nthe creative genius of our youth,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n

Informed by his award-winning professional experience in global, national,
\nand local media, Fox further explained, \u201cThe global entertainment and
\nmedia is on track to become a $2.9-trillion market by 2026. My vision is
\nfor the Central State University Mass Communications Center to become a
\nvibrant media axis for central Ohio, a collaborator with nonprofits such as
\nthe Ohio Black News Service and a pipeline for our students to compete in
\nand contribute to that fast-growing global industry.<\/p>\n

Affiliates of the Ohio Black Media Collective and Ohio Black News Service
\ninclude City Park League (Toledo), the Dayton Daily News, Elevate Dayton,
\nJasper Brown LLC (Dayton), NAACP Ohio Conference (Columbus), New Americans
\nMagazine (Columbus), Ross Communications\/WRCX TV 40 (Dayton), Stop26
\nRiverbend 97.7 FM, The African American News Journal (Columbus), The
\nBuckeye Review (Youngstown), The Call & Post 94.7 FM 105.3 FM 1460 WABQ
\n(Cleveland), The Cincinnati Herald, The Real Deal Press (Cleveland), The
\nReporter (Akron), Sojourner\u2019s Truth (Toledo), The Toledo Journal, WCSU FM
\n& OOO Radio (stream) Wilberforce, WNZN (Lorain), and Yellow Springs News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Special to The Truth\u00a0 The Ohio Collective recognized Charles Fox, general manager of Central State University\u2019s WCSU-FM, with the Legacy Builder Pillar Award for co-founding the Ohio Black News Service, on May 26 at the annual State of Black Ohio Summit. The mission of the Ohio Collective is to respond to the identified issues and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[178],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8538,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions\/8538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}