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St. John’s University journalism professor Claire Serant has been named as a special honoree at the 20th Annual New York Association of Black Journalists (NYABJ) Scholarship & Awards Dinner. The NYABJ Dinner will take place on February 13, hosted by WABC-TV’s Sade Baderinwa and WCBS-TV’s Maurice Dubois at Columbia University in the Low Library Rotunda 6:00 p.m.

Serant, a faculty member in the Division of Mass Communication, Journalism, Television and Film at St. John’s University, earned her Master’s degree in Journalism at Columbia University.  In addition to her education background, Serant worked as a reporter with the New York Daily News for 16 years.  Serant is currently a freelance reporter for New York Newsday and the Englewood Magazine in New Jersey.  As a professor at St. John’s, Serant is guiding and assisting her students to jobs at major newspapers all across the country.

The NYABJ recognizes the best in Print, New Media, Radio, Magazine and Television reporting issues that affect the Black Diaspora.  Additional honorees include: Roz Abrams, the late Gerald Boyd, Alphonso Van Marsh and Wilbert Tatum.

The New York Association of Black Journalists was founded in 1976 to pursue the common concerns and goals of black media professionals. Today it is the largest chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, which is the world’s largest organization of journalists of color with over 3,300 members.

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