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In 1996, Williams became host of the syndicated television program ''[[America's Black Forum]]''. The show’s regular panelists included [[Julian Bond]], [[Niger Innis]], [[Deborah Mathis]] and [[Armstrong Williams]].
In 1996, Williams became host of the syndicated television program ''[[America's Black Forum]]''. The show’s regular panelists included [[Julian Bond]], [[Niger Innis]], [[Deborah Mathis]] and [[Armstrong Williams]].


====Verbal sexual harassment====
====Allegations of verbal sexual harassment====
While working at the Washington Post, Williams was charged with verbally harassing female staff members over a four-year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After Williams wrote a column defending [[Supreme Court]] nominee [[Clarence Thomas]] following proceedings that accused Thomas of sexually harassing Professor [[Anita Hill]], WRC-TV, an NBC affiliate in Washington D.C. broke the story about Williams' behavior. The story had been unreported by the Washington Post and Post media columnist [[Howard Kurtz]] was initially held back by Post management from reporting on the story. After the NBC station reported the story, the Washington Post mentioned the controversy in its pages. After a protest by 116 newsroom employees the newspaper investigated the claims and concluded that the charges against Williams were legitimate and proven. [http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1688][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/10/21/ST2010102102028.html] After the Post upheld the claims, Williams acknowledged his wrongdoing in a column in the Washington Post on November 2, 1991 "It pained me to learn during the investigation that I had offended some of you. I have said so repeatedly in the last few weeks, and repeat here: some of my verbal conduct was wrong, I now know that, and I extend my sincerest apology to those whom I offended." [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1713] The newspaper took disciplinary action against Williams. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102102009.html][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/10/21/ST2010102102028.html]
While working at the Washington Post, Williams was charged with verbally harassing female staff members over a four-year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After Williams wrote a column defending [[Supreme Court]] nominee [[Clarence Thomas]] following proceedings that accused Thomas of sexually harassing Professor [[Anita Hill]], WRC-TV, an NBC affiliate in Washington D.C. broke the story about Williams' behavior. The story had been unreported by the Washington Post and Post media columnist [[Howard Kurtz]] was initially held back by Post management from reporting on the story. After the NBC station reported the story, the Washington Post mentioned the controversy in its pages. After a protest by 116 newsroom employees the newspaper investigated the claims and concluded that the charges against Williams were legitimate and proven. [http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=1688][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/10/21/ST2010102102028.html] After the Post upheld the claims, Williams acknowledged his wrongdoing in a column in the Washington Post on November 2, 1991 "It pained me to learn during the investigation that I had offended some of you. I have said so repeatedly in the last few weeks, and repeat here: some of my verbal conduct was wrong, I now know that, and I extend my sincerest apology to those whom I offended." [http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1713] The newspaper took disciplinary action against Williams. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/21/AR2010102102009.html][http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/10/21/ST2010102102028.html]


Revision as of 13:54, 25 October 2010

For the Chilean naval officer, see Juan Williams Rebolledo.
Juan Williams
Juan Williams speaking at Chautauqua Institution in 2007
Born (1954-04-10) April 10, 1954 (age 70)
Colón, Panama
Occupation(s)Author, journalist
Notable credit(s)CNN Crossfire
Fox News Sunday
National Public Radio

Juan Williams (born April 10, 1954) is an American journalist, and political commentator for Fox News Channel, and was formerly a news analyst for National Public Radio. Williams also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been published in magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and Time.

Williams has spoken at the Smithsonian’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, which ended legal segregation in public schools, and was selected by the United States Census Bureau as moderator of its first program beginning its 2010 effort. He has received honorary doctorates from Lafayette College, Wittenberg University, and Long Island University, among other institutions.[1][2][3]

Williams was an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, White House correspondent and national correspondent during his 23 year career at The Washington Post. He has won several awards for investigative journalism and his opinion columns.

Early years

Williams was born in Colon, Panama, near the Canal Zone. His father, Roger, was a boxing trainer and his mother, Alma, a seamstress. He was raised in the Episcopal Church.[citation needed] When he was four years old his family immigrated[4] to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. He then won a scholarship to attend Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie, New York. He became clerk of the student body, editor of the student paper and was captain of the baseball, cross-country and championship basketball team. He then won a scholarship to Haverford College where he graduated with a B.A. in philosophy in 1976.[citation needed]

Career

Washington Post 1976-2000

During college, Williams worked for three years as a reporter intern for the Philadelphia Bulletin. He also won a Dow-Jones Newspaper Fund Award for outstanding young journalists and worked for a summer as an editor at the Providence Journal before returning to finish college. After graduation, he won an internship at The Washington Post. He worked at the paper from 1976 to 2000. During his tenure at the Post, he held several positions, including metropolitan staff writer. While on the local staff he wrote a prize winning 6 part series on the problems in the DC public schools that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His investigative reporting on corruption in Mayor Marion Barry’s administration also won several awards. He later served on the Post’s national staff—covering every major political campaign from 1980 to 2000—and as a political analyst. He also wrote as the paper’s White House correspondent, as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist and for the Post Sunday Magazine.

While at the Post he became a regular panelist on Inside Washington, a weekly Washington political affairs program. In 1990 CNN signed him to be a host for its Crossfire program with co-hosts Robert Novak, Michael Kinsley and Pat Buchanan. He also regularly appeared on Capitol Gang and hosted Crossfire Sunday with Lynne Cheney.

In 1996, Williams became host of the syndicated television program America's Black Forum. The show’s regular panelists included Julian Bond, Niger Innis, Deborah Mathis and Armstrong Williams.

Allegations of verbal sexual harassment

While working at the Washington Post, Williams was charged with verbally harassing female staff members over a four-year period in the late 1980s and early 1990s. After Williams wrote a column defending Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas following proceedings that accused Thomas of sexually harassing Professor Anita Hill, WRC-TV, an NBC affiliate in Washington D.C. broke the story about Williams' behavior. The story had been unreported by the Washington Post and Post media columnist Howard Kurtz was initially held back by Post management from reporting on the story. After the NBC station reported the story, the Washington Post mentioned the controversy in its pages. After a protest by 116 newsroom employees the newspaper investigated the claims and concluded that the charges against Williams were legitimate and proven. [2][3] After the Post upheld the claims, Williams acknowledged his wrongdoing in a column in the Washington Post on November 2, 1991 "It pained me to learn during the investigation that I had offended some of you. I have said so repeatedly in the last few weeks, and repeat here: some of my verbal conduct was wrong, I now know that, and I extend my sincerest apology to those whom I offended." [4] The newspaper took disciplinary action against Williams. [5][6]

National Public Radio

Williams joined NPR in 1999 as host of the daily afternoon talk show Talk of the Nation. He then served as senior national correspondent for NPR, interviewing newsmakers as well as providing analysis of major events in interviews with the anchors for the newsmagazines Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday.

Due to Williams' commentary on the Fox News Channel, NPR requested that the FNC stop identifying him as an NPR host in 2009. NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard maintained that: "Williams tends to speak one way on NPR and another on Fox." Williams' comment on January 26, 2009, to Bill O’Reilly and Mary Katharine Ham, while appearing on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, triggered the move:

Michelle Obama, you know, she's got this Stokely Carmichael-in-a-designer-dress thing going. If she starts talking, as Mary Katharine is suggesting, her instinct is to start with this blame America, you know, I'm the victim. If that stuff starts coming out, people will go bananas and she'll go from being the new Jackie O to being something of an albatross.[5]

Williams' comment prompted a response from NPR, "As a result of this latest flap, NPR's Vice President of News, Ellen Weiss, asked Williams to ask that Fox remove his NPR identification whenever he is on O'Reilly."[6]

NPR terminated his contract on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, after he made the following remarks on The O'Reilly Factor two days earlier:

Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don't address reality. I mean, look Bill [O'Reilly], I'm not a bigot, you know the kind of books I've written on the civil rights movement in this country, but when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous. Now, I remember also that when the Times Square bomber was at court, I think this was just last week. He said the war with Muslims, America's war is just beginning, first drop of blood. I don't think there's any way to get away from these facts. But I think there are people who want to somehow remind us all as President Bush did after 9/11, it's not a war against Islam.[7]

According to NPR, the remarks were "inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR."[8] As to the reason for the termination of Williams' contract, NPR’s CEO Vivian Schiller offered the following comment, "News analysts may not take personal public positions on controversial issues; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts..."[9] Some observers have questioned whether NPR actually fired Williams for making the comments on Fox News, as opposed to making them in another forum.[10]

On October 21, 2010, NPR CEO Vivian Schiller told an audience at the Atlanta Press Club that Williams' feelings about Muslims should be between him and "his psychiatrist or his publicist—take your pick."[11] Schiller later apologized to the media; however, not to Mr. Williams.[12]

Fox News Channel

He is a regular panelist on Special Report with Bret Baier and Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. He also regularly appears on The O'Reilly Factor and has served as a guest host on the show.[13] After NPR announced his ouster from their network in October 2010, Fox News granted him a new $2 million, three-year contract with an expanded role at their network, which includes a regular guest-host role Friday nights on The O'Reilly Factor.[12]

Following his firing from NPR, Williams appeared on The O'Reilly Factor and offered his thoughts on his role at Fox playing into NPR's decision: "I don't fit in their box. I'm not predictable, black, liberal. You [O'Reilly] were exactly right when you said you know what this comes down to. They were looking for a reason to get rid of me because I'm appearing on Fox News. They don't want me talking to you."[12]

Television

Williams is the recipient of an Emmy Award for his work in television documentary writing, and has earned critical praise for a series of documentaries including Politics: The New Black Power, A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom, Civil Rights and The Press, Riot to Recovery and Dying for Healthcare.[13]

He was the scriptwriter for Oprah Winfrey’s primetime special No One Dies Alone.[14]

Williams' 1988 book, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-65, was written with the Blackside production team[15] as a companion to the first season of the PBS series Eyes on the Prize. His 2003 book, This Far by Faith, is also a companion to a PBS series.[16]

Williams has contributed to a number of national magazines, including Fortune, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Ebony magazine, TIME and GQ. He has also frequented a wide range of television programs including ABC's Nightline, Washington Week on PBS, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.[13]

Personal life

Williams has a son, Tony, who was Senate page and intern for Senator Strom Thurmond from 1996 to 1997, a speechwriter and legislative correspondent for Senator Norm Coleman from 2004 to 2006, and in 2006 ran for Council of the District of Columbia, losing to Tommy Wells. Williams also has another son, Raffi, who is currently studying journalism and playing lacrosse at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. [4]

Selected publications

  • Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. Penguin (Non-Classics). 1988. ISBN 0140096531.
  • Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary. Three Rivers Press. 2000. ISBN 0812932994.
  • This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience. Harper Paperbacks. 2003. ISBN 0060934247.
  • I'll Find a Way or Make One : A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. HarperCollins. 2004. ISBN 0060094532.
  • My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience. Sterling. 2005. ISBN 1402722338.
  • Black Farmers in America. The University Press of Kentucky. 2006. ISBN 0813123992.
  • The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It. Three Rivers Press. 2007. ISBN 030733824X.

References

  1. ^ "Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons to Speak on May 11 at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus Commencement". Long Island University. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  2. ^ "Juan Williams Speaks at 173rd Commencement" (in Lafayette College). Retrieved 8 December 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) [dead link]
  3. ^ "Wittenberg Senior Class Selects Juan Williams As 2007 Commencement Speaker". Wittenberg University. March 13, 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2009.
  4. ^ a b "Tony Williams: young, Republican and no relation to the mayor". The Hill. April 4, 2006. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
  5. ^ "Excerpt of Juan Williams on Fox News, January 26, 2009". YouTube Video. posted by YouTube user: cheldemedo. January 26, 2009. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  6. ^ "'Juan Williams, NPR, and Fox News'". NPR Ombudsman (blog). NPR. February 11, 2009. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  7. ^ ALLEN, MIKE (October 21, 2010). "12 DAYS OUT: D.C.'s Ritz-Carlton is frame for new Nev. ad -- WSJ banner: 'Key Senate Battles Tighten' – NPR ousts Juan Williams over Muslim remarks". Politico.com. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
  8. ^ "NPR Ends Williams' Contract After Muslim Remarks". NPR. October 21, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-21.
  9. ^ "NPR's Firing of Juan Williams Was Poorly Handled". NPR. October 22, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
  10. ^ Kurtz, Howard (21 October 2010). "Was Juan Williams Fired Unfairly". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  11. ^ Mark Memmot (10/21/10)[1] NPR. Retrieved 10/21/10.
  12. ^ a b c "Fox News Gives Juan Williams $2 Million Contract." Article at www.npr.org, Folkenflik, David, 22 October 2010
  13. ^ a b c "'Juan Williams biography at FoxNews.com'". Fox News. Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  14. ^ "No One Dies Alone' Cast & Crew'". Retrieved 4 August 2010.
  15. ^ http://videoindex.pbs.org/resources/eyes/primary/biblio.html
  16. ^ "'Official "This Far by Faith" page at PBS.org'". Retrieved 4 August 2010.

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