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Highlights of the 15th Women in Media-Newark International Film Festival and a feature on Fredericka Mandelbaum

15th Women in Media-Newark International Film Festival runs through August 3
Women in Media-Newark
15th Women in Media-Newark International Film Festival runs through August 3

On the July 27 WBGO Journal...

Host Doug Doyle talks about the 15th annual Women in Media Newark International Film Festival with three filmmakers and Women in Media Newark Executive Director Pamela Morgan

And WBGO’s Jon Kalish tells us about a new book about Fredericka Mandelbaum, a German Jewish immigrant in 19th century New York who build and ran America’s first major organized crime organization.

Fredericka Mandelbaum
Random House
Fredericka Mandelbaum

Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.