{"id":1917,"date":"2019-08-24T22:17:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/?page_id=1917"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:12:01","slug":"angela-dodson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/hof\/angela-dodson\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Dodson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full xl:container mx-auto px-6\">\n<h2 class=\"lead\">Class of 1973<\/h2>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\"><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-4\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/files\/HOF-Dodson-300x415.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot image of Angela Dodson\" width=\"300\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-8\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\"><div class=\"\">\n<p>Associated with\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0since 1983, Angela Dodson began her newspaper, magazine and book editing career as an intern at the\u00a0<em>Charleston Gazette<\/em>. The 1973 graduate of Marshall\u2019s School of Journalism and Mass Communications accepted a full-time position with the\u00a0<em>Huntington Advertiser<\/em>, and went on to serve as a news correspondent in the Washington, D.C. bureau for the\u00a0<em>Advertiser\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>parent company, Gannett. In 1979 Dodson received her M.A. degree in journalism and public affairs from American University. She worked for the\u00a0<em>Rochester Times Union<\/em>, for the\u00a0<em>Washington Star<\/em>, and for the\u00a0<em>Louisville Courier Journal<\/em>, and in l983 she moved on to the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0as a copy editor on the national desk. She was promoted to editor for the Living section and head of the Style Department. In 1992 she became the first African American woman to serve as a senior editor at the\u00a0<em>New York Times.\u00a0<\/em>Dodson left the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0in 1995, but she continued writing and editing for a variety of publications including\u00a0<em>Essence, DIVERSE: Issues in Higher Education\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Black Issues Book Review,\u00a0<\/em>of which she became executive editor in 2003. Dodson formed Editorsoncall LLC, a service that connects clients to editors, writers, photographers, graphic artists and consultants, in 2012. She is the host of an award-winning radio program\u00a0<em>Black Catholics, Yes!,<\/em>\u00a0she taught writing and editing for multiple organizations including\u00a0 the National Black Writers Conference, the National Association of Black Journalists, the American Press Institute, the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Maynard Institute. She is also a past secretary of the National Association of Black Journalists. Dodson was named a Distinguished Alumna in the School of Journalism at Marshall in 1988, she received a Black Achiever in Industry ward from the Harlem YMCA in 1990, she was honored as the Black Alumna of the Year at Marshall University in 1998, and in 2000 she received the Feature Writing Award from the New York Association of Black Journalists. Her book,\u00a0<em>Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box,\u00a0<\/em>highlighting women\u2019s impact on U.S. politics was published in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 1973<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":1654,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-legacy.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1917","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1917\/revisions\/3123"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/jmc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}