Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer

Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer - Hardcover

$35.00
$35.00
Skip to product information
Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer
  • Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer
Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer - Hardcover

Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer - Hardcover

by Liann Tsoukas , Rob Ruck
$35.00
$35.00

Book Overview

by Liann Tsoukas (Author), Rob Ruck (Author)

Mal Goode (1908-1995) became network news's first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for local radio. With his basso profundo voice resonating on the airwaves, Goode challenged the police, politicians, and segregation, while providing Black listeners a voice that captured their experience. Race prevented him from breaking into television until Jackie Robinson dared ABC to give him a chance. Goode was uncompromising in his belief that network news needed Black voices and perspectives if it were to authentically reflect the nation's complexities. His success at ABC initiated the slow integration of network news. Goode's life and work are remarkable in their own right, but his struggles and achievements also speak to larger issues of American life and the African American experience.

Author Biography

Liann Tsoukas (Author)
Liann Tsoukas teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh, where her courses focus on African American history, US surveys, contemporary US history, and gender and sport. Tsoukas directs the sport studies certificate and serves as an assistant dean as well as the History Department's director of undergraduate studies. She has been recognized with several honors including the 2023 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Rob Ruck (Author)
Rob Ruck is a historian at the University of Pittsburgh, where he teaches and writes about sport. He focuses on how people use sport to tell a collective story about who they are to themselves and the world. He is the author of Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL, Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game, and Rooney: A Sporting Life, among other titles. His documentaries Kings on the Hill: Baseball's Forgotten Men and The Republic of Baseball: Dominican Giants of the American Game appeared on PBS.

Number of Pages: 484
Dimensions: 1.58 x 8.61 x 5.99 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: April 23, 2024
ISBN9780822948223
Author Liann Tsoukas , Rob Ruck
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
GenreBiography and Education
FormatHardcover
PublishedApril 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages484
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction Social Science

1% fer Each of the Seven Seas

Every purchase sends 7% of our profits to The Ocean Cleanup. No fine print, no opt-in — just how we sail.

Whoever Ye Be, Welcome Aboard

Queer lit, music, art, philosophy, fiction — stories for every kind of soul. Come as ye are, matey.

About Rob Ruck

Edward K. Muller is professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh and former director of the university's Urban Studies Program. He focuses on the history and geography of North American cities, particularly Pittsburgh. He is coauthor of Making Industrial Pittsburgh: Environment, Landscape, Transportation, Energy, and Planning and Before Renaissance: Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943, among other books, and editor of An Uncommon Passage: Traveling through History on the Great Allegheny Passage Trail and DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good, among other books. Rob Ruck (Author)

You may also like