Dorothy Butler Gilliam

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Dorothy Butler Gilliam was the first black woman reporter at The Washington Post and helped organise protests against the New York Daily News after it fired two-thirds of its African-American staff, including all of the black male reporters.

In 1997, Gilliam created the Young Journalists Development Program for the Post, which was designed to bring more young people into the journalism world. Post journalists work with students at local high schools, and in some cases, the Post prints the high school newspapers for the schools.