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Chicago Defender appoints Ronald Childs to Executive Editor post
 (March
4, 2013) The Chicago Defender, one of the nation's oldest
African-American newspapers, has named Ronald E. Childs Executive
Editor. In his new position Childs, 53, will oversee the editorial
content of the newspaper and its digital platforms.
The 108-year-old Defender is the flagship publication of Detroit-based
Real Times Media roster which also includes The New Pittsburgh Courier,
The Memphis Tri-State Defender, The Michigan Chronicle, The Michigan
FrontPage, and The Atlanta Daily World newspapers, their companion
digital titles and websites and Who's Who Publishing.
An award-winning journalist, editor and photographer, Childs' work has
appeared in numerous publications worldwide, among them such respected
periodicals as Black Enterprise, Black Issues In Higher Education, The
Black Collegian, EM-EBONY MAN, Jet, UPSCALE, Dollars & Sense, Black
Elegance, Minorities & Women In Business and Today's Black Woman
magazines
Prior to joining the Chicago Defender, Childs was founder and principal of OMEN Communications, a media relations firm, and an
advisor to Moguldom Media Group, one of the nation's largest networks of owned and
operated digital brands focusing on African Americans.
Child served as Vice President of media relations for Chicago-based
Flowers Communications Group. During his ten years at FCG, Childs
worked with a number of blue-chip clients, including American Honda,
McDonald's, MillerCoors, Kmart and Sears and the Chicago White Sox.
A Grambling State University graduate, Childs has held a number of
high-level communications positions, including Assistant Director of
publicity for Johnson Publishing Company, and Associate Editor for JPC's
EM - Ebony Man magazine. He was communications specialist and
speechwriter to Chicago's late Mayor Harold Washington, and media
strategist and Senior Account Executive with Burrell Communications
Group.
Childs is former Executive Vice President of the Black Public Relations
Society of Chicago, and a member of the National Black Public Relations
Society, the National Association of Black Journalists' national and
Chicago chapters, and is founder of the Chicago alumni chapter of
Grambling State University.
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