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Washington Earns Recognition

Lyndia Giles Washington, a local business owner and Baylor University journalism professor, has received recognition in the journalism profession.

Washington has received a fellowship from the national Radio Television News Directors Foundation (RTNDF), been named contributing editor for Proud magazine, and has been invited to participate in the People to People Ambassador Program in Russia.

The RTNDF fellowship is part of the Excellence in Journalism project. In this program Washington will work at KFMB-TV, the CBS television affiliate in San Diego, this summer. She is one of 15 journalism professors from across the country selected for the program.

Each professor is assigned to different broadcast entities throughout the country for a month. Patricia Seaman, program director, said Washington was selected for her outstanding academic and professional experience and abilities. "We are very pleased that she will be a part of our program, Seaman said.

As part of the program Washington will spent three days in Washington, D.C., and in the fall she will attend the RTNDF national convention in Minneapolis, Minn., to make a presentation based on her experiences in the program.

Fred D'Ambrosi, KFMB news director, said Washington will be a part of the station's investigative team and will work in various other areas at the station.

In addition to the broadcast work Washington is now editing Proud magazine, a publication of Status Symbol Publishing located in El Paso, Texas.

Washington was named contributing editor by VelKeyta Redding, publisher of the quarterly magazine that targets diversity in journalism.

As part of the People to People program Washington has been asked to go to Russia in October to meet with Russian journalists as "a way of facilitating and promoting citizen diplomacy."

People to People was established

in 1956 by President Dwight Eisenhower.

Washington said she is excited about all the things she is doing. "I love journalism and it makes it extra special when others recognize you for your abilities and accomplishments. I try to keep current and involved in my profession."

Washington teaches journalism at Baylor University in Waco. She recently attended the National Writers Workshop in Austin and presented a paper on technology in the newsroom at the Western Association of Social Science national conference in San Diego. She has been a guest lecturer at Rhodes University in South Africa and is on Board of Contributors for the Waco Tribune Herald.

Among other things Washington has also been a fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and for the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

She is originally from Prescott and is the daughter of Helen Miller and the late C.G. and Rachel Moncrief. Washington owns Lyndia's Fashion Treasury in Prescott.