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Corey Dade (born December 7, 1972) is an American journalist and reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He covers politics, race and economic and societal trends. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, HLN and CNBC and often can be heard providing political analysis on National Public Radio.

He serves on the board of directors of the Atlanta Press Club and is former president of the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists and the Detroit Chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, which received the 2001 Chapter of the Year award during his term.

Dade was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He attended Grambling State University in Louisiana for nearly two years and played football for the legendary Eddie Robinson, the winningest football coach in collegiate history at the time. He then transferred to the University of Maryland.

He began his career at The Miami Herald, the largest daily newspaper in Florida then. There he exposed police officers illegally working off-duty security jobs while on patrol. His work led to reforms and a racketeering probe by federal authorities. As a City Hall reporter for the Detroit Free Press, the biggest newspaper in Michigan, he covered Mayor Dennis W. Archer and the 2001 election of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who later resigned after his conviction in a text-messaging and sex scandal. He also broke news of a prostitution sting concocted to collect huge fines that were funneled to prosecutors' salaries.

He moved on to the Boston Globe, one of the largest metropolitan dailies in the U.S., and wrote about the early impact of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, which were staged from Boston, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino. He also broke news of the first federal lawsuit seeking reparations for American slavery.

After a brief term at the Atlanta Journal-Constituion, he joined the Wall Street Journal in 2005.

Currently, he’s ramping up for the 2010 midterm elections following his coverage in 2009 of the pivotal Virginia governor’s race, the Atlanta mayoral contest and rising opposition to President Obama’s policies. He also handled major breaking news, such as when he “parachuted” to Florida and led the earliest coverage of the Tiger Woods scandal.

In 2008, he covered the presidential election, traveling with both the Obama and McCain campaigns. He helped wrote the first story thoroughly examining the Obama campaign’s organizing strategy. He broke several stories, including the foreshadowing of Virginia’s historic switch to “blue” two months before Election Day.



Errol A. Cockfield Jr. (born September 14, 1973) is Vice President for Communications and Community Affairs at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and previously served as Press Secretary to Governor of New York David Paterson and his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer. Before moving into politics, he was a newspaper journalist and served as the Albany bureau chief for Newsday.

Cockfield was born in Georgetown, Guyana. He graduated from Stony Brook University with a bachelor's degree in English.[1] After graduating, he was chosen for Tribune Company's prestigious Minority Editorial Training Program and joined the Los Angeles Times as a staff reporter.[2] While in Los Angeles, Cockfield notably interviewed prominent hip hop artists, and wrote about white power skinhead attacks on blacks, prompting the county's Commission on Human Relations to study and address the disturbing trend.[1]

He then joined the Hartford Courant, Connecticut's largest daily newspaper, and later Newsday, serving first as a political reporter for Nassau County, New York, then as New York City economic development reporter, and finally as its Albany Bureau Chief.[2] In New York, his notable journalistic achievements include chronicling events World Trade Center in the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001; detailing a controversial plan to build a taxpayer-financed stadium for the New York Jets in Manhattan; writing about reform of New York's stringent sentencing rules under its Rockefeller drug laws; documenting the state's effort to reinstate the death penalty; and being the he first reporter to document how a lack of state monitoring of assisted living facilities led to patient injuries, and later deaths.[1]

He was elected President of New York Association of Black Journalists from 2001 to 2003, and also sat on the board of the National Association of Black Journalists, and has been a member of both since 1994.[3] He has been a freelance contributor to magazines such as The Source, Upscale, and Vibe, has appeared on television and radio as a commentator on media, journalism and writing, and his original work has won several New York City poetry slam competitions.[1]



Steven Gray is an American journalist whose work has appeared in Time, People, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Times-Picayune, and The Nation. He has appeared on National Public Radio, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC and Chicago Public Radio. He was born in New Orleans, educated in Washington and Brussels, and lives in Chicago.