At their annual Salute to Excellence Awards, the locally-based National Association of Black Journalists welcomed Emmy Award-winnning and ex-officio RTNDA member Kathy Times as their new president. Times recently unveiled NABJ360, which she calls "Media Bistro, Facebook and Amazon.com rolled into one".

As we reported earlier, other NABJ honors were also handed out:

Journalist of the Year - Michele Norris, NPR
Lifetime Achievement Award - Michael Wilbon, WaPo/ESPN
Emerging Journalist of the Year - Cynthia Gordy ESSENCE