Benjamin A. Davis is Chairman of the Department of Multimedia Journalism at Morgan State University. He is a board member emeritus for the Princeton Prize in Race Relations at Princeton University. Ben served on the launch team for MSNBC.com as an Interactive Producer/editor. He was the Washington Editor for NPR and an Executive Producer for NPR’s Special Projects department. He also served on the Assignment Desk for ABC News in New York. He was a CBS reporter at WBTV News in Charlotte, N.C. In 1992 he was the inaugural Burton R. Benjamin Fellow at the University of Michigan Knight-Wallace Fellowship in Journalism. Ben has won numerous awards for journalism, including two Alfred I. duPont awards for broadcast – one for reporting and the other as Executive Producer. He created a writing model, that builds on the century-old analog-based Inverted Pyramid, called the Digital Media Pyramid about which he wrote the e-book, The Digital Media Pyramid: A Guide for 21st Century Bloggers, Reporters and Citizen Journalists. Ben was a Fulbright Scholar Finalist in 2021. He graduated from Whittier College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and studied international relations at the University of Copenhagen. He taught journalism for 10-years at Rutgers University, three-years at Florida A&M University and seven-years at California State University Northridge.