Redding News Review's Story

     In nine years, Redding News Review - an award-winning nonpartisan Web site covering black news and beyond - has changed journalism and been recognized by legacy media in the process.

     The Web site was started on March 25, 2002 as a part of Publisher Robert "Rob" Redding's now syndicated radio show Redding News Review. Updated hourly, it has evolved into one of the Web's premiere destinations for credible, competitive, consistent news content and a go-to source for legacy and new media.

     The Web site's top content is syndicated hourly by Google News. Its stories are heard regularly on SIRIUSXM Satellite Radio and they have become a regular part of the National Public Radio and Fox News Channel. Its comprehensive coverage of the black community became a resource for Fox News during the Don Imus "nappy-headed ho's" controversy. (See transcript and listen to the audio). Its reports have also been used by Arutz Sheva, Israel's Channel 7 news. Its scoops have also been acknowledged or linked to by ABC News, MSNBC, BET, The Washington Post,The Hill, Roll Call, Politico, The Huffington Post, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Times, The National Newspaper Association and many more. (View Redding News Review in the news).

     The Web site - which has been called "an Internet clearinghouse for African-American news," by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - was the first to report former Mayor and Ambassador Andrew Young's comments on Sen. Barack Obama not being ready to be president. (See story) The site has also been called the "vanguard of Internet news sites" by AllAccess.com writer Perry Michael Simon.

     The Web site was credited by Editor & Publisher for breaking news of the harassment of Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Leonard Pitts by a white supremacist group.

     The Web site has been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists for its Hurricane Katrina coverage. The Web site ran a widely read exclusive pointing out the Drudge Report's questionable use of a photo and headline. The Drudge Report's photo likened black people to being "Trapped like animals." The exclusive report resulted in the photo being taken down and it being run on the black journalists' group's Web site's front page for more than two weeks. (Read the story).

      In December 2004, the site's breaking news coverage prompted Brian Williams, NBC News anchor and managing editor, to apologize for saying there are "bigger problems" than newsroom diversity. The Web site's coverage also spurred the newsman's boss NBC News President Neal Shapiro to vow to redouble the company's minority hiring efforts. (Read more).

      The site has won three consecutive "Black Web Awards" for being the "Best News Distribution" site in 2008 and the "Best News Directory" site in 2009 and 2010.

    ReddingNewsReview.com is under the RCI umbrella.