Mr. Robert Asher was one of my mini esteemed professors at Howard University in the School of Communications.
He was a very kind person who invited all of his students to the Washington Post to witness firsthand and up close and personal the world of journalism. He stripped everything about it that seemed mysterious and made it extremely tangible and attainable for those of us who inspired to be journalists in an arena that was predominantly white then.
He took his craft very seriously and ensured that we were also well trained underneath his wings. This was back in the 1980s when I was a sophomore.
Because of him I went on to become a journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, BET.com and Fox News Chicago after having been blessed with an excellent foundation with the Philadelphia Inquirer under the great and late Acel Moore. Like Asher and Moore and others I bought numerous students to the various news rules, especially the Chicago Tribune and which many became paid freelance writers and some still remain in the industry.
I will always fondly remember the man who called himself Bob Asher and the excellent department of Print Journalism under than now retired and esteemed Dr. Lawrence Kaggwa.
Mr. Robert Asher was one of my mini esteemed professors at Howard University in the School of Communications.
He was a very kind person who invited all of his students to the Washington Post to witness firsthand and up close and personal the world of journalism. He stripped everything about it that seemed mysterious and made it extremely tangible and attainable for those of us who inspired to be journalists in an arena that was predominantly white then.
He took his craft very seriously and ensured that we were also well trained underneath his wings. This was back in the 1980s when I was a sophomore.
Because of him I went on to become a journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, BET.com and Fox News Chicago after having been blessed with an excellent foundation with the Philadelphia Inquirer under the great and late Acel Moore. Like Asher and Moore and others I bought numerous students to the various news rules, especially the Chicago Tribune and which many became paid freelance writers and some still remain in the industry.
I will always fondly remember the man who called himself Bob Asher and the excellent department of Print Journalism under than now retired and esteemed Dr. Lawrence Kaggwa.