Ira Hadnot
Dallas High School Journalism Consultant
Ms. Hadnot has more than two decades of experience in journalism, media
relations and nonprofit management. She raised $1 million and ran an
institute created to help the newspaper industry achieve diversity in its
employment ranks. She trained minority reporters, editors and managers at
the University of California, Berkeley, University of Arizona in Tucson,
Northwestern University and Marquette University. She managed staff
publications for each program.
She has degrees in journalism and political science from the University of
Wisconsin. Her work has been published in newspapers, magazines and books.
She has received numerous awards from organizations such as the Dallas Press
Club, Women in Communications, The National Association of Black Journalists
and The Associated Press.
Most recently, she was a religion writer for The Dallas Morning News and
served as president of The Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black
Communicators. She and her husband own The Writing Life, a company for
self-published authors.
In the fall of 2006, she will launch her own religion information company
called Mustard Seed Media and Marketing. The multi-ethnic and multi-faith
company will showcase the work of minority religion writers and teach
congregations how to improve their internal media products and effective
external media relations.
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