Redding News Review is a breaking Black news web site and syndicated radio show founded by Robert Rob Redding

Rob Redding

Robert "Rob" Redding, Jr. is an American political commentator, independent journalist, artist, author and social entrepreneur. Redding is publisher of Redding News Review and hosts a nationally syndicated talk radio show and podcast.-Background:Redding is the son of Rev...

 Jr. on March 25, 2002. He started the site to complement his talk radio

Talk radio

Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...

 program while at WAOK-AM in Atlanta.

Radio show

The web site's stories are heard regularly on Redding's Sirius XM Radio show. The show is also heard on numerous radio stations - including WAOK-AM in Atlanta and WURD

WURD

WURD is an AM radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It broadcasts at 900 kHz with a talk format primarily targeted to African-Americans, and is currently under the ownership of Levas Communications Inc.-History:...

-AM in Philadelphia.

Web site

The web site's stories have become a regular part of National Public Radio and Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...

. Its comprehensive coverage of the black community became a resource for Fox News during the Don Imus

Don Imus

John Donald "Don" Imus, Jr. is an American radio host, humorist, philanthropist and writer. His nationally-syndicated talk show, Imus in the Morning, is broadcast throughout the United States by Citadel Media and relayed on television by the Fox Business Network.-Personal life:Imus was born in...

 "nappy-headed ho's" controversy. Its reports have also been used by Arutz Sheva

Arutz Sheva

Arutz Sheva is an Israeli media network identifying with Religious Zionism. It offers online news in English, Hebrew, French, Spanish and Russian. Arutz Sheva offers free podcasts, live streaming radio, a daily email news update, streaming video and 24 hour updated text news...

, Israel's Channel 7 news. Its scoops have also been acknowledged or linked to by ABC News

ABC News

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, BET

Bet

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, MSNBC

MSNBC

MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...

, The Hill

The Hill (newspaper)

The Hill, a subsidiary of News Communications Inc., is a newspaper published in Washington, D.C. since 1994.Its first editor was Martin Tolchin, a veteran correspondent in the Washington bureau of The New York Times....

, Roll Call

Roll Call

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, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Times, and The National Newspaper Association.

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

Andrew Young

Andrew Jackson Young is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served as Mayor of Atlanta, a Congressman from the 5th district, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations...

's comments on Senator Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...

 not being ready to be president. 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

Editor & Publisher

Editor & Publisher is a monthly magazine covering the North American newspaper industry. It is based in New York City. E&P calls itself "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry" and describes itself on its website as "the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North...

for breaking news of the harassment of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts

Leonard Pitts

Leonard Pitts Jr. is a politically progressive African American commentator, journalist and novelist. He is a nationally-syndicated columnist and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary...

 by a white supremacist group. The web site has been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists for its Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina

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 coverage.

In December 2004, the site's breaking news coverage prompted Brian Williams

Brian Williams

Brian Douglas Williams is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004...

, NBC News

NBC News

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 anchor and managing editor, to apologize for saying there are "bigger problems" than newsroom diversity. The web site's coverage also spurred NBC News President Neal Shapiro

Neal Shapiro

Neal B. Shapiro is the president of PBS station Thirteen/WNET New York City, installed in February 2007. He is the chief executive of the station's license holder, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation , which also operates the Long Island, New York, PBS outlet WLIW.- Life and Career :Shapiro...

to vow to redouble the company's minority hiring efforts.

Awards

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 1010.