Carmen Fields

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Carmen Fields
Education Boston University (MS), Lincoln University (BA)
Occupation(s)Journalist and writer
Father Ernie Fields

Carmen Fields is a Boston journalist.

Early life, education, and career

Fields grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was raised by her parents, Bernice Copeland Fields and musician Ernie Fields. [1]

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Fields majored in journalism at Lincoln University, Missouri. [2] Fields also studied at Boston University's School of Communication and graduated with a master's degree in broadcast journalism in 1973. [1] Fields' first journalism job was at the Boston Globe. Fields went on to work as a television reporter and anchor. Fields was part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe that reported on school desegregation in Boston. [3] Fields' interview with Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, in 1980 was nominated for a regional Emmy. [1]

She was also an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University. [4] In 2023, Fields published Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band, a book based on her father's travels with his band during the Jim Crow. [5] [6] [7] She is married to author, Lorenz Finison. [8]

Recognition

In 2023, she was recognized as one of "Boston’s most admired, beloved, and successful Black Women leaders" by the Black Women Lead project. [9] [10] [11] Fields was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with the Globe team for (COM’73) for its coverage of the bitter racial divide over court-ordered busing to desegregate the city’s schools in 1975. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Carmen Fields Tells Her Story". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  2. ↑ Staff, Community Advocate (2024-11-02). "Award-winning journalist Carmen Fields shares her most personal story". Fifty Plus Advocate. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  3. 1 2 "Opening Doors: Carmen Fields (COM'73), Pioneering Journalist". Boston University. 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  4. ↑ "Carmen Fields". GBH. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  5. ↑ "Boston journalist Carmen Fields tells the story of her father's territory big band". www.wbur.org. 2024-01-30. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  6. ↑ Osborn, Angela (2025-02-06). "Going Back to T-Town: The Ernie Fields Territory Big Band by Carmen Fields". Boston Athenaeum. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  7. ↑ "Music and memories: Local journalist Carmen Fields recalls her musician father in debut book – The Bay State Banner". baystatebanner.com. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  8. ↑ "Needham resident will discuss her life and career in the information and entertainment business". The Rotary Club of Needham. April 26, 2022. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
  9. ↑ "Black Women Lead". Greater Grove Hall Main Streets. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  10. ↑ Sullivan, Mike (2023-10-04). "Portraits along Blue Hill Avenue honor Boston's Black women leaders". CBS Boston. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  11. ↑ Gaskin, Ed (10 April 2025). Black Women Lead: Boston's Most Admired, Beloved, and Iconic Leaders, 1700 - Present. Independently published. ISBN   979-8317465209.
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