Camille Carolyn Knox
Knox is founder and chief content officer of Write Knox Press. She is a journalist with more than 20 years of experience in print, digital and broadcast journalism, in addition to media relations and nonprofit leadership. She has been a reporter, writer or editor for publications that include CBS News, Tampa Bay 28 (WFTS), Tampa Bay Times, Snopes, The Clarion-Ledger, Heart & Soul, Motherlove Project and AOL. She has been featured on a panel for a PBS television program, been interviewed by NPR, The State News and featured in The Penny Hoarder.
A Michigan native, Knox began her career while in high school, spending two summers as a Detroit Free Press apprentice and writing a column in her hometown newspaper, The Southfield-Eccentric.
Knox is a proud graduate of Michigan State University, where she majored in journalism and served as managing editor of The State News. While a student at MSU, she secured newspaper reporting internships around the country at The Oakland Press, the Lansing State Journal, the Akron Beacon Journal and The Oregonian.
As a newspaper reporter, Knox was part of a team that won runner-up honors in Gannett’s Well Done Award in the First Amendment: Project Enterprise category for a project in The Clarion-Ledger on the homicide rate in Jackson, Miss.
She studied narrative writing and photography at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, twice served as a mentor to journalism students during the multimedia student projects at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention, and pitched and served on a panel about community journalism at NABJ.
Knox served as moderator of the Tampa Bay Conference, and has twice served on the media speed pitching panel during Tampa Bay Startup Week. She has twice served as a panelist on the Public Relations Society of Tampa Bay's Media Roundtable. She has also twice served as a speaker at the Florida College System Publications Association Conference, offering interview tips for college journalism students statewide.
She was president of the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists (Tampa Bay's NABJ chapter) for three years, leading the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to win NABJ's Chapter of the Year honor. During her tenure, she performed on-camera television interviews, organized public forums and secured grant money for TBABJ.
Knox has volunteered at United Way, LifePath Hospice, Trinity Cafe and served as a Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor.
Her debut novel, "The Sweetest Fruit," is available for purchase on Amazon.com via eBook or paperback. The novel is also available for checkout through the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative in Tampa, Florida, and is on display in the local authors collection at the Southfield Public Library in her Michigan hometown.
A Michigan native, Knox began her career while in high school, spending two summers as a Detroit Free Press apprentice and writing a column in her hometown newspaper, The Southfield-Eccentric.
Knox is a proud graduate of Michigan State University, where she majored in journalism and served as managing editor of The State News. While a student at MSU, she secured newspaper reporting internships around the country at The Oakland Press, the Lansing State Journal, the Akron Beacon Journal and The Oregonian.
As a newspaper reporter, Knox was part of a team that won runner-up honors in Gannett’s Well Done Award in the First Amendment: Project Enterprise category for a project in The Clarion-Ledger on the homicide rate in Jackson, Miss.
She studied narrative writing and photography at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, twice served as a mentor to journalism students during the multimedia student projects at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention, and pitched and served on a panel about community journalism at NABJ.
Knox served as moderator of the Tampa Bay Conference, and has twice served on the media speed pitching panel during Tampa Bay Startup Week. She has twice served as a panelist on the Public Relations Society of Tampa Bay's Media Roundtable. She has also twice served as a speaker at the Florida College System Publications Association Conference, offering interview tips for college journalism students statewide.
She was president of the Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists (Tampa Bay's NABJ chapter) for three years, leading the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to win NABJ's Chapter of the Year honor. During her tenure, she performed on-camera television interviews, organized public forums and secured grant money for TBABJ.
Knox has volunteered at United Way, LifePath Hospice, Trinity Cafe and served as a Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor.
Her debut novel, "The Sweetest Fruit," is available for purchase on Amazon.com via eBook or paperback. The novel is also available for checkout through the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative in Tampa, Florida, and is on display in the local authors collection at the Southfield Public Library in her Michigan hometown.
