Redding's Web site and radio show, which are both called Redding News Review, are responsible for breaking stories.
Redding News Review exposed former Atlanta Mayor and United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young's comments about Sen. Barack Obama not being ready to be president.
The Web site exposed that syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts was being threatened by a white supremacist group.
The Web site exposed NBC Nightly News Managing Editor and Anchor Brian Williams comments about diversity not being a big issue. Both Williams and NBC apologized for those comments.
The Web site's top content is syndicated hourly by Google News. Its stories are heard regularly on NPR and the Fox News Channel. Its comprehensive coverage of the black community became a resource for Fox News during the Don Imus' "nappy-headed ho's" controversy. Its scoops have also been acknowledged or linked to by BET, MSNBC, The Hill, Roll Call, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Washington Post,The 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 - won Black Web Awards in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
The radio show comes after Redding was named one of the "100 most important radio talk show hosts in America" by industry trade Talkers magazine.
He has also been called a "rising star" (Talkers magazine), "one of the most respected names in the media" (Upscale magazine), "one of the most intellectual and intriguing radio talk show hosts since Tavis Smiley" (Radio Facts) and awarded a proclamation by the Atlanta City Council for his hard hitting uniquely Independent talk radio show.
In addition to being on the air nationwide, he was once one of the only black program directors of a mainstream conservative talk radio station, KMLB-AM in Monroe, Louisiana.
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