Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne made civil rights history as the first African
American woman to graduate from the University of Georgia in
1962, and has gone on to establish herself as one of
television's premier journalists. She joined The
MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a correspondent, and became
The NewsHour's national correspondent in 1983. In 1989, she
was also a correspondent for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions'
five-part series, Learning in America. Previously, Charlayne served as a "Talk of the Town"
reporter for The New Yorker. After winning a Russell Sage
Fellowship to Washington University, she was on the staff of
Trans-Action magazine. In 1967, she joined the investigative news team at WRC-TV,
Washington, D.C., and also anchored the local evening news.
In 1968, Charlayne joined The New York Times as a
metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban
African American community. Her work was honored with many
awards during her ten years at the paper, including the
National Urban Coalition Award for Distinguished Urban
Reporting. Charlayne has also been published in The New York
Times Magazine, Saturday Review, The New York Times Book
Review, Essence, and Vogue. During her association with The NewsHour, Charlayne has won
additional awards: two Emmys, and a Peabody for excellence
in broadcast journalism for her work on Apartheid's People,
a NewsHour series on South Africa. She also received the
1986 Journalist of the Year Award from the National
Association of Black Journalists; the 1990 Sidney Hillman
Award; the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the
Year Award; the American Women in Radio and Television
Award; and two awards from the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting for excellence in local programming. Charlayne is author of In My Place, (1992), a memoir about
her experiences at the University of Georgia. She is the recipient of more than two dozen honorary degrees. Charlayne is married, has two children, and lives in
Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Books:New News Out of Africa, June 2006
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