Charlayne Hunter-Gault
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault | |
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Hunter-Gault in 2014
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| Born |
Alberta Charlayne Hunter February 27, 1942 Due West, South Carolina, USA |
| Education |
University of Georgia (BAJ) Wayne State University Washington University in St. Louis |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) |
The New York Times The New Yorker |
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| Parent(s) | Charles S.H. Hunter and Althea Brown |
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Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born February 27, 1942) is an American journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting Service.
Alberta Charlayne Hunter was born in Due West, South Carolina, daughter of Charles S. H. Hunter, Col., U.S. Army, a regimental chaplain, and his wife, the former Althea Brown.
In 1961, Athens, Georgia witnessed part of the civil rights movement when Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first two black students to enroll in the University of Georgia. She graduated in 1963.
In 1967, Hunter joined the investigative news team at WRC-TV, Washington, D.C., and anchored the local evening news. In 1968, Hunter-Gault joined The New York Times as a metropolitan reporter specializing in coverage of the urban black community. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a correspondent, becoming The NewsHour's national correspondent in 1983. She left The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in June 1997. She worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, as National Public Radio's chief correspondent in Africa from 1997 to 1999. Hunter-Gault left her post as CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief and correspondent in 2005, which she had held since 1999, though she still regularly appeared on the station, and others, as an Africa specialist.
During her association with The NewsHour, Hunter-Gault 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, a Candace Award for Journalism from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1988, 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. The University of Georgia Academic Building is named for her, along with Hamilton Holmes, as it is called the Holmes/Hunter Academic Building, as of 2001. She has been a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors since 2009 and serves on the Board of Trustees at the Carter Center.
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