Carole Simpson

Carole Simpson (born December 7, 1940)[1] is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. She is the first African-American woman to anchor a major United States network newscast.[2]

Education and career

Simpson, a graduate of the University of Michigan, began her career on radio at WCFL in Chicago, Illinois, and was later hired at WBBM. She moved to television at Chicago's WMAQ and onto NBC News in 1975, becoming the first African-American woman to anchor a major network newscast.[2] She joined ABC News in 1982, and was an anchor for the weekend edition of World News Tonight from 1988 until October 2003.[3]

She became the first woman of color to moderate a presidential debate when she moderated the debate held between George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot, at Richmond, Virginia, in 1992.[3] That same year she was the recipient of the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.[4]

Simpson is on the Advisory Council at the International Women's Media Foundation.[5]

She retired from ABC News in 2006 to begin teaching journalism at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where she taught until 2019.[6]

Simpson is a former member of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation Board of Trustees, an affiliate of the Radio Television Digital News Association. There, she established the Carole Simpson Scholarship to encourage and help minority students overcome hurdles along their career path, which is offered annually to aspiring journalists.[7]

In 2010, her autobiography, Newslady, was published by AuthorHouse.[8]

Personal life

Simpson is a cousin of sportswriter and ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon.[9]

gollark: You still run into externalities like, er, carbon dioxide.
gollark: Ideally we'd be able to partition Earth into... lots of... different areas, set up different governments in each with people who like each one in them, magically fix externalities between them and stop them going to war or something, somehow deal with the issue of ensuring children in each society have a reasonable choice of where to go, and allowing people to be exiled to some other society in lieu of punishment there - assuming other ones will take them, obviously. But that is impractical.
gollark: The reason I support *some* land-value-taxish thing is that nobody creates land, so reward from it should probably go to everyone.
gollark: The only big problem I can see with that is that you can't really have the property/developed stuff on that land separate from the land itself, at least with current technology and use of nonmovable stuff.
gollark: You wouldn't just say "each m² of land costs $0.0001/year in taxes", I think one interesting idea there is to have people *set* a value, have a % of that be taxed, but also force it to be sold at that price if someone wants it.

See also

References
  1. Simpson, Carole (2010). Newslady. AuthorHouse. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4520-6237-2. Carole Simpson december 1941.
  2. Davis, Marianna W., ed. (1982). Contributions of Black Women to American. 1. Columbia, South Carolina: Kenday Press, Inc. p. 305.
  3. "Carole Simpson Bio". Answers.com.
  4. "NABJ Special Honors, Past Winners" Archived April 16, 2013, at Archive.today. National Association of Black Journalists.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 4, 2010. Retrieved 2016-01-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link). International Women's Media Foundation.
  6. "Carole Simpson". emerson.edu. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
  7. "RTDNA Carol Simpson Scholarship".
  8. Simpson, Carole (2010). Newslady. AuthorHouse. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4520-6237-2. Carole Simpson december 1941.
  9. Kornheiser, Tony; Wilbon, Michael (October 21, 2002). "The Chat House". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 23, 2002. Retrieved March 6, 2020.


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