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Deborah Myers Mathis (born 24 August 1953) [1] is an American journalist and author. Her journalism career began as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat , a major newspaper in Arkansas. She also worked in television news in Little Rock and Washington. She was White House correspondent for the Gannett News Service. She returned to Arkansas and newspaper journalism at the Arkansas Gazette as an editorial columnist and associate editor.

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Early life and education

Mathis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on August 24, 1953, to Rev. Lloyd H. Myers and Rachel A. Helms Myers. [1] She attended Gibbs Elementary, Rightsell Elementary, Westside Junior High, and Little Rock Central High School, where she was the first black and first female editor of the school's newspaper. [1] [2] She studied journalism at the University of Arkansas. [3]

Career

In 1973, Mathis became a reporter for Channel 11 Dateline News. [3] Her career includes work as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat and the Arkansas Gazette (now merged into the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ), and TV stations KARK-Channel 4 and KATV-Channel 7. [2] She was also a columnist for the Arkansas Gazette, and the first Black member of the Arkansas Gazette editorial board. [4] From 1993 to 2000 she was the White House correspondent for Gannett. [2] [5] In 2000, she was selected as a Fall Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government to examine the role of race in press coverage in a case study. [6]

Mathis is a regular commentator on America's Black Forum and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. She has also appeared as a commentator on NPR . [7] [8] [9]

Mathis is an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. [2]

Works

Honors and awards

Personal life

Mathis lives with her husband and children in Chevy Chase, Maryland.[ citation needed ]

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  4. ↑ Turner, Renée D. (June 1990). "Interracial Couples in the South". Ebony . p. 44. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
  5. ↑ Duffy, Joan I. (20 October 1991). "172-year-old Arkansas Gazette, Civil Rights Champion, Closes". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  6. ↑ "Shorenstein announces fellows". The Harvard Gazette. September 21, 2000. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "Missing Black Women vs. 'Runaway Brides'". NPR News. May 4, 2005. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  8. ↑ "Black Actors Gain Visibility, Fight Stereotypes". NPR News. April 4, 2006. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  9. ↑ "Coming to Terms with a Texas Town's 'Strange Fruit'". NPR News. July 24, 2006. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  10. ↑ "YET A STRANGER: Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home". Publishers Weekly. April 22, 2002. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  11. ↑ "Sole Sisters: The Joys and Pains of Single Black Women". Publishers Weekly. April 16, 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
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