Mikaya Thurmond

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Mikaya Thurmond is an American television journalist who formerly worked as a weekday morning anchor [1] at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. An Atlanta, Georgia native, she is a graduate of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and of Harvard Extension School. [2] She held the title of Miss Georgia 2009 and became the International titleholder for the Miss International Organization in 2010. [3]

In February 2022, she became the benefactor of the Mikaya Thurmond Scholarship that will be available to contestants in the Miss North Carolina competition to encourage women to study journalism. [4] On July 25, 2022, she announced her departure from WRAL-TV effective August 12, 2022. [5]

References

  1. ↑ News & Observer
  2. ↑ "Faculty of Arts and Sciences 2017–2018 Student Prize Recipients" (PDF). prizes.fas.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved 10 July 2023.
  3. ↑ Byrd, Kelsey (September 14, 2010). "World travel scheduled as student's pageant reign begins". The Red & Black. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  4. ↑ "WRAL's Mikaya Thurmond starting scholarship to help women become journalists". WRAL News. February 22, 2022. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  5. ↑ "WRAL anchor announces departure from the station". News and Observer . July 25, 2022. Retrieved July 25, 2022.
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