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Speaker: Belva Davis, Television Journalist Belva Davis is an award-winning journalist who has covered Bay Area politics for three decades. She was the first African American woman hired to work on television in the western United States. She is now one of only 500 journalists nationally to be profiled in the NEWSEUM, the world's first interactive museum of news. Davis got her start as a reporter for Black owned newspapers, and was the women's editor for the San Francisco Sun reporter. Her probing community based reporting has won her life time achievement awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Northern California Chapter, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Peralta Community College District and her alma mater Berkeley High School. She has earned six local Emmy's for her reporting, and two honorary Doctorates for her television work and community service. Belva Davis started her television career at KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, before moving to KQED the public television station, where she anchored the nightly news. For nearly two decades she worked as a reporter and program host for KRON - TV, the NBC affiliate station in the Bay Area. She is currently the host of KQED's Friday night current affairs program "This Week In Northern California," and a special assignment reporter for KRON. |