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Charlayne Hunter-Gault  Television, Radio Journalist

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Behind the Lines, 1976

In this excerpt from the public affairs program Behind the Lines, Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks about the need to focus on the human aspect of a news story rather than just the statistics.
 

Career Includes

Contributor, The New Yorker (1963–67); Anchor, WRC-TV; Metropolitan Reporter, Harlem Bureau Chief, The New York Times (1968–78); National Correspondent, PBS, The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (1978–97); Author, In My Place (1992), New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance (2006); Anchor, Rights and Wrongs (1992–97); Chief Correspondent in Africa, NPR(1997–99); Johannesburg Correspondent and Bureau Chief, CNN (1999–2005); Special Correspondent, NPR (2005– )
 

Education

University of Georgia, 1963, BA, Journalism
 

Born

February 27, 1942
Due West, South Carolina

 

 

 

 

 


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