Deborah Mathis

Deborah Myers Mathis (born 24 August 1953)

Career

In 1973, Mathis became a reporter for Channel 11 Dateline News. 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. From 1993 to 2000 she was the White House correspondent for Gannett. In 2000, she was selected as a Fall Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to examine the role of race in press coverage in a case study.

Throughout the 1990s, Mathis was a fixture on TV news and current event talk shows, including America's Black Forum and Oprah, and was a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. She has also appeared as a commentator on NPR.

Mathis was an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Honors and awards

• 2003, inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame

Personal life

Now a freelance writer, Mathis lives in McLean, Virginia. She has three adult children and three granddaughters.

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