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May 20, 2021
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(BPRW) Media Matriarch – Gayle King

(Black PR Wire) Gayle King is a leading television personality, author and broadcast journalist for CBS News, co-hosting its flagship morning program, CBS This Morning, a position she has held since its debut in 2012. She is also an editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine. Gayle’s career began as a production assistant at WJZ-TV  in Baltimore, where she met Oprah Winfrey, an anchor for the station at the time. Gayle later trained as a reporter at WUSA-TV  in Washington, D.C. She also served as a weekend anchor and general-assignment reporter at WDAF-TV in Kansas, Missouri.  In 1981, she was hired as a news anchor for WFSB  in Hartford, Connecticut, where she worked for 18 years.  In 2018, Gayle was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. In 2019, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. Gayle King is truly a media powerhouse, go-getter and trend-setter. She is the loving mother to daughter, Kirby, and son, William Bumpus, Jr.

Link:       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayle_King