Linsey Davis talks with veteran journalist Melba Tolliver about her prep work for and moderation of the recent Harris/Trump Presidential Debate. This zoom webinar will be recorded live at noon, on October 7th, at Lafayette College’s William E. Simon Center. Join the webinar at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81043109697
Linsey Davis is currently an anchor for ABC News Live Prime, which is ABC News Live’s first-ever streaming evening newscast, and weekend “World News Tonight” on Sundays. She is a correspondent filing reports for “World News Tonight,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and “Nightline.”
Davis joined ABC News as a New York-based correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service. Before joining the network in June 2007, Davis was anchor of the weekend evening newscasts at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. She started out as a reporter in 2003 and, during her time there, reported from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, from Torino for the 2006 Winter Olympics and from Athens for the 2004 Summer Olympics. From 2001-2003, she was a reporter at WJRT-TV, the ABC owned station in Flint, Michigan. Davis has received several honors for her reporting, including two Emmy® Awards and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
Davis’ six children’s books, “The Smallest Spot of a Dot” (January 2023), “How High is Heaven” (February 2022), “The World is Awake” (February 2019), “One Big Heart” (August 2019) and “Stay This Way Forever” (February 2021), and “Girls of the World: Doing More Than Ever Before” (March 2024) have all become bestsellers.
Melba Tolliver is the author of Accidental Anchorwoman: A Memoir of Chance, Choice, Change, and Connection (2024). In 1967, by accident, Melba Tolliver was the first Black American to anchor network news. Famously, her insistence on wearing her hair in an Afro when covering the White House wedding of Tricia Nixon earned retaliation from the ABC bosses. In her memoir Accidental Anchorwoman, reporting with wit and humor from her ninth decade, Melba shares provocative thoughts about civil rights, the women’s movement, identity, and journalistic objectivity.
Linsey Davis talks with veteran journalist Melba Tolliver about her prep work for and moderation of the recent Harris/Trump Presidential Debate. This zoom webinar will be recorded live at noon, on October 7th, at Lafayette College’s William E. Simon Center. Join the webinar at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81043109697
Linsey Davis is currently an anchor for ABC News Live Prime, which is ABC News Live’s first-ever streaming evening newscast, and weekend “World News Tonight” on Sundays. She is a correspondent filing reports for “World News Tonight,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and “Nightline.”
Davis joined ABC News as a New York-based correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service. Before joining the network in June 2007, Davis was anchor of the weekend evening newscasts at WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. She started out as a reporter in 2003 and, during her time there, reported from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, from Torino for the 2006 Winter Olympics and from Athens for the 2004 Summer Olympics. From 2001-2003, she was a reporter at WJRT-TV, the ABC owned station in Flint, Michigan. Davis has received several honors for her reporting, including two Emmy® Awards and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award.
Davis’ six children’s books, “The Smallest Spot of a Dot” (January 2023), “How High is Heaven” (February 2022), “The World is Awake” (February 2019), “One Big Heart” (August 2019) and “Stay This Way Forever” (February 2021), and “Girls of the World: Doing More Than Ever Before” (March 2024) have all become bestsellers.
Melba Tolliver is the author of Accidental Anchorwoman: A Memoir of Chance, Choice, Change, and Connection (2024). In 1967, by accident, Melba Tolliver was the first Black American to anchor network news. Famously, her insistence on wearing her hair in an Afro when covering the White House wedding of Tricia Nixon earned retaliation from the ABC bosses. In her memoir Accidental Anchorwoman, reporting with wit and humor from her ninth decade, Melba shares provocative thoughts about civil rights, the women’s movement, identity, and journalistic objectivity.
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