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Belva Davis Signs Off After Storied Career

Scott Shafer
Emmy Award-winning veteran journalist Belva Davis is retiring as host of KQED Public Television's "This Week in Northern California" after nearly two decades. Davis was the first female African-American television journalist in the West, and has covered many of the biggest stories in the Bay Area over the past half century. She joins guest host Scott Shafer to discuss her trailblazing career.
 (Greg Habiby/KQED)

Emmy Award-winning veteran journalist Belva Davis is retiring as host of KQED Public Television’s “This Week in Northern California” after nearly two decades. Davis was the first female African-American television journalist in the West, and has covered many of the biggest stories in the Bay Area over the past half century. She joins guest host Scott Shafer to discuss her trailblazing career.

 

Guests:

Belva Davis, journalist and host of KQED Public Television's "This Week in Northern California" and author of "Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism" (with Vicki Haddock)

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