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Ciara banking on her experience and leadershipBy Regine Labossiere Monitor Staff Barbara Ciara says a vote for her as vice president of broadcast is a vote for experience and leadership. Ciara is the managing editor and evening anchor at WTKR News Channel 3 in Norfolk, Va. She served two terms as Region III Director for NABJ. She was the co-executive producer of NABJ's nationally televised awards program in Nashville, Tenn., which was broadcast on Black Entertainment Television. In 1976 she worked full time at KZAZ-TV in Tucson, Ariz. In 1978, she was the youngest female and first black woman to achieve management status as news director at a commercial television station in the Southwest. She received the 1997 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television News Directors Association. That same year, she was nominated for an Emmy for "Operation Haiti," featuring children living in poverty in the Caribbean country. Her series, "Letters from the Hood," which documented the lives of children who live in violent urban areas, was nominated for an Emmy in 1995. In 2000, Ciara graduated from Hampton University summa cum laude. That same year, she won an Emmy for her series "Guilty 'Til Proven Innocent." Ciara's stories have taken her to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, Europe, and Mexico. Within the United States, Ciara has covered campaigns, a Ku Klux Klan investigation, and segregation on city land at Portsmouth's Bide-A-Wee golf course in Virginia. |
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