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Remember Charlayne of the University of Georgia...

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Charlayne Hunter-Gault is in New York Doing The Macneil-Lehrer Report

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is now entering her fourth year as correspondent for public television's "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report."

Since joining the weeknightly news series, she has received numerous broadcast awards and honors, including the Good Housekeeping Broadcast Personality of the Year Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Award, the National Commission of Working Women's "Women at Work" award for a program on Katherine Dunham, The Newswomen's Club of New York Front Page Award for the documentary, "A Matter of dignity," and a Lincoln University Unity Award for political reporting.

Ms. Hunter-Gault is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of Skidmore College, and is also on the Journalism Advisory Board of the University of Georgia. She holds honorary doctorates from LeMoyne College and Rhode Island College.

A former metropolitan reporter for The New York Times, Ms. Hunter-Gault specialized in coverage of the urban black community. While at the Times, she won several publisher's awards, including the Naitonal [[National]] Urban Coalition Award for Distinguished Urban Reporting and the aforementioned Lincoln University Unity Award for an article on teenage unemployment. She remained at the newspaper from 1968-76, except for a six-month stint as co-director of the Michele Clark Fellowship program for minority journalists at Columbia University. She served on the jury for the Pulitizer [[Pulitzer]] Prizes in 1977.

Before joining The New York Times, she was a "Talk of the Town" reporter for "The New Yorker" magazine. Later, she won a Russell Sage Fellowship to study at Washington University, where she was on the staff of "Trans-Action" magazine. During 1967, she was part of a special three-person investigative news team at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., where she also anchored the evening news.

Ms. Hunter-Gault's articles have appeared in "The New York Times Magazine," "The New York Times Book Review," "Change," "Saturday Review," "The Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors," "The New Leader," "Essence" and "Ms."

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