Valerie Coleman - The News Anchor is Not in the Catbird Seat Anymore
Thursday Luncheon Speaker
Valerie Coleman Morris, Emmy Award winning News Anchor talks about hot button topics in today's current news and how news coverage has changed.
Valerie Coleman Morris is considered a Bay Area legend when it comes to television news. She began her career in the early 70s in San Francisco at KRON-TV as a reporter and then KGO-TV as a long time anchor. She was part of the Van Amburg/Jerry Jensen/Pete Giddings news team that branded "happy talk" as a news genre.
Morris is a former CNN domestic and international business anchor, three-time Emmy Award winner, part of the KCBS Radio Peabody Award winning team coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake and creator of the long running radio column “With the Family in Mind”, which aired nationally on CBS Network Radio. Her first book was “IT’S YOUR MONEY SO TAKE IT PERSONALLY ®”
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