March 7, 2023 Memories flowed this morning as three who were among the first Black women hired by Charlotte TV broadcasters shared the good and the bad, the hilarious and the horrific that they witnessed. Deborah Mann Gibbs, a St. Louis native, joined WBTV in 1975. Just a month earlier, she had ... Continue Reading →
Women who blazed trails in broadcasting
March 19, 2019 Debbie Gibbs said she was unaware at the time that she was a first – the first African American woman to join the reporting staff at local TV station WBTV. "Nobody told me." Years later now, Gibbs knows a thing or three about local journalism, and about its importance in creating ... Continue Reading →