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Cheryl Devall
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Senior News Editor, KPCC |
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Advisory Board Member |
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Cheryl Devall is an editor at KPCC-FM in Los Angeles, the leading public radio news station in Southern California. Her long experience in journalism includes three years as a senior editor at Marketplace. While there, she taught the first public radio production course offered at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication as a member of the adjunct faculty.
Devall is a former Los Angeles correspondent for the San Jose Mercury News. She has also reported for the Chicago Tribune, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Boston Globe.
For 11 years, Devall reported for National Public Radio, first from Chicago and later from Miami. During the 1995-96 academic year, Devall was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in sociology from Harvard University's Radcliffe College, and a Master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Devall has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2006 duPont-Columbia Award, Gracie Award, Harry Chapin Media Award, Casey Medal, Edward R. Murrow Award for "North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty," WUNC-FM, 1989 duPont-Columbia Award, National Assn. of Black Journalists Award, Ohio State Award for "AIDS in Black America: Breaking the Silence," and the 1991 Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Award for "The Great Divide: Affirmative Action in America." |
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