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She was the first female news anchor in American history to anchor the 6:00pm and 11:00pm broadcasts in March 1973 while anchoring the news at WILX-TV in Lansing, Michigan. After four years at WILX-TV in Lansing, she was offered a job working as a reporter and 11pm news anchor for WJBK-TV (CBS) in Detroit, where she worked for six years.
Though she is now retired from television news, her daughter (also named Amyre Makupson) was recently a primary news anchor at WGXA in Macon, GA. Amyre II has since been hired by, ironically, her mother's old stations WWJ and WKBD, as "executive producer of community impact" for the new CBS News Detroit , set to launch in January 2023.
Carole Simpson (born December 7, 1940) [1] [2] is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. She is the first African-American woman to anchor a major United States network newscast. She is the first African-American woman to anchor a major United States network newscast.
Jacobson graduated from the University of Michigan in 1993 [2] with a Bachelor of Arts in English and communications and was a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her first television job was in Traverse City, Michigan, at WPBN/WTOM-TV, where she spent two years as a fill-in news anchor and weekend sports anchor, producer, and editor.
In 1995–97, Maher worked as a news anchor for WJRT-TV in Flint, Michigan, covering breaking news, including the Oklahoma City bombing and the Decker farm raid. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] From 1997 to 2002, she was a Chicago-based CBS Newspath correspondent and covered notable stories such as the impeachment of Bill Clinton , the Kosovo crisis and the ...
Payne began in television news as an intern at ABC affiliate WNWO (channel 24, now an NBC affiliate) in Toledo, Ohio, within months was promoted to main anchor of the station's late evening newscast. Payne later moved to NBC affiliate WNEM-TV (channel 5, now a CBS affiliate) in Saginaw, Michigan, as the co-anchor of the 6 and 11 p.m. newscast. [4]
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Carl Quintanilla, anchor of the Sunday edition of Today and NBC Nightly News (born in Midland) Amy Robach, ABC news correspondent (born in St. Joseph) H.G. Salsinger, sports editor of Detroit News (1909–1958) (born in Ohio, moved to Detroit) Jay Schadler, ABC television news correspondent (born and raised in St. Joseph)