LA Reporter Cries After Hearing She Won Award
KNBC Reporter Beverly White admits that she got emotional after learning that she was selected to receive the prestigious Chuck Stone Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Association of Black Journalists.
“At first I thought [NABJ] President Sarah Glover was joking,” White told Urban Hollywood 411. “Then it sank in, and I wept.”
The award is named after Chuck Stone, the late columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and former Tuskegee Airman, who died in 2014.
White has been part of the KNBC news team for more than two decades and is also no stranger to the NABJ.
She is a three-time past president of NABJ-Los Angeles and went to her first NABJ convention in 1985.
"I’ve always loved NABJ. And I’m deeply moved to know she loves me back,” she said.
White will receive her award at the Salute to Excellence gala during the NABJ Convention and Career Fair on Saturday, Aug. 4 in Detroit.