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- Boston Globe
GBH's Callie Crossley to be inducted into NABJ Hall of Fame
Crossley's career has spanned radio, television, film, and online media. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Gold Baton DuPont Columbia award, a national Edward R. Murrow Award, and a national Emmy, according to her
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She also received an Oscar nomination for her work as a producer, director, and writer on the PBS documentary series 'Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years.'
Crossley's GBH biography describes her as 'a woman for all media,' highlighting her work as a commentator, public speaker, writer, broadcast journalist, and filmmaker.
Crossley, who graduated from Wellesley College and was a Harvard Nieman Fellow, also spent 13 years as a producer for the ABC News program '20/20,' where she reported on medical stories including male menopause, breast cancer in young women, and a potential link between viral infection and recycled air in airplanes, according to her biography.
This year's NABJ Hall of Fame class will be inducted Friday at the group's annual convention in Cleveland.
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The other inductees are Pam Moore, a longtime anchor for KRON4 in San Francisco; Gregory L. Moore, the former top editor of The Denver Post and a former manager editor for The Boston Globe; Leon H. Carter, a former sports editor for the New York Daily News and ESPN vice president who is now editor-at-large for The Athletic; Cecil Williams, a photojournalist for more than six decades who 'owns the largest image collection of racial change in America'; Bob Reid, a winner of three national Emmys and the first broadcast journalist to serve as NABJ's president from 1979 to 1981; Leon D. Bibb, a Cleveland newscaster who has spent more than 50 years in television news; and Wayne Dawson, an 11-time Emmy winner and ordained minister who serves as co-anchor of WJW/Fox 8 New in the Morning in Cleveland.
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