Legendary Journalist Belva Davis Dishes on Interviewing the Greats
Belva Davis, the first female African-American TV reporter on the West Coast, has paved the way for the likes of Tamron Hall and Soledad O’Brien. She is a true pioneer, a self-taught journalist whose incredible career has spanned print, radio and television.
In our latest So What Do You Do column, Davis talks about how she landed her fig gig at Jet, the reason she never turned down a story in the first decade of her career and why some of her memorable interview moments stand out for the wrong reasons:
I interviewed Jim Jones, who was someone I never wanted to talk to, and I had a poor interview with W.E.B.
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