Sunday, July 22 at 8:00 pm
In this installment of Valerie Jackson In Conversation, we speak with longtime Atlanta news anchor Monica Pearson…or as many Atlantans knew her for years, Monica Kaufman. Pearson will be retiring on July 25th.
The University of Louisville graduate was a reporter with The Louisville Times for 5 years. In 1969 she participated in the Summer Program for Minority Groups, later called The Michelle Clark Fellowship, at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, New York. She worked in public relations for Brown-Forman Distillers before she joined WHAS-TV in Louisville, as a reporter and anchor for 3 years. She is a native of Louisville, Ky, growing up in what is known as Smoketown and graduating from an all girls Catholic High School, Presentation Academy, where she has established a scholarship in her name.
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