Longtime Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore has died after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. She was 53.
WSB-TV, where Moore had worked since 1998, announced Friday that Moore died Thursday night from glioblastoma.
“After a nearly 7-month battle with an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer, our colleague and friend Jovita Moore has passed away,” Moore’s co-anchor Justin Farmer said in a video posted on the station’s website. “She passed last night, as she wanted, with her family by her side. She passed peacefully.”
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