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Clarice Tinsley

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Spouse
  
Stephen Giles (m. 1987)

Years active
  
1975—present

Employer
  
Name
  
Clarice Tinsley

TV shows
  
A Call for Help

Role
  
Broadcaster


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Awards
  
1984 Peabody Award1980 duPont Award

Marriage location
  
Dallas, Texas, United States

Profiles


Occupation
  
Television news anchor

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Clarice Tinsley (born December 31, 1954) is an American broadcast journalist. In November 1978, she moved to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to anchor the ten o'clock news for KDFW-TV (the CBS station for the market at the time, now a Fox O&O). In 1979 the six o'clock news was added to her duties. As of 2012, she is the longest-serving news anchor in the Dallas/Fort Worth television market.

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Prior to KDFW, she spent three years working for WITI-TV in Milwaukee. At WITI her duties included being the host of a monthly community affairs show, news reporter and news anchor.

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Tinsley has appeared as a news anchor or reporter in several Dallas-based television productions, including The Good Guys and Prison Break.

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Awards

In the 1980s, her work on "A Call For Help," an investigative reporting series on problems with Dallas' 911 emergency system, earned KDFW both a Peabody Award in 1984 and a 1980 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for investigative journalism.

In 2007 she was awarded the Director's Community Leadership Award from the FBI.

References

Clarice Tinsley Wikipedia