Charlayne A. Hunter-Gault

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 50 years in the industry, extending her work at various times to all media. Her career in radio, television, and print includes working at PBS, NPR, CNN, the New Yorker, NBC, and the New York Times.

Hunter-Gault worked for 20 years with the PBS NewsHour, alternately as substitute anchor and national, as well as international correspondent . And returned to the NewsHour as Special Correspondent, doing an unprecedented series called Race Matters, focusing on solutions to American’s ongoing race problem.

Her numerous honors include two Emmy awards and two other Peabody awards—the first for her work on "Apartheid's People," a PBS NewsHour series about South African life during apartheid. Over the years, she has been the recipient of numerous other awards for her work and in August, 2005, she was inducted in the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame and in 2015 was inducted into the Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame.

She is the author of four books—the latest an e book, called Corrective Rape, which details the devastating way some men in South Africa attempt to “correct” gay women’s sexual identity; To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement,” a historical narrative for young readers; New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance; and In My Place, a memoir of the Civil Rights Movement, fashioned around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia.

Hunter-Gault is on the board of The Committee to Protect Journalists.