Carole simpson abc news anchor

American journalist

Carole Simpson (born December 7, )^[1][2] is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author.

She is the first African-American woman to anchor a major United States network newscast.^[3]

Education and career

Simpson, a graduate of the University of Michigan,^[2] began her career on radio at WCFL in Chicago, Illinois, and was later hired at WBBM.

She moved to television at Chicago's WMAQ and on to NBC News in , becoming the first African-American woman to anchor a major network newscast.^[3] She joined ABC News in , and was an anchor for the weekend edition of World News Tonight from until October ^[2]

See also: United States presidential debates

She became the first woman of color to moderate a presidential debate when she moderated the debate held between George H.

W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot, at Richmond, Virginia, in ^[2] That same year she was t