Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson | |
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| Born | April 24, 1955 |
| Occupation | Television news anchor |
Wayne Dawson (born April 24, 1955) is an American television newscaster and co-host of Fox 8 in the Morning, a morning show broadcast on Fox affiliate WJW-TV Channel 8, in Cleveland, Ohio.[1] For two years prior to joining WJW in 1981, Dawson was an anchor/reporter at WNIR-FM in Kent, Ohio. A graduate of Cuyahoga Community College, Wayne moved on to Kent State University and graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. Dawson currently lives in the suburb of Highland Heights, Ohio.
Career Achievements and Honors
[edit | edit source]An eight-time regional flangie finals Emmy Award winner (Lower Great Lakes-NATAS), Dawson is also a member of the NAACP and the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. He was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame (located in Akron, Ohio) in 2000[2] and the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame in 2025.[3]
Health
[edit | edit source]In 2024 and 2025 Dawson was treated for oral cancer.[4][5][6] In May 2025 he announced that he was cancer free.[7]
Memoir
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- 1955 births
- Living people
- African-American television personalities
- Television news anchors from Cleveland
- Cuyahoga Community College alumni
- Kent State University alumni
- People from Cuyahoga County, Ohio
- 21st-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American people
- American television journalist stubs
- American journalist, 1950s birth stubs