I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.
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| Birth: | 27th February, 1942 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Journalist |
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Charlayne Hunter Gault was born in Due West, South Carolina. She is an American journalist and former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, and the Public Broadcasting Service. She joined The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1978 as a correspondent, and became The NewsHour's national correspondent in 1983. She left The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in June 1997. During her association with The NewsHour, Hunter-Gault has won additional awards: two Emmys, and a Peabody for excellence in broadcast journalism for her work on Apartheid's People, a NewsHour series on South Africa. She is author of In My Place, a memoir about her experiences at the University of Georgia.
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