Jovita Moore Inducted Into Atlanta Press Club Hall Of Fame

ATLANTA, GA — A little more than a year of her passing, famed Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore was inducted Thursday into the Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame.

Moore was an anchor at Channel 2 Action News, WSB-TV. The outlet reported she died in October 2021 after a seven-month battle with brain cancer. According to Channel 2, she had been with the news station since 1998.

According to the Press Club, Moore was an Emmy award-winning T.V. reporter. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Bennington College and a master of science degree in broadcast journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York.

She had been an anchor for WMC-TV in Memphis and KSFM in Fayetteville and Fort Smith, Arkansas, prior to Channel 2, according to the Press Club.

Moore has won several Emmy awards for her work and was inducted into the Silver Circle in 2017 by the Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, according to the Press Club.

In October, Channel 2 reported the WSB-TV news studio was renamed by Cox Media Group as the Jovita Moore Memorial News Studio.

Cox Media also established a memorial scholarship fund and an internship in Moore's honor. See more information on the scholarship via Channel 2 here.

Other Hall of Fame honorees were journalists Lorenzo "Lo" Jelks (first Black T.V. news reporter), Mary Louise Kelly (of NPR and formerly CNN), Russ Spencer (of Fox 5 Atlanta), Dick Williams (multimedia journalist) and Rebecca Chase Williams (Emmy award-winning reporter and formerly of ABC News). Both Dick Williams and Rebecca Williams were honored posthumously.