Veteran KDKA-TV Reporter Leaving Station

PITTSBURGH, PA — Veteran KDKA-TV reporter and anchor Brenda Waters is leaving the station. Waters, who jointed KDKA in 1987, is retiring at the end of the week.

According to her page on the station website, Waters has been honored as a member of “Who’s Who Among Black Americans” and has won two Associated Press awards. Ebenezer Baptist Church in the Hill District has twice recognized her as one of 100 outstanding women in the community.

Waters also has received the Cecile B. Springer Womenpower Award recognizing women as superior role models in society.

Waters was been named a woman of distinction by the Girl Scouts of Southwestern Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Courier named her among its 50 Women of Excellence in 2008.

Waters received a bachelor’s degree at the University of Maryland and a master’s degree at American University. She was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina and raised in Washington,
D.C.