- Lloyd Dobyns
Lloyd Allen Dobyns, Jr. born birth date and age|1936|3|12 is a former
NBC news reporter and correspondent.Born in
Newport News ,Virginia , he graduated fromWashington and Lee University in 1957. He started his broadcasting career in his hometown, eventually serving as an anchor atWAVY television in Portsmouth/Norfolk/Newport News in the 1960s.He was with NBC from 1969 to 1986. In 1980 he was a reporter on the successful TV documentary,
If Japan can... Why can't we? about the reasons Japan was a manufacturing powerhouse as US industry struggled to keep up. He hosted "Weekend" from 1974 to 1979 and "NBC News Overnight " withLinda Ellerbee (1982-83) before being replaced by Bill Schechner. In 1983 he was the anchor of NBC's short-lived, hour-long "Monitor".Next, he got involved in the
Total Quality Management movement, partnering withW. Edwards Deming . Later he worked at the Norfolk "Virginian-Pilot " newspaper and taught journalism atJacksonville State University in Jacksonville,Alabama where he became the Ayers Chair in the Department of Communication’s broadcast division. [ [http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/content/1462.cfm Lloyd Dobyns imparts lessons of a lifetime] Warren Watson, American Press Institute, December 27, 2000]In 2007, Dobyns is producing
podcast s forColonial Williamsburg , interviewing various staff members about their particular specialty at the museum. [http://www.history.org/media/podcasts.cfm Colonial Williamsburg podcasts with Lloyd Dobyns] ]Awards
Dobyns has won 28 national awards including a George Foster Peabody medal. In presenting a 1975 award to "Weekend", the Peabody committee noted that, "Felicity of style and polished journalistic professionalism are the distinctive wellsprings at the source of 'Weekend', produced and written for NBC by Reuven Frank and Lloyd Dobyns. A once-a-month magazine of television, inquiring into the off-trail, 'Weekend' is hereby honored not only for its content, but also as an instructive example of how the language can be employed with grace and precision."
Dobyns' work has also earned a
DuPont-Columbia Award , a 1982Humanitas Prize and two Christophers.He became a member of the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 2003. [ [http://www.jsu.edu/news/jan_june2003/03312003d.html Dobyns To Be Inducted into Virginia Communications Hall of Fame] Jacksonville State University, March 31, 2003] [ [http://www.has.vcu.edu/mac/our_story/hall_of_fame/dobyns_l.html Lloyd Dobyns Bio at the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame (2003)] ]
Books
Lloyd Dobyns co-authored two books with Clare Crawford-Mason:
*"Quality or Else: The Revolution in World Business" ISBN 039563749X
*"Thinking About Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy" ISBN 0788169890Notes
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