
Deborah Shaar
Deborah joined the news team at KMUW in September 2014 as a news reporter. She spent more than a dozen years working in news at both public and commercial radio and television stations in Ohio, West Virginia and Detroit, Michigan. Before relocating to Wichita in 2013, Deborah taught news and broadcasting classes at Tarrant County College in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area.
She began her on-air career as a reporter and anchor at various small market stations in southeast Ohio and West Virginia. She fine-tuned her writing and producing skills while working on a highly rated three-hour morning news show at the Fox TV affiliate in Detroit, Michigan. From there, she put her on-air, writing and producing skills to good use: training and developing broadcast news students at Ohio University. As managing editor of the WOUB radio and television newsroom, Deborah served in a crucial role as supervisor of the student-staffed nightly television newscast. Many of her student anchors, reporters and producers earned prestigious national, state and regional awards—and still work in the news business today. She later went back on-air as a fill-in anchor for a statewide news network in Ohio.
Deborah earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in journalism from Ohio University. Her master’s thesis is a historical narrative about the transformation of journalism training at the University of Leipzig, Germany as a result of Germany’s reunificiation.
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Kansas says it will stop distributing the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as federal health officials investigate reports of rare complications...
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Former Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O’Donnell was fined $25,000 by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission for violating campaign finance laws...
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Sedgwick County plans to offer a rapid response saliva test to detect COVID-19 beginning next week. The test will be available at the county’s drive...
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People across south-central Kansas had a chance to see Wichita’s hometown military aircraft in flight Wednesday morning. Three tankers from McConnell...
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Now that Kansas is slowly reopening, health officials are preparing for what could be a busy few months of COVID-19 investigations.
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The Sedgwick County Health Department is investigating five specific locations in the county linked to multiple coronavirus infections. Health officials...
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The number of Kansans affected by coronavirus-related work disruptions keeps growing. Restaurants, businesses and city facilities across the state are...
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Testing for the coronavirus in Kansas has so far been done at the state level, but health leaders say that could change in a few weeks.
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McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita says it has increased its safety procedures for personnel who work in an aircraft hangar where a cancer-causing...