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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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...
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The Kansas Division of Vehicles added two new options to reduce wait times and long lines at driver’s license offices across the state. The agency...
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A historic steam locomotive is headed to Kansas as part of a tour to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Union Pacific transcontinental railroad system.
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Large-scale commercial wind farms won’t be built in Sedgwick County.
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A task force begins work next month on updating the Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Plan. A statewide plan to address anticipated growth in the number of...
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The Regional Forensic Science Center is getting new equipment to help identify opioid drugs that are circulating in south-central Kansas. Sedgwick...
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Kansas lawmakers restored mental health funding for Sedgwick County’s Community Crisis Center and two other mental health centers Wednesday.
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A portion of Kansas State University’s fire-gutted Hale Library is expected to reopen this fall. After months of demolition work, the restoration...
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A new Kansas law is scaling back the requirements for safety drills in public and private schools. The move comes a year after the Kansas Legislature...