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 voters might have more flexibility when it comes to where they cast ballots in future elections. The Kansas Legislature approved an update to a...
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The city of Hutchinson is set to become a test site for new technology that’s designed to improve public safety and city operations. AT&T selected...
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Veterans who struggle with substance abuse disorders will have a new treatment option in south-central Kansas. The Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center is...
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A task force that studied the increasing youth suicide rate in Kansas released its final report and recommendations Tuesday to improve the state’s...
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The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) is asking the public for feedback on the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, in Kansas...
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A task force created by the Kansas Legislature recommends adding inpatient psychiatric beds immediately to help solve the ongoing crisis in the state’s...
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Kansas education officials are launching a yearlong study to improve early childhood programs and services. The goal is to get a better understanding of...
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A new Emerson College poll finds the Kansas governor’s race remains tight, and Democrats might get a win in a Kansas congressional race. Emerson...
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A Hutchinson company helped set the scene in the new movie “First Man.” The film tells the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong and NASA’s mission to land...
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A new poll by Emerson College in Massachusetts finds the Kansas governor’s race is a statistical tie with five weeks to go until the general election....