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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Starting next year, Kansas counties are required to do post-election audits. The check will make sure the voting process — from equipment to office...
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A prescription drug monitoring program in Kansas will receive a federal grant worth more than $736,000 to expand. The Kansas Board of Pharmacy oversees...
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Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day , a single day set aside for a coordinated awareness campaign to get more people registered to vote.
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American Red Cross chapters in Kansas are sending volunteers and equipment to the East Coast ahead of Hurricane Florence. The massive, slow-moving...
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Kansas farmers are heading to Washington, D.C., next week to meet with members of Congress and the Department of Agriculture. The family farmers and...
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A Kansas trade expert says a new U.S. trade agreement with Mexico could help grow Kansas companies and the economy of south-central Kansas. Karyn Page,...
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Every year, 232 women in Kansas endure the heartache of losing a baby to stillbirth or infant death. To help reduce that rate, the Kansas Department of...
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Law enforcement agencies throughout Kansas are increasing their patrols for impaired drivers the next few weeks. The stepped up enforcement is part of a...
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Kansas high school juniors will have a chance to take the ACT college admission test for free this school year. Kansas education officials plan to offer...
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Kansas officials will soon have an up-to-date map of broadband service availability across the state as a way to help close the coverage gap.