"KTVU, KRON4, and NBC Bay Area are all livestreaming today's memorial service for the West Coast's first Black female TV reporter, Belva Davis, after the trailblazing 92-year-old's death in late September. If you're a fan of Belva Davis, the first Black woman TV reporter on the West Coast who died on September 24, you will want to drop everything you're doing right now. Belva Davis's epic memorial is taking place Monday, having just started at 11 am at Grace Cathedral."
"Davis started as a freelancer for magazine in 1957, getting $5 an article and receiving no byline on her work. By the 1960s, she was writing and editing for Bay Area Black newspapers and the . She bounced around as a reporter for several AM radio stations, until KTVU hired her as a TV reporter in 1963. Her first assignment was to cover a beauty pageant. But that made Davis the first Black female TV reporter on the West Coast."
Belva Davis was the West Coast's first Black female television reporter and died on September 24 at age 92. Memorial services began at 11 a.m. at Grace Cathedral and are livestreamed by KTVU, KRON4, and NBC Bay Area. Davis began freelancing in 1957 for a magazine for $5 per article without bylines, wrote and edited for Bay Area Black newspapers in the 1960s, and worked for several AM radio stations. KTVU hired her as a TV reporter in 1963; her early assignments included a beauty pageant and the 1964 Republican National Convention where she faced hostility. She later anchored at KPIX and KRON4, joined KQED in 1977, won eight Emmys, and entered the NABJ Hall of Fame in 2008 before retiring in 2012.
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