Karen Holmes Ward Biography
Karen Holmes Ward is the Director of Public Affairs and Community Services as well as host and executive producer of CityLine. Also, she is WCVB’s award-winning weekly magazine program which addresses the accomplishments, concerns, and issues facing people of color living in Boston and its suburbs.
Karen Holmes Ward Age
There is no information about the year she was born. She is secretive when it comes to her personal life. The information will be soon updated.
Karen Holmes Ward Education
A graduate of Boston University’s School of Public Communications (now COM), Karen has received honorary doctorates from both Cambridge College and Merrimack College. She was inducted into the 2018 Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame,
Karen Holmes Ward Career
Karen Holmes Ward is the Director of Public Affairs and Community Services as well as host and executive producer of CityLine, WCVB-TV’s weekly magazine program which addresses the problems, concerns, and accomplishments of people of color living in Boston and its suburbs. Many notables including Oscar winners Louis Gossett Jr. and Denzel Washington and Oscar nominees Taraji Henson and Oprah Winfrey have been interviewed by Holmes Ward for CityLine. CityLine is the recipient of the Associated Press Massachusetts/Rhode Island ‘Best’ Public Affairs program for 2008.
From 1995-1997, Holmes Ward reported and produced forChronicle, WCVB’s nightly news magazine. Holmes Ward, who has been with Boston’s Channel 5 since 1981, has also served as Coordinating Producer of WCVB’s Black history specials, which have won several regional Emmy Awards and a CEBA (Communications Excellence to Black Achievers) Award. In 1989, she traveled to the Soviet Union to produce To Russia With Love, a program on the visit to that country of a Boston-based junior tennis team.
Ward has received many honors for her contributions to the media and the community. Including, The Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts President’s Award (1998); The Women of Courage and Conviction Award from the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.; Greater Boston Section (1998), Journalist of the Year Region I; National Association of Black Journalists (1997); Massachusetts League of Afro-American Women (1991); Massachusetts Legislative Black Caucus Award for Excellence in Radio Journalism (1979).
In 1988, she was one of 10 women chosen from across the country to travel to Israel for the Anti-Defamation League’s “Women’s Mission.” In 1987, Holmes Ward was named one of the Boston Jaycees’ “Ten Outstanding Young Leaders.” In that same year, she was named an “Outstanding Young Woman of America” and was selected for Who’s Who in Black America. In 1984, Holmes Ward received the YMCA Black Achievers Award.
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