Lloyd Dobyns worked for NBC from 1969 to 1986, hosting Weekend, NBC News Overnight, and Monitor.
16 Facts About Lloyd Dobyns
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Lloyd Dobyns attended Fork Union Military Academy, graduating in the Class of 1953, and served as a lieutenant in the US Army for two years.
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Lloyd Dobyns then studied journalism at Washington and Lee University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in 1957.
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Lloyd Dobyns hosted Weekend from 1974 to 1979 and NBC News Overnight with Linda Ellerbee before being replaced by Bill Schechner.
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Lloyd Dobyns was the anchor of NBC's short-lived, hour-long Monitor in 1983.
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Lloyd Dobyns later worked at the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper and taught journalism at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, where served as the Ayers Chair in the Department of Communication from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.
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Lloyd Dobyns began hosting podcasts for Colonial Williamsburg in 2005, interviewing various staff members about their particular specialty at the restored colonial capital of Virginia.
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Lloyd Dobyns initially did not know what a podcast was, but warmed to the idea when he found out they were similar to the interviews he conducted in the past.
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Lloyd Dobyns died on August 22,2021, in Mebane, North Carolina.
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Lloyd Dobyns was preceded in death by his son, Brian, and his brother, Norman Lloyd Dobyns.
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Lloyd Dobyns was survived by his wife, Patti, three children: Denise, Alison and Kenneth, and eight grandchildren.
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Lloyd Dobyns was 85, and suffered from complications caused by multiple strokes prior to his death.
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Lloyd Dobyns won 28 national awards including a George Foster Peabody medal.
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Lloyd Dobyns' work earned a DuPont-Columbia Award, a 1982 Humanitas Prize and two Christophers.
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Lloyd Dobyns was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Lloyd Dobyns was granted an honorary doctorate of humane letters by the University of North Carolina.