Reynelda Muse was born on 1946 and is a former American television news anchor.
20 Facts About Reynelda Muse
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Reynelda Muse is the winner of many awards, including an Emmy Award, and has been inducted into numerous halls of fame.
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Reynelda Muse was born Reynelda Ware in Ohio, the daughter of Arthur Allan Ware, originally of Pittsburgh, and Evelyn Cook.
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Reynelda Muse attended Ohio State University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English in 1968.
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Fresh out of college and newly married to a University of Denver law student, Muse joined KOA-TV in 1968 as a general assignment reporter.
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Reynelda Muse's hiring represented a commitment to diversity by the station's new owner, General Electric, but her reception in the newsroom was frosty: the first reporter assigned to work with her told her, "I have a friend who has been trying to get into broadcasting for a long time, but they told him if he was a black woman he would've gotten hired".
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Reynelda Muse said, "After we went out, he threw all his notes at me and told me to write the story".
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Reynelda Muse felt the other newscasters were "protective" of her taking on "hard news" stories.
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In 1980 Reynelda Muse left Channel 4 to become one of the first 12 anchors on CNN in Atlanta, Georgia.
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In 1984 Reynelda Muse returned to Channel 4 to co-anchor the station's new Colorado Evening News program at 6:30 pm with Bill Stuart, a post she filled until November 1997.
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Reynelda Muse hosted the American Skyline series exploring "cultural events, music and art around the United States" for Denver's Pacific Mountain network, and narrated the 1981 Spoonful of Loving documentary series on childhood development for KRMA-TV.
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In October 1997 Reynelda Muse announced her decision to retire from television news; her last newscast was on November 26,1997.
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Reynelda Muse cited changes in programming at the station, which planned to replace the 6:30 pm news program with the game show Hollywood Squares, as influencing her decision.
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Reynelda Muse added that she had become "somewhat disenchanted" with television news:.
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Reynelda Muse produced a weekly spot for KCNC-TV called "City Beats" spotlighting the arts.
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Reynelda Muse was a guest lecturer at the University of Colorado School of Journalism and other schools.
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Reynelda Muse won an Emmy Award in 1988 for writing and reporting the documentary Ramses II on KCNC-TV.
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Reynelda Muse received Emmy nominations in 1990,1993, and 1996.
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Reynelda Muse won the First Amendment Freedom Prize from the Anti-Defamation League.
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Reynelda Muse was inducted into several halls of fame: the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame, the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame, the Silver Circle of the Heartland Chapter of NATAS, and the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado Hall of Fame.