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Lloyd Allen Dobyns, Jr. born is a former NBC news reporter and correspondent. Born in Newport News, Virginia, he graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1957. He started his broadcasting career in his hometown, eventually serving as an anchor at WAVY television in Portsmouth/Norfolk/Newport News in the 1960s. He was with NBC from 1969 to 1986. In 1980 he was a reporter on the successful TV documentary, ''If Japan can... Why can't we?'' about the reasons Japan was a manufacturing powerhouse as US industry struggled to keep up. He hosted ''Weekend'' from 1974 to 1979 and ''NBC News Overnight'' with Linda Ellerbee (1982-83) before being replaced by Bill Schechner. In 1983, he was the anchor of NBC's short-lived, hour-long ''Monitor''. Next, he got involved in the Total Quality Management movement, partnering with W. Edwards Deming. Later he worked at the Norfolk ''Virginian-Pilot'' newspaper and taught journalism at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama where he became the Ayers Chair in the Department of Communication’s broadcast division.〔(Lloyd Dobyns imparts lessons of a lifetime ) Warren Watson, American Press Institute, December 27, 2000〕 In 2005, Dobyns began producing podcasts for Colonial Williamsburg, interviewing various staff members about their particular specialty at the restored colonial capital of Virginia.〔(Colonial Williamsburg podcasts with Lloyd Dobyns )〕〔(Colonial Williamsburg 2005 Annual Report )〕 ==Awards== Dobyns has won 28 national awards including a George Foster Peabody medal. In presenting a 1975 award to ''Weekend'', the Peabody committee noted that, "Felicity of style and polished journalistic professionalism are the distinctive wellsprings at the source of 'Weekend', produced and written for NBC by Reuven Frank and Lloyd Dobyns. A once-a-month magazine of television, inquiring into the off-trail, 'Weekend' is hereby honored not only for its content, but also as an instructive example of how the language can be employed with grace and precision." Dobyns' work has also earned a DuPont-Columbia Award, a 1982 Humanitas Prize and two Christophers. He became a member of the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 2003.〔(Dobyns To Be Inducted into Virginia Communications Hall of Fame ) Jacksonville State University, March 31, 2003〕〔(Lloyd Dobyns Bio at the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame (2003) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lloyd Dobyns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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