Deborah Potter

Deborah Potter is a journalist and educator who spent 16 years as a network correspondent for CBS and CNN. Since 1998, Potter has been executive director of NewsLab, a non-profit journalism training and research center in Washington, DC. From 2003 to 2004, Potter also served as executive director of RTNDF, the research and training arm of the Radio & Television News Directors Association. An experienced journalism trainer, she conducts workshops across the country and around the world. For several years, she has been a featured speaker at the annual conventions of the Radio & Television News Directors Association and the National Press Photographers Association. She has taught journalism at The American University, and as a faculty associate at the Poynter Institute where she led writing, reporting, management and ethics seminars for professionals. Potter is a featured columnist for the American Journalism Review, writing about broadcast news. Her work has been published by RTNDA Communicator and News Photographer. She is the co-author of the Poynter Election Handbook: New Ways to Cover Campaigns (Third Edition, 1999). At CNN, Potter reported on national politics and environmental issues. She joined CNN in 1991 after 13 years at CBS News, where she served as White House, State Department and Congressional Correspondent. She also was a frequent contributor to the prime time CBS News magazine 48 Hours, and hosted the interview program, Nightwatch. Before joining CBS News, Potter worked as a news anchor for KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia; as a reporter for the Voice of America in Washington; and as a news producer for the ABC TV affiliate in Washington. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree from The American University.

		(301) 652-4881
		potter@newslab.org

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