{"id":16162,"date":"2013-05-07T12:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?page_id=16162"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:26:54","slug":"deborah-potter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/about-the-series\/biographies\/deborah-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contributing Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2013\/05\/bio-deborah-potter-page.jpg\" alt=\"bio-deborah-potter-page\" width=\"271\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19762\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deborah Potter is a veteran reporter, anchor, and journalism trainer who spent 16 years as a correspondent for CBS News and CNN.\u00a0She is\u00a0executive director of NewsLab, a nonprofit journalism resource center in Washington, D.C., which she founded in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>At CBS News,\u00a0Potter served as White House, State Department, and Congressional correspondent. She was a frequent contributor to the prime time CBS News program\u00a048 HOURS and hosted the\u00a0interview\u00a0program,\u00a0NIGHTWATCH.  She joined CNN in 1991, where she anchored news programs and covered national politics and environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid \u201990s, Potter hosted the PBS series\u00a0IN THE PRIME, looking at issues facing Americans at mid-life. She has been a contributing correspondent to RELIGION &amp; ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Potter is a featured columnist for American Journalism Review, writing about broadcast issues. She is also the co-author of Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World, published by CQ Press (2008), two handbooks for news managers published by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, and an international guide to independent journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Potter has taught journalism as a faculty member at the Poynter Institute and American University, and as a visiting professional at dozens of other universities. She leads training sessions for working journalists at national and regional conferences and in newsrooms in the U.S. and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining CBS News in 1978, 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 WMAL-TV in Washington. 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