Sam Whiting April 22, 2021Updated: April 23, 2021, 12:55 am
Jerri Lange at a book signing for “Jerri: A Black Woman’s Life in the Media,” published in 2005 Photo: Carmen Stone
Pioneering Black television talk show host and producer Jerri Lange got her first job in journalism in 1964 after joining a street protest calling attention to the lack of reporters of color.
The protest, outside The Chronicle, resulted in Lange being hired as secretary to the newspaper’s executive editor, Scott Newhall, she wrote in her memoir. From that job, she went on to work at City Hall, then shifted to television when UHF channels started expanding the dial.