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After more than 30 years in Detroit broadcast journalism, award-winning reporter
Vickie Thomas says she’s ready to start a new chapter. She retired from radio station WWJ April 29, and she’ll be joining Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s administration as director of communications for the city.
Stateside caught up with the veteran journalist on the eve of her retirement from WWJ to discuss her years of experience bringing Detroit stories to the air.
From medicine to media
Thomas says journalism wasn’t her first calling. When she started college at Michigan State University, she planned to become a nurse like her mother.
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Maudlyne Ihejirika, the prominent Sun-Times columnist and one of the most powerful women in Chicago journalism, has announced she s stepping down as president of two influential professional organizations.