Cheryl Devall

Senior News Editor

Awards

  • 2006: duPont-Columbia Award, Gracie Award, Harry Chapin Media Award, Casey Medal, Edward R. Murrow Award: "North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty," WUNC-FM
  • 1989: duPont-Columbia Award, National Assn. of Black Journalists Award, Ohio State Award: "AIDS in Black America: Breaking the Silence," National Public Radio
  • 1991: Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Award: "The Great Divide: Affirmative Action in America," National Public Radio

Cheryl Devall's long experience in journalism includes three years as a senior editor at Marketplace. While there, she taught the first public radio production course offered at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication as a member of the adjunct faculty.

Devall is a former Los Angeles correspondent for the San Jose Mercury News. She has also reported for the Chicago Tribune, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Boston Globe.

For 11 years, Devall reported for National Public Radio, first from Chicago and later from Miami. During the 1995-96 academic year, Devall was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in sociology from Harvard University's Radcliffe College, and a Master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Recent Stories

NASA administrator will deliver commencement speech at Caltech Feb. 10, 2010
UC system institutes admissions wait lists Jan. 20, 2010
Irvine publisher buys, resumes Editor & Publisher magazine Jan. 15, 2010
Director of the Getty Museum steps down Jan. 7, 2010
A federal judge allows video recording of Prop 8 proceedings Jan. 6, 2010
For many people in the Southland, Christmas falls on January 6 Jan. 5, 2010
Shortfall closes Claremont Museum of Art Dec. 28, 2009
Killer of 6-year-old boy gets 25 years to life in prison Dec. 15, 2009
Muslim civil rights organization says harassment, discrimination persist Dec. 15, 2009
Federal appeals court overturns a death sentence for a murder in LA Dec. 9, 2009
LA County Supervisors arrange a bond offering to support the LA Opera Dec. 8, 2009
Ukrainian philanthropist launches a new award for young artists Dec. 7, 2009
LA County Supervisors ratify plan to run King Hospital with University of California Dec. 2, 2009
Half-million dollar reward in Grim Sleeper murder case extended Dec. 2, 2009
Black history archivist Avery Clayton dies Nov. 27, 2009