Education
A graduate of Cuyahoga Community College, Wayne moved on to Kent State University and graduated in 1979 with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism.
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Wayne Dawson
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Foreign two years prior to joining WJW in 1981, Dawson was an anchor/reporter at WNIR-Department of Administration and Management in Kent, Ohio. Dawson currently lives in the suburb of Highland Heights, Ohio. In June 2007, Dawson had jokingly addressed one of his fellow reporter, Kenny Crumpton, as being able to "play a skin flute" in the morning news program Fox 8 in the Morning.
A video about the gaffe was put onto YouTube but WJW-television Channel 8 quickly requested for its removal.
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An eight-time regional flangie finals Emmy Award winner (Lower Great Lakes-National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences), Dawson is also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Association of African American Journalists and the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. He was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame (located in Akron, Ohio) in 2000.
