Tonya Mosley is an
Emmy
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with the ...
and
Murrow award-winning radio and television journalist and
podcaster. Prior to 2022, Mosley co-hosted
NPR and
WBUR's midday talk show ''
Here & Now'' along with
Robin Young and
Scott Tong.
In 2015, she was awarded the
John S. Knight journalism fellowship at Stanford.
[ She hosts the podcast ''Truth Be Told,'' an advice show about race from KQED.
Mosley won an Emmy Award in 2016 for her televised piece "Beyond Ferguson," and a national Edward R. Murrow award for her public radio series "Black in Seattle." In 2010 Tonya Mosley created NewNaturalista.com. The popular site focused on healthy living, social justice, mental well-being, natural hair and building wealth for women of color.
Before public radio and podcasting Mosley worked as a reporter and weekend anchor at NBC33 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, FOX 41 in Louisville, Kentucky, KING 5 in Seattle and behind the scenes as a producer in several markets including ]Columbia, Missouri
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, Lansing, Michigan
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, Flint, Michigan
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and Detroit, Michigan. Mosley reported for Al Jazeera America and KUOW. She has also been the Silicon Valley chief of San Francisco's public radio station KQED KQED may refer to:
* KQED (TV), a PBS member station in San Francisco
* KQED-FM
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.[
Mosley is originally from Detroit.]
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