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Emmy winner Pansy Hall to kick off R-TV Alumni Professional-in-Residence Series Sept. 15-16

Sep 13, 2010

Pansy Hall, a 1985 graduate of Arkansas State University and an Emmy award winning news producer, is the first of four distinguished alumni to return to campus as part of the ASU R-TV Alumni Professional-in-Residence Series. She will be on campus Sept. 16-15.
The series, started by the Department of Radio-Television in the spring of 2010, invites R-TV graduates who have excelled in their field to share their experiences with students and interact with faculty over a two-day period.
Hall is a news producer who currently works at the ABC/CW affiliate in Memphis, Tenn. She graduated from ASU with a bachelor of science in Radio-Television and a minor in Computer Information Systems. She is currently pursuing a master of science degree in Psychology from the University of Phoenix.
Hall won a regional Emmy in 2009 in Best Light Feature category for a story with FOX13 reporter Tom Dees and photojournalist Derric Curran. The story was a "NAT" package about a barbecue restaurant owner who sold his wares on the CB radio. Hall won the Emmy after she left WHBQ and went to work for WPTY/WLMT.
She began her television career at KAIT in Jonesboro in 1985, but soon left to pursue other interests. After spending 14 years working various jobs including a long stint as an insurance claims adjuster, she found herself back at KAIT as a community liaison and eventually ended up in the newsroom again. She has worked as a producer, assignment manager and web producer at several stations in the Mid-South and has spent the last eight years in the Memphis market, working at WREG, WHBQ and now at WPTY/WLMT.
A native of Northeast Arkansas, she grew up in Jackson County and is a 1981 graduate of Newport High School. After spending several years in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, she returned to Arkansas in the mid-1990's and never left. She resides with her husband, Keith, and her daughter, Taylor, in Marion. Keith is pursuing a doctorate in history from the University of Memphis and Taylor is a senior at Marion High School. Her son, Terrence, is 21 years old and lives in Grand Prairie, Texas, where he works and attends college.
For additional information, contact Dr. Mary Jackson-Pitts, Interim Chair, Department of Radio/Television at (870) 972-3070 or through e-mail atmpitts@astate.edu.

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