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Deborah Simmons is Deputy Editorial Page Editor for The Washington Times and an award-winning editorial writer and columnist. She writes about national and international issues, as well as about education, culture, sports and family related topics. Since joining The Times in 1985, Deborah has served as Features Editor, Deputy Metro Editor and Copy Editor. Her first job after high school was at the now-defunct Washington Star, and she is a former Assistant News Editor at a Knight-Ridder daily, the Tallahassee Democrat, in Florida. She also has taught copy editing at the University of Maryland-College Park.
Deborah has won numerous awards as an editorialist and columinist, including best editorial award from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association, best editorial and best column from the Chesapeake Associated Press, and the Society of Professional Journalists Dateline Award for her series of editorials on D.C. public schools.
A regular panelist on City Cable 16's news show "Reporters Roundtable," she has appeared on BET's "Lead Story," "Real Time with Bill Maher" and Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect," "America's Black Forum," Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," "The Right Side with Armstrong Williams," C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," "This is America with Dennis Wholey," the syndicated program "To the Contrary," and she has been a guest radio commentator on NPR, WAMU, WMAL, WOL, as well as public-TV programming broadcast by Howard University.
A longtime member and former officer of the Washington Association of Black Journalists, Deborah is a member of the Greater Washington Urban League and the Soceity of Professional Journalists, and she is active in several education- and community-based efforts.
Deborah attended the University of the District of Columbia and Trinity College. She and her husband, who live in Washington, have four children and two grandchildren. |
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