Deborah Shaar
News ReporterDeborah joined the news team at KMUW in September 2014 as a news reporter. She spent more than a dozen years working in news at both public and commercial radio and television stations in Ohio, West Virginia and Detroit, Michigan. Before relocating to Wichita in 2013, Deborah taught news and broadcasting classes at Tarrant County College in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area.
She began her on-air career as a reporter and anchor at various small market stations in southeast Ohio and West Virginia. She fine-tuned her writing and producing skills while working on a highly rated three-hour morning news show at the Fox TV affiliate in Detroit, Michigan. From there, she put her on-air, writing and producing skills to good use: training and developing broadcast news students at Ohio University. As managing editor of the WOUB radio and television newsroom, Deborah served in a crucial role as supervisor of the student-staffed nightly television newscast. Many of her student anchors, reporters and producers earned prestigious national, state and regional awards—and still work in the news business today. She later went back on-air as a fill-in anchor for a statewide news network in Ohio.
Deborah earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in journalism from Ohio University. Her master’s thesis is a historical narrative about the transformation of journalism training at the University of Leipzig, Germany as a result of Germany’s reunificiation.
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Health care workers in Wichita were among the first in the state to get the new COVID-19 vaccination.Five employees of the Ascension Via Christi health…
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Sedgwick County Republicans selected their former leader to serve the remainder of the term for the 2nd District seat on the county commission.Former GOP…
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A new COVID-19 health order for Sedgwick County limits public gatherings to 25 people and continues current restrictions for businesses.The mandates are…
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Voters elected Democrat Sarah Lopez to a four-year term on the Sedgwick County Commission.Official election results certified Monday confirm Lopez won the…
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In response to the rising number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the area, Sedgwick County is tightening restrictions on bars, restaurants and…
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Preliminary voter turnout numbers in Sedgwick County show more votes were cast in Tuesday's general election than in the 2016 presidential election.The…
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Voters re-elected two commissioners in Sedgwick County, but it’s not clear if one of them will actually serve a second term.In the 2nd District race,…
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This will likely be the last term for Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O’Donnell.He announced on social media Saturday that he will not accept a…
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Sedgwick County commissioners formally asked their colleague Michael O’Donnell to resign immediately due to his actions involving a negative campaign…
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The attorney for Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O’Donnell says a civil lawsuit filed against O’Donnell and two other elected officials is frivolous…