The first Black woman to lead a public television station, former WOUB General Manager Carolyn Bailey Lewis, has died

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ATHENS, Ohio — Carolyn Bailey Lewis had the word “first” associated with her name many times. She was the first Black woman to graduate from the WVU’s journalism school, the first Black woman to lead a public television station in the continental U.S. and the first woman to lead WOUB Public Media, among many other accomplishments in her life.

Lewis died Oct. 21 at the age of 78, according to a social media post from her daughter.

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