Bob Ray Sanders
Since 2004
Journalist-in-Residence

B.A.-North Texas State

Moudy South 277
817.257.6541
b.sanders@tcu.edu

Bob Ray Sanders' journalism career has spanned more than three decades and three media: newspaper, television and radio. He currently is vice president and associate editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the paper where he began his journalism career. He also is a columnist for the paper.

He worked many years in public broadcasting at KERA-TV, Channel 13, the Dallas/Fort Worth PBS affiliate, where he served as reporter, producer, station manager and vice president. A 1969 graduate of North Texas State University, he is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators. He currently serves on the board of the Mental Health Association of Tarrant County, advisory board of the AIDS Outreach Center of Tarrant County and the board of directors of Goodwill Industries, Inc.

Sanders has received some of journalism’s most prestigious awards, among them: five awards from the Houston, New York and Chicago Film Festivals, five Dallas Press Club KATIE awards, three Corporation for Public Broadcasting awards, a regional Emmy Award, a National Association of Black Journalists award for Best TV Sports Feature, and a National Headliner Award for "Outstanding Investigative Reporting."

Other honors include: the Journalism Ethics Award from the Schieffer School; Distinguished Alumni Award, Fort Worth Independent School District; induction into the "Hall of Honor," University of North Texas Journalism Department; the Thomas Jefferson Liberty Award from the Dallas Civil Liberties Union.

07/11/06