Effingham, IL -(Effingham Radio)- Paul Davis, a onetime Downstate Illinois news anchor who became an influential TV news executive and a widely admired statesman for his profession, led WGN-Channel 9 into the modern era of broadcast journalism during 13 years as news director of “Chicago’s Very Own.”
In a career that spanned six decades, he served as president of two of the nation’s largest professional organizations — the Radio Television Digital News Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Davis died of cancer Sunday at Heritage Health Therapy and Senior Care in Gibson City, Illinois, according to his daughter, Marinell Croson. He was 82.
Davis was an Effingham native, born in 1938. He began his media career working with his mother on WCRA right here in Effingham before going to college and then to Channel 3 in Champaign.
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