JACQUIE GALES WEBB
BIOGRAPHY
Jacquie Gales Webb is Radio Project Manager at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She manages CPB contracts with producers, consultants and radio stations and oversees the development and implementation of projects that enhance the growth and diversity of the public radio system. She is also a mother of two and an award-winning producer and performer. She has hosted the number one Sunday afternoon Gospel music program on commercial station 96.3 WHUR in Washington, DC since 1990. She is also a Content Consultant for Gospel Music projects at Time Life.
Webb started her on-air career in commercial radio during her junior year at Boston’s Emerson College at W*I*L*D-AM and WBCN-FM. Following her graduation, she came to the nation’s capitol to work as a radio on-air personality and eventually manager of music and programming at DC’s first 24-hour Gospel radio station, WYCB-AM. Six years later, she left the radio station to create and produce television shows at the CBS Affiliated W*USA-TV in Washington D.C.
Six local EMMY awards later, Webb moved on to produce video and radio for the Smithsonian Institution as senior producer for Smithsonian Productions. At the Smithsonian,
Jacquie Gales Webb produced the thirteen-part radio series Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was that was hosted by the four-time Grammy Award winner Lou Rawls. The series ranked among the world's leading radio productions as recipient of a Peabody Award from the University of Georgia, a Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton from Columbia University, two Gold World Medals at the New York Festival's International Radio Awards competition of 1996 for Best series and Best Narration, a Gracie Award from American Women in Radio and Television, a 1996 Gabriel award given by the Catholic National Association of Broadcasters, a Gold CINDY Award from the International Association of Audio Visual Communicators and a 1997 National Education Association Award for the Advancement of Learning Through Broadcasting. "Black Radio" aired over 200 public radio stations, including stations in all the top ten markets.
Webb also produced the award-winning public radio series Remembering Slavery, which featured performances by Tonea Stewart, Debbie Allen, Clifton Davis, Louis Gossett, Jr., Esther Rolle, and James Earl Jones. The series was distributed by Public Radio International and aired by over 200 radio stations. The series was the topic of the January 12, 1999 edition of the ABC News program “Nightline.” She also produced the 13-hour radio documentary for the Smithsonian and Public Radio International on Jazz Singers, hosted by Grammy award winning vocalist, Al Jarreau.
Webb was the first recipient of a one-year fellowship from Public Radio International. She was a freelance arts reporter for WAMU in Washington, WNYC New York’s “Studio 360” and National Public Radio. She wrote the Gracie Award-winning national radio documentary on America's veterans, "Coming Home" for the Library of Congress. She was a producer and writer for the NPR series "Honky Tonks, Hymns and Blues" which aired on the nation’s #1 morning news radio program, "Morning Edition." She has produced video and audio components for Smithsonian exhibitions, educational videos for the U.S. Department of State and she served as Chief Editor and Consulting Producer for the public radio series, "Then I'll be Free to Travel Home —the Legacy of the New York African Burial Ground.”
She was also the host and producer of the award-winning television broadcast “Melodies from Heaven,” which explored African American Gospel radio in Washington, DC and aired on the local public television station WHUT. Last year, she hosted “A Capitol Christmas,” a celebration performance by some of DC’s finest voices, that aired on Washington’s WETA and WHUT TV.
Webb will celebrate her 35th year in broadcasting in December 2007. Her husband was the late Clif Webb, a former Washington, D.C. news anchor. Their daughters are Diana Rose Webb born in 1991, and Joanna Joy Webb born in 1993.
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