NABJ President Dorothy Tucker Delivers Speech, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at Chicago Headline Club

NABJ President Dorothy Tucker accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award from Chicago Headline Club Friday. Watch below as she delivers a pep talk to her younger self on the importance of not quitting during her speech.

Tucker is a native of Chicago and has been a reporter for CBS-2 Chicago since 1984. She is a reporter on the station’s 2 Investigative team. In 2021, she won two regional Edward R. Murrow awards and was part of the news team that won a national Murrow for overall excellence.

Tucker has won several local Emmys, including Outstanding Achievement for News Gathering for a 2021 investigation that exposed how the state moratorium on evictions was leaving some landlords homeless. Tucker has been a reporter since 1979 and has worked for various television stations, including KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh and KWGN-TV in Denver. She graduated with honors from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Communications and is a former board member of the Northwestern Alumni Association.