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Journalist and Producer Anita Woodley is from Oakland, California. Formerly she produced stories and was an on-air contributor to the nationally-syndicated public APM radio program, "The Story with Dick Gordon" co-produced by WUNC-FM. Anita's previously worked for other broadcast news organizations such as CNN, KRON-TV, WAGA-TV, KMTP-TV and KCBS-AM.

Anita's Accolades

• 2011/2012– Network Radio -Sports, “After Basketball” (National Association of Black Journalists)
• 2011/2012– Network Radio -Interview/Discussion, “Prison to Life” NABJ
• 2011/2012–Network Radio -Feature, Finalist “The Evolution of Malcolm Shabazz” NABJ
• 2011/2012 Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant Recipient, Durham Arts Council
• 2010/2011 – Network Radio -Sports, “Off the Corner” NABJ
• 2010/2011 – Network Radio -Interview/Discussion, “When Living in a Hotel is No Vacation” NABJ
• 2009/10 – Network Radio -Interview/Discussion, “Lessons from a Dropout” NABJ
• 2008 – Harry Chapin Media Award- Radio: Hunger and Poverty Coverage, “A New Life in a Foreclosed Home”
• 2008/2009 – Network Radio -Interview/Discussion, “Playground to Prison” NABJ
• 2008/2009 – Network Radio -Sports, “Courage on the Court” NABJ
• 2006 – Harry Chapin Media Award- Radio, Finalist “Gift of a Loan”
• 2001 – EMMY® Award, “CNN Exceptional Coverage on 9/11” NATAS
• 2000 – Francia Young Memorial Award “Most Promising Minority Journalist, Community
Leader and Scholar for exceptional work as a Journalist” SFSU/BECA Dept.
• 2000 – Recognition as a pioneer with contributions for others to follow, EOP/SFSU
• 2000 – Academic Excellence/All-University Undergraduate Honors/Magna Cum Laude, SFSU
• 1999 – Golden Key National Honor Society, Lifetime Member

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Thursday, September 04 2008 - Bedside Comfort

Thursday, September 04 2008 - Bedside Comfort

Sandra Del JimSandra Clarke, Del Townley, and Jim Clark

Every day, patients die alone in hospitals without family or medical staff to comfort them. Nurse Sandra Clarke decided to do something about this. She once had a dying patient who asked her to stay with him but she couldn't. When she returned to the room, he was dead.

Sandra talks to Dick Gordon about how she turned her guilt into a hospital vigil program - and how she convinced her co-workers to volunteer between shifts so patients wouldn't die alone.

Del Townley and Jim Clark also join the conversation. They are hospital maintenance workers who will sit at the bedsides of dying patients. They tell Dick why they joined the program and what keeps them volunteering.

Music in this story: "Bedside of a Neighbor," Dixie Hummingbirds, The Best of the Dixie Hummingbirds

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