Carole Simpson | Salary Undisclosed

Carole Simpson, an alumna of the University of Michigan, started her career on radio in Chicago, Illinois. She then moved to television at WMAQ and onto NBC News in the mid-‘70s, becoming the first African-American woman to host a major network newscast. She also joined ABC News in 1982 and was the anchor for World News Tonight’s weekend edition from 1988 until October 2003.

Simpson was also credited as the first woman of color to preside over a presidential debate held between Bill Clinton, Ross Perot, and George H. W. Bush back in 1992. That same year, she received the Journalist of the Year Award. In 2006, at the age of 65, she retired from ABC News to start her teaching career at Emerson College in Boston, where she taught journalism until 2019. Today, Simpson serves on the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Advisory Council. She also published an autobiography title Newslady.