Beatrice Thompson

Beatrice Thompson has worked in broadcast television and radio, and in public relations. Thompson works for two CBS radio stations, WBAV 101.9 FM and WPEG Power 98FM, as a talk show host and as a news and public affairs director.

As Charlotte, North Carolina's first African-American woman newscaster, with a career going back to 1977, as well documented in independent North Carolina media. Her 1999 dispute with a former employer was described in a documentary film about the banality of local TV news, and mentioned in the New York Times and Salon.com.