Summer 2010
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Jocelyn Dorsey
WSB-TV Director of Editorials
and Public Affairs, Atlanta, Georgia
Jocelyn has been with WSB-TV for 35 years. She has been Director of Editorials & Public Affairs at
Channel 2 since 1983. From 1973- 83, Jocelyn was an anchor/reporter/producer and assignment editor for WSB-TV’s Channel 2 Action News. In fact, she was the first African-American anchor of a Channel 2 newscast as well as the first African American news anchor in the Atlanta market.
Her current responsibilities at WSB-TV include research, writing, and production of editorials
broadcast by WSB-TV Vice President & General Manager Bill Hoffman. Jocelyn is also Executive
Producer and Host of People 2 People, a weekly half-hour public affairs program which is broadcast
at 6:30 a.m. Sunday mornings on Channel 2.
She supervises the selection, creation, and marketing efforts for all special events and community outreach programs for the Family 2 Family Project; WSB-TV public service projects, Channel 2 Speaker’s Bureau, and Tours. In addition, Jocelyn is a producer, writer, editor, and narrator for various non-profit organization videos.
Jocelyn has won numerous awards for her work with WSB-TV, including seven Southeast Regional EMMYS for Editorial Excellence from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
Among her personal honors, Jocelyn was the first African-American inducted into the NATAS Silver Circle, for more than 25 years in the field of journalism. She was also the first woman and first
African-American to receive the Georgia Association of Broadcasters (GAB) Broadcaster’s Citizen of the Year Award, a lifetime-achievement award. Jocelyn has been inducted into the National
Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)-Region IV-Hall of Fame, and has been named National Media Woman of the Year by the National Association of Media Women. Other civic honors include the first Georgia Chapter- United Cerebral Palsy Woman of the Year, and the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers, The Winnie Mandela Humanitarian Award of Honor. She had received proclamations from the State of Georgia, Fulton County Board of Commissioners, and Dekalb County Board of Commissioners for her 30 years of service to the community. Jocelyn was named Pioneer Black Journalist, the highest award bestowed by the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists, and was recognized by Atlanta Magazine as a “Woman making a Mark”. Her active Board affiliations include; Sisters By Choice, Inc., Piedmont Park Conservancy, The Real Deal Program, and the
Police Memorial Ride.
Channel 2 since 1983. From 1973- 83, Jocelyn was an anchor/reporter/producer and assignment editor for WSB-TV’s Channel 2 Action News. In fact, she was the first African-American anchor of a Channel 2 newscast as well as the first African American news anchor in the Atlanta market.
Her current responsibilities at WSB-TV include research, writing, and production of editorials
broadcast by WSB-TV Vice President & General Manager Bill Hoffman. Jocelyn is also Executive
Producer and Host of People 2 People, a weekly half-hour public affairs program which is broadcast
at 6:30 a.m. Sunday mornings on Channel 2.
She supervises the selection, creation, and marketing efforts for all special events and community outreach programs for the Family 2 Family Project; WSB-TV public service projects, Channel 2 Speaker’s Bureau, and Tours. In addition, Jocelyn is a producer, writer, editor, and narrator for various non-profit organization videos.
Jocelyn has won numerous awards for her work with WSB-TV, including seven Southeast Regional EMMYS for Editorial Excellence from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
Among her personal honors, Jocelyn was the first African-American inducted into the NATAS Silver Circle, for more than 25 years in the field of journalism. She was also the first woman and first
African-American to receive the Georgia Association of Broadcasters (GAB) Broadcaster’s Citizen of the Year Award, a lifetime-achievement award. Jocelyn has been inducted into the National
Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)-Region IV-Hall of Fame, and has been named National Media Woman of the Year by the National Association of Media Women. Other civic honors include the first Georgia Chapter- United Cerebral Palsy Woman of the Year, and the YWCA Academy of Women Achievers, The Winnie Mandela Humanitarian Award of Honor. She had received proclamations from the State of Georgia, Fulton County Board of Commissioners, and Dekalb County Board of Commissioners for her 30 years of service to the community. Jocelyn was named Pioneer Black Journalist, the highest award bestowed by the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists, and was recognized by Atlanta Magazine as a “Woman making a Mark”. Her active Board affiliations include; Sisters By Choice, Inc., Piedmont Park Conservancy, The Real Deal Program, and the
Police Memorial Ride.
