{"id":40039,"date":"2021-08-25T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/lloyd-dobyns-jr-award-winning-nbc-newsman-dead-at-85\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:08:28","slug":"lloyd-dobyns-jr-award-winning-nbc-newsman-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/lloyd-dobyns-jr-award-winning-nbc-newsman-dead-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyd Dobyns Jr., award-winning NBC newsman, dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>MEBANE, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Lloyd Dobyns Jr., an award-winning NBC News correspondent who reported from places around the world and who anchored an innovative US television newscast in the early 1980s, has died, his family said. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Dobyns said in a statement that his father died Sunday in Mebane, North Carolina, northwest of Raleigh. He said his father suffered complications from a series of strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Dobyns worked for NBC News in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and was known in America for working with Linda Ellerbee on the late-night news series \u201cNBC News Overnight\u201d in 1982 and 1983, according to a statement released by Ken Dobyns and online with a Raleigh funeral home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a friend, teacher, trouble-maker, and a world-class journalist,\u201d Ellerbee said in the statement. \u201cI shall miss him more than I can say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dobyns was born in Newport News, Virginia, on March 12, 1936. After serving in the U.S. Army, he began his broadcasting career as a reporter for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1957. Three years later, he became a news anchor at WAVY-TV, the NBC affiliate in Virginia\u2019s Tidewater area, and advanced to news director, the family statement said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><figcaption>Dobyns Jr. worked for NBC News in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and was known in the U.S. for working with Linda Ellerbee on the late-night news series \u201cNBC News Overnight\u201d in 1982 and 1983.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1969, Dobyns left Virginia for New York, where he first became managing editor of WNEW-TV, then as part of the NBC News team. He worked as a foreign correspondent before returning to New York to anchor the TV news magazine Weekend, winning a prestigious Peabody Award in 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Dobyns set the style for Weekend, a writing and reporting style that continued after he was joined by the equally droll and witty Ellerbee \u2013 the first time the two were paired on air, the statement added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"If Japan Can, Why Can&#039;t We?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vcG_Pmt_Ny4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After leaving NBC News Overnight, Dobyns anchored the short-lived TV magazine \u201cMonitor.\u201d In a documentary titled \u201cIf Japan Can, Why Can\u2019t We?\u201d he reported on the Japanese boom at a time when American manufacturing was faltering. The documentary\u2019s success led him to co-write several books about Japan\u2019s economic success.<\/p>\n<p>Dobyns won more than two-dozen awards for reporting, writing, and anchoring while with NBC News. He retired in 1986.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEBANE, N.C. 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