KDKA-TV news anchor and reporter Brenda Waters will sign off at 6 p.m. Friday.
Waters is retiring after more than four decades as a journalist.
Chris Cotugno, the station’s vice president and general manager, said there will be a celebration. Waters will say her goodbyes.
“People miss things differently when someone leaves, but I’ll miss her smile and her banter,” he wrote in an email.
Waters joined the station in 1987. She won an Emmy for a segment called “On a Positive Note,” where she profiled local unsung heroes.
She sent out this tweet Friday.
GOOD MORNING PITTSBURGH...., pic.twitter.com/nWMD5caMiu
— BJ Waters (@BRENDASNEWS) May 29, 2020
Waters has been recognized in “Who’s Who Among Black Americans” and received two Associated Press awards.
Ebenezer Baptist Church in the Hill District has honored Waters twice as one of 100 outstanding women in the community.
She received the Cecile B. Springer Womenpower Award, which recognizes women as superior role models, and was named a woman of distinction by the Girl Scouts of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Waters serves on several boards and supports Myriam’s Women’s Shelter, Lydia’s Place and Women Inc. of Southwestern Pennsylvania and P.O.W.E.R., according to the KDKA website.
She was born in Goldsboro, N.C., and raised in Washington, D.C.
