When Vickie Thomas announced last week that she was retiring from WWJ-AM (950) after 30 years, accolades began arriving from listeners, major players in politics and her competitors at Detroit s media outlets.
The Wayne County Commission declared April 22 as Vickie Thomas Day. The commission’s chair, Alisha Bell, describe the city beat reporter as “a broadcasting legend whose work has touched so many lives through her work and commitment to the community.”
Thursday is her final day at the all-news station (although she will continue to do her weekly Black Business Minute segment for WWJ). She ll be on the air starting around 7:30 a.m., and she plans to share details then on what comes next for her.
WWJ reporter Vickie Thomas announces retirement
The Detroit News
Award-winning longtime WWJ Newsradio 950-AM reporter Vickie Thomas is retiring this month, she announced Friday on Twitter. It s been an amazing ride working with the outstanding professionals at WWJ . the BEST news team around! the broadcaster tweeted. I ve truly been blessed!!
Thomas, the city beat reporter at WWJ, said her last day on air is April 29 but she plans to continue a weekly podcast, Black Business Minute.
The Metro Detroit native joined the station in 1991.
During her career she earned honors from groups including the Detroit Press Foundation, the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, the Michigan Associated Press and the National Association of Black Journalists, according to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame, into which she was inducted in 2019.
Acclaimed city beat reporter Vickie Thomas announced on Thursday that she is retiring from Detroit s WWJ-AM (950).
Thomas posted on Twitter that she ll be leaving the station after 30 years, but listeners will still be able to hear my #BlackBusinessMinute each week. It s been an amazing ride working with the outstanding professionals at WWJ.the BEST news team around! I ve truly been blessed!!, she wrote.
Her last day on the air will be April 29.
Inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame in 2019, Thomas grew up in Highland Park and became interested in journalism as a student at Detroit s Henry Ford High School.
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