Rickey Bevington

Award-winning journalist Rickey Bevington is GPB’s Senior News Editor. Rickey is also in her second season with GPB-TV’s Georgia Traveler bringing you up close and personal with Georgia’s Civil War sites. Rickey has also appeared on the PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio, Marketplace, The Takeaway, and in Fodor’s travel guides. Rickey has been recognized with awards and nominations from the Atlanta Press Club as “Journalist of the Year,” the Southeastern Emmy Awards, the Society of Professional Journalists, Public Radio News Directors International, the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, and the Associated Press of Georgia.

Atlanta-born but Boston-raised, Rickey made her way from high school on a dairy farm in southern Vermont to Barnard College in New York City. While at Barnard, she began her broadcast career at Sundance Channel. After graduation Rickey joined Showtime Networks as a Production Coordinator until moving to Hartford where she spent two years as an Assignment Editor and Associate Producer for WFSB-TV 3, Connecticut’s CBS television news affiliate. Her foray into public broadcasting came when she started as a volunteer at Connecticut Public Radio. She eventually landed a position hosting Saturday morning programming for the station.

Since joining GPB in 2006, Rickey has served as Executive Producer and Host of GPB Radio’s daily news magazine Georgia Gazette, the Consumer Call-In, Morning Edition, All Things Considered and state and national election day poll returns and analysis. For GPB-TV, Rickey has anchored the Georgia News Briefs, State of the Arts, Dinosaur Week, and has moderated and paneled Atlanta Press Club debates including for the 2009 Atlanta mayoral runoff and 2010 Insurance Commissioner race.

Rickey currently serves as Chair of the Oglethorpe University Museum of Art and is an active alumna of L.E.A.D. Atlanta and member of the Columbia Club of Atlanta.