Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey

• By Abbi and Louisa

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Biography

• She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi to a
  baptist family.
• Her parents were unmarried teenagers.
• Her mother was a house maid and her father was a
  coal miner.
• At the age of 6 she moved with her mother to
  Milwaukee, WI.
• She was molested by her cousin, uncle and family
  friend starting at the age of 9.

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Continued

• At age 13 she received a scholarship to Nicolet
  High School in the suburbs at Glendale, WI.
• When she was 14 she became pregnant but lost the
  baby after birth.
• She went to Tennessee State University.

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Career

• Age of 17 work at a local radio station.
• She moved to Baltimores WJZ-TV in 1976 to co-
  anchor the 6 o clock news.
• 1978 she co host of WJZs local talk show.
• Also hosted the local version of Dialing For
  Dollars there as well.
• 1983 she relocated to Chicago to host WLS- TV a
  low rating morning show.

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Cont.

• Within months the show took off and was the
  highest rated talk show in Chicago. It got
  renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1986.
• 1985 she co stared in a film The Color Purple.
• 1998 she produced and starred in the film
  Beloved.

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Cont.

• In 2005 the Harpo Production released a film call
  Their Eyes Were Watching God.
• She publishes 2 magazines O, the Oprah magazine
  and O at home.
• She has co-authored 5 books.
• 2006 signed a 3 year contracted with XM Satellite
  Radio to establish a new radio channel.

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Cont.

• The channel is called Oprah and Friends.
• In late 2006 Winfreys Harpo production and ABC
  revealed plans to bring two new reality TV shows
  to the air. One of the series is tentatively
  titled "Oprah Winfrey's The Big Give," and
  presents 10 people with large sums of money and
  resources and they must compete to find "the most
  powerful, sensational, emotional and dramatic
  ways to give to others." The second show,
  tentatively titled "Your Money or Your Life,"
  will unleash an "expert action team" every week
  to aid a family in overcoming a crisis through a
  "total money and life makeover."Winfrey will also
  voice a part in Bee movie coming out in 2007

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Journalism

• Winfrey changed the format of daytime talk show
  television by providing a platform for honest,
  sincere discussions of sensitive and sometimes
  controversial topics. Her nationally syndicated
  "Oprah Winfrey Show" was one of the most popular
  shows of the 1980s and lasted into the next
  century.

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Work Cited

• "Oprah Winfrey." Wikipedia. 13 July 2002. 6 Feb.
  2007 lthttp//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfreygt.
  
• Krohn, Katherine. Oprah Winfrey. Minneapolis
  Learner Publications, 2005. 1-112.