Lloyd Allen Dobyns, Jr. born March 12, 1936 (1936-03-12) (age 71) is a former NBC news reporter and correspondent. March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

He hosted Weekend from 1974 to 1979 and NBC News Overnight with Linda Ellerbee in the '80s before being replaced by Bill Schechner. Weekend was a short-lived television newsmagazine that ran on NBC from 1974 to 1979. ... NBC News Overnight was a television news program on the NBC television network airing weekday mornings from 1:30 a. ... Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith in Bryan, Texas, USA, August 15, 1944) is an outspoken journalist who is most famously known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight. ...

In 1980 he was a reporter on the successful TV documentary, If Japan can... Why can't we? about the reasons Japan was a manufacturing powerhouse as US industry struggled to keep up. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... This is the NBC News White Paper, broadcast in 1980, credited with beginning the Quality Revolution and introducing W. Edwards Deming to American managers. ...

As of 2007, Dobyns is producing podcasts for Colonial Williamsburg where he usually interviews various staff members about their particular specialty at the museum. ^[1] 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An orange square with waves indicates that an RSS feed is present on a web page. ... Colonial Williamsburg is the historic district of the independent city of Williamsburg, Virginia. ...

Born in Newport News, Virginia, he graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1957. Newport News is an independent city located in Virginia. ... Official language(s) English Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Area  Ranked 35th  - Total 42,793 sq mi (110,862 km²)  - Width 200 miles (320 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 7. ... Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington, Virginia, located adjacent to (but not affiliated with) Virginia Military Institute. ...

He started his broadcasting career in his hometown, eventually serving as an anchor at WAVY television in Portsmouth/Norfolk/Newport News in the 1960s. ... Map Political Statistics Founded 1752 County Independent city Mayor Dr. James W. Holley III Geographic Statistics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 120. ...

He was with NBC from 1969 to 1986. For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Next, he got involved in the Total Quality movement, partnering with W. Edwards Deming. Later he worked at the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot newspaper and taught journalism at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama where he became the Ayers Chair in the Department of Communication’s broadcast division.^[2] William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 - December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. ... The Virginian-Pilot is a daily newspaper based in Norfolk, Virginia and serving southeastern Virginia, Virginias Eastern Shore, and northeastern North Carolina. ... Jacksonville State University is a public, modern regional university serving Northeast Alabama on a 459 acre campus with 58 buildings in Jacksonville, Alabama which is in the Appalachian foothills of northeast Alabama. ... Jacksonville is a city in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,419 sq mi (135,765 km²)  - Width 190 miles (306 km)  - Length 330 miles (531 km)  - % water 3. ...

He became a member of the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 2003.^[3][4]

Dobyns has won 28 national awards including a George Foster Peabody medal. In presenting a 1975 award to Weekend, the Peabody committee noted that, "Felicity of style and polished journalistic professionalism are the distinctive wellsprings at the source of 'Weekend', produced and written for NBC by Reuven Frank and Lloyd Dobyns. A once-a-month magazine of television, inquiring into the off-trail, 'Weekend' is hereby honored not only for its content, but also as an instructive example of how the language can be employed with grace and precision." The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. ...

Dobyns' work has also earned a DuPont-Columbia Award, a 1982 Humanitas Prize and two Christophers. The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in broadcast journalism. ... Humanitas Prize is an award for film and TV writing deemed to promote human dignity, meaning, and freedom. ...

Books

Lloyd Dobyns co-authored two books with Clare Crawford-Mason

• Quality or Else: The Revolution in World Business ISBN 039563749X
• Thinking About Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy ISBN 0788169890

Notes

1. ^ Colonial Williamsburg podcasts with Lloyd Dobyns
2. ^ Lloyd Dobyns imparts lessons of a lifetime Warren Watson, American Press Institute, December 27, 2000
3. ^ Dobyns To Be Inducted into Virginia Communications Hall of Fame Jacksonville State University, March 31, 2003
4. ^ Lloyd Dobyns Bio at the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame (2003)