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Joyce Davis
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Opinion Editor, The Patriot-News
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Joyce M. Davis also is Opinion Editor for PennLive and The Patriot-News and has a distinguished career working for some of the most respected media organizations in the United States. She also is President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, an organization she founded in 2010 with a group of internationally connected community leaders in Central Pennsylvania. Davis moved to the Harrisburg area in 2008 from Prague, Czech Republic, to accept the position of Vice President of Content for WITF, a multi-media news organization that is an affiliate of National Public Radio. Davis spent five years as Director of Communications for the City of Harrisburg and supervisor of WHBG Channel 20, the region’s government and public affairs television station. She also is an award-winning journalist and internationally acclaimed author who has lived and worked around the globe. Before moving to Harrisburg, Davis was Associate Director of Broadcasting for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czech Republic. In her senior role at the international broadcasting agency, Ms. Davis supervised hundreds of reporters and editors assigned to radio and internet services to Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the countries of Central Asia. Davis also worked as Deputy Foreign Editor and Special Correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers, once the second-largest newspaper chain in the United States. Davis worked from Knight Ridder’s Washington bureau in the National Press Club building and served as chair of the National Press Club’s Speakers Bureau. Before joining Knight Ridder, Davis worked with National Public Radio from 1990-1997, joining as Middle East Editor before being promoted to Deputy Foreign Editor. She also served NPR as Senior Foreign Editor and Director of News Staffing. Davis began her career as a night side reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune, where she spent the first 18 years of her career, serving as night City Editor, Assistant Metro Editor, consumer columnist and editor of an international Op-Ed column for the editorial page, an idea she initiated due to her early interest in global affairs. She is fluent to conversant in several foreign languages, having lived three times abroad in France, Athens and Prague. Davis is author of many articles, broadcasts and two books: Between Jihad and Salaam: Profiles in Islam, written in 1997 and published by St. Martin’s Press; and Martyrs: Innocence, Vengeance and Despair in the Middle East, written in 2002 and published by Palgrave Macmillan. She also has authored a chapter in The Trauma of Terrorism, a compendium of the writings of experts in the field edited by Yael Danieli, Danny Brom, Joe Sills and published by The Haworth Press in 2005. Davis has appeared on many national and international news programs and was frequently called to speak as an international affairs expert, including at the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the United Nations, the U.S. Department of State, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Georgetown University and American University. In 2002, the U.S. Secretary of State’s Open Forum awarded Davis a “Distinguished Service Award” and Women in International Security, based in Washington, D.C., also named Davis to its Hall of Fame. In 2006, Kyrgyz International University awarded her an honorary doctorate degree for her work in advancing a free and independent press in the former Soviet Union, and for securing the free flow of information to Kyrgyzstan during the downfall of its dictatorial regime in the “Tulip Revolution” of 2005. Davis has received three other honorary doctorate degrees. In May 2018, Austin College in Texas awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters following her commencement address. In 2017, Lebanon Valley College awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and in May 2016 Central Penn College did the same. Davis attended Loyola University in New Orleans and completed a Master’s level journalism program at the Center for the Formation and Perfection of Journalism in Paris as part of the Journalists in Europe program sponsored by the European Union and Columbia University. Davis was one of two American journalists selected to participate in the program. Davis recently was honored with the Legacy Award of the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg as well as the volunteer award from Power Women Entrepreneurs, an organization helping South Asian immigrants in our region. Davis lives in Susquehanna Township with her husband, Russell W. Goodman, a Pastor of New Branches Ministries. Her son, Cole Davis Goodman, is Deputy Clerk of Courts for Dauphin County.
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