Nika C. Beamon
@nikac.beamon
About
NikaC. Beamon resides in New Jersey.Currently, she is a Writer/Producer for WABC-TVEyewitness News in New York. In her fifteen years as a journalist, she hasworked at various television stations including WABU-TV in Boston,ESPN Classic and WABC-TV in New York. She also served as Coordinating Producer for“Like It Is with Gil Noble,” the country’s longest running African Americanpublic affairs show, airing on WABC-TV.
She is the author of IDIDN'T WORK THISHARD JUST TO GETMARRIED, published on May 1, 2009 by ChicagoReview PressWritten in the best tradition of girlfriend talking to girlfriend, thebook delivers tales of lessons learned, hard times and good times, told bywomen who found ways to achieve their dreams by defying convention. Theirconclusion: Singlehood, whether temporary or permanent, and though oftenchallenging, is a fulfilling state.
In 2000, she published her first novel, Dark Recesses.In 2002, she completed her second novel, Eyewitness.
She has been a reviewer for Publisher’s Weekly Magazine and QBR: TheQuarterly Black Book Review Magazine, as well as various websites. She is alsoa member of the Writers Guild of America East and the National Association ofBlack Journalists. She won a Peabody Award for ABCNews’ coverage of the September 11th Attacks.
She has alsobeen credited as a reference in the several books on television newsincluding: Covering Catastrophe: BroadcastJournalist Report on September 11 by Alison Gilbert and Newsis People: the Rise of Local TV News and the Fall of News from New Yorkby Craig M. Allen.
