Barbara Marshall
{{short description|American journalist}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Barbara Marshall
|image =
|office = Chair Honolulu City Council
|term_start = January 2, 2007
|term_end = November 12, 2008
| preceded = Donovan M. Dela Cruz
| succeeded = Todd K. Apo
|office2 = Honolulu City Council member, District III
|term_start2 = January 2003
|term_end2 = February 22, 2009
| preceded2 = Steve Holmes
| succeeded2 = Ikaika Anderson
|birth_name = Barbara Novak Marshall
|birth_date = {{birth date|1944|3|5}}
|birth_place = Berwyn, Illinois, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|2009|2|22|1944|3|5}}
|death_place = Orange County, California, U.S.
|residence = Kailua, Hawaii, U.S.
|spouse = Cliff Ziems
|children = Joe Marshall
|occupation = Television Journalist
|education = BS, Radio-TV Journalism
|alma_mater = University of Illinois
|website = http://www.BarbaraMarshall.org}}
Barbara Novak Marshall (March 5, 1944 – February 22, 2009) was an American television broadcast journalist and politician. She was elected three times to the Honolulu City Council in Honolulu, Hawaii following her retirement from broadcasting.
Marshall was known throughout Hawaii for a long career as an investigative journalist, consumer advocate, documentary filmmaker, news anchor and reporter for KHON-TV television station.Honolulu Star-Bulletin (21 October 2002). "[http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/10/21/news/story5.html Reporters go from limelight to political spotlight—5 former television journalists are headed for the Nov. 5 election]" retrieved 23 October 2017.{{cite news|title= TV journalists try their hand at political office |url= http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Jul/16/ln/ln27a.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030119072529/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2002/Jul/16/ln/ln27a.html|archive-date= 19 January 2003|last= Arakawa |first= Lynda |newspaper= Honolulu Advertiser|date= 16 July 2002 |access-date= 23 October 2017}}
Biography
Born Barbara Novak in Berwyn, Illinois she went on to become the first female graduate of the Radio and Television Journalism program at the University of Illinois in 1965. As Barbara Novak, she broke through television journalism's glass ceiling to become the first woman Radio-TV grad to anchor a regularly scheduled broadcast television news program in the United States. She rose to further prominence as Barbara Marshall in Boston, where she worked for a decade as an award-winning reporter for two Boston television stations, first for channel 56 WLVI and then for channel 4 {{Cite journal|last=Nierstedt|first=Jenna|date=April 13, 2009|title=Barbara Marshall, TV reporter in Boston, official in Honolulu|journal=The Boston Globe|location=Boston, MA|publisher=The Boston Globe.}} WBZ-TV. A number of her interviews and stories were broadcast on NBC-TV network newscasts.
Marshall transported her career to Honolulu in 1979, working for 23 years as reporter, news anchor and producer for channel 2 KHON. During her tenure at KHON, Marshall initiated Action Line (a TV-consumer complaint line), live television election coverage and created the first morning news program in Hawaii. She won awards for two documentaries: One on the eruption of the Kilauea volcano, and another on the life of Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka. {{citation needed|date=June 2009}}
In 2002, she won a seat on the Honolulu City Council in her first attempt at elective office. She was reelected to the council seat on September 18, 2004 and again on September 25, 2008 and was elected chairman by her peers on January 2, 2007.{{cite news|title= Honolulu Councilwoman Barbara Marshall dies|date= 22 February 2009 |url= http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Feb/22/br/hawaii90222046.html |newspaper= the Honolulu Advertiser |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101215094401/http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Feb/22/br/hawaii90222046.html |archive-date= 15 December 2010|access-date= 23 October 2017}}
Personal
Marshall died on February 22, 2009, aged 64, after an eight-month battle with colon cancer.{{cite web|url=http://www.starbulletin.com/news/breaking/40062653.html|title=Council member Barbara Marshall dies at 64|date=2009-02-12|publisher=starbulletin.com|access-date=2009-02-23| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090225080956/http://www.starbulletin.com/news/breaking/40062653.html| archive-date= 25 February 2009 | url-status= live}} Marshall's husband, Cliff Ziems, endorsed her aide, Ikaika Anderson, to fill her city council seat;{{cite news |url= http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Mar/10/ln/hawaii903100322.html |newspaper= The Honolulu Advertiser|title= 11 file to run for Marshall's City Council seat |access-date=April 5, 2014}} he was elected in a special election and was sworn into office on May 27, 2009.{{cite news |url= http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/May/27/br/hawaii90527064.html |newspaper= The Honolulu Advertiser|title= Ikaika Anderson sworn into office |access-date=April 5, 2014}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20040807041515/http://www.honolulu.gov/council/d3/hmpg.htm Honolulu Council - Barbara Marshall]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725165345/http://www.khon2.com/news/local/40071942.html Remembering Former KHON2 Reporter Barbara Marshall] KHON2 news story with video.
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Category:American television journalists
Category:Deaths from cancer in Hawaii
Category:Deaths from colorectal cancer
Category:Honolulu City Council members
Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Media alumni
Category:Women in Hawaii politics
Category:People from Berwyn, Illinois
Category:Politicians from Cook County, Illinois
Category:Women city councillors in Hawaii
Category:Journalists from Illinois
Category:American women television journalists
Category:20th-century American women journalists