Clarice Tinsley

{{Short description|American broadcast journalist (born 1954)}}

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| occupation = Television news anchor

| years_active = 1975—present

| employer = WITI (TV) (1974-1978)
KDFW (1978—present)

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| spouse = Stephen Giles (1987–present)

| awards = 1984 Peabody Award
1980 duPont Award

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Clarice Tinsley (born December 31, 1954) is an American broadcast journalist. In November 1978, she moved to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex to anchor the ten o'clock news for KDFW-TV (the CBS station for the market at the time, now a Fox O&O).{{cite news |work=Dallas Observer |title=Best TV News Anchor: Clarice Tinsley |url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/bestof/2009/award/best-tv-news-anchor-1529541/ |year=2009 |accessdate=January 13, 2017}} In 1979 the six o'clock news was added to her duties.{{cite news |first=Ed |last=Bark |work=The Dallas Morning News |title=Channel 4 replacing Clarice Tinsley at 6 p.m. Move to 5 p.m. news called bid to boost ratings |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DM&p_theme=dm&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0ED562A521A95DFC&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |date=December 31, 1991 |accessdate=May 8, 2012}} As of 2012, she is the longest-serving news anchor in the Dallas/Fort Worth television market.

Prior to KDFW, she spent three years working for WITI TV 6 in Milwaukee. At WITI her duties included being the host of a monthly community affairs show, news reporter and news anchor.{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Anthony |work=Milwaukee Sentinel |title=Journalists on Miller calendar include former WITI anchor |page=4-1 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dHFIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iRIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5340,3665527&dq=clarice-tinsley&hl=en |date=February 16, 1987 |accessdate=May 8, 2012 |archive-date=January 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126142328/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dHFIAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iRIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5340,3665527&dq=clarice-tinsley&hl=en |url-status=dead }}

Tinsley has appeared as a news anchor or reporter in several Dallas-based television productions, including The Good Guys, Prison Break, Walker, Texas Ranger and Dallas.