R.I.P. Doris Biscoe

Celebrated Detroit news anchor, Doris Biscoe, has died age 77...

From WXYZ

Doris Biscoe, a trailblazing WXYZ anchor and reporter who graced Detroit TV airwaves for more than 25 years, died Friday at the age of 77.

Biscoe, who was born in Washington D.C. in 1946, joined WXYZ as a night reporter in 1973. She previously worked as a radio DJ in Maryland and hosted a weekly public affairs show in Washington D.C. before coming to Detroit.

Throughout her tenure at WXYZ, Biscoe was one of the most visible Black broadcast journalists in Detroit, and throughout America,.

"If somebody tells me, 'No, you can't do it,' then I'm going to make sure I damn well do it. I'm just that kind of tough nut," she said in a 1998 Detroit Free Press interview.

Biscoe was revered by her colleagues, who praised her dogged ability to chase a story while never losing her cool. In 1984, she famously found presidential candidate Jesse Jackson for an interview on a San Francisco street.

“I lost my shoe. I got the interview, though,” she told the Detroit Free Press.

She had a brush with movies when she played a newscaster in 1987’s “The Rosary Murders” starring Donald Sutherland, which was filmed in the Motor City.

In 1994, Biscoe was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle, honoring 25 years in television.

After departing from WXYZ, Biscoe headed her own media training company, Doris Biscoe Communications.