Silver Award of Excellence

CLARICE TINSLEY

Thousands of newscasts.

Over a half-million stories.

Every major news event since 1978.

One Voice.

Clarice Tinsley has been bringing North Texas the news on KDFW at 10pm for 47 years. Along the way, she’s earned numerous honors, and the respect and trust of generations. Most recently, Clarice was inducted into the Gold Circle of the Lone Star Emmy Awards, in recognition of her 50 years in broadcasting.

Clarice won the George Foster Peabody Award for her investigation
into the Dallas emergency response system. Her research and reporting resulted in new protocols, new training, and countless lives saved.

Whether heading up the Mayor’s Smart Summer Reading Program, as she has since 2008 or devoting time and talent to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, MLK Jr. Oratory Competition, community involvement is in Ms. Tinsley’s DNA.

In January 2025 Clarice received The Trailblazer Award from the City of Dallas, Office of Community Care at the 43^rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship and Award Gala. Clarice was inducted into the 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. In April 2017, the State Fair of Texas announced the creation of the Clarice Tinsley Journalism Scholarship. This educational opportunity is given to a college recipient who is studying to become a broadcast or print journalist.

In May 2016, the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters was bestowed upon Clarice, as she was hooded in the crimson and gold colors of Austin College in Sherman, Texas.

In addition to the George Foster Peabody Award, Clarice has earned a DuPont- Columbia Citation, three Dallas Press Club Katie Awards, three Lone Star EMMYS, Best Investigative Reporting from Texas Associated Press, the Texas Headliner Award for Investigative Reporting, the Journalistic Award for Excellence from the American College of Emergency Physicians and First Place from the Texas Public Health Association.

Clarice shares her home with her husband, Sales Executive Stephen Giles, her mother, retired educator Janet Tinsley, and their cat, Legacy.

And if you’re reading this, you can be sure you’ll see Clarice on FOX 4 news every weeknight. Now, Then. Always at 10:00.