Martha Iglehart was the first African-American woman reporter at KFDX 3 News Wichita Falls starting in 1978.
Current KFDX reporter Markeshia Jackson invited Iglehart back to the station to talk about the struggles of getting hired in the TV news business all those decades ago.
“I came out to the station, interviewed with the station manager and he says, the internship program has been discontinued and I was willing to work for free because experience is key, particularly in this industry,” Iglehart said. “About three weeks later a friend of mine said, hey guess what? A friend of mine got an internship at Channel 3 and she’s going to get paid for it. And I was like wow.”
