Reynelda Muse

Reynelda Muse (born November 16, 1946) She attended Ohio State University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English in 1968.

Career Fresh out of college and newly married to a University of Denver law student, Muse joined KOA-TV (Channel 4) in 1968 as a general assignment reporter. For the next four years, she commuted between Atlanta and her home and family in Denver. a post she filled until November 1997. She also hosted the American Skyline series exploring "cultural events, music and art around the United States" for Denver's Pacific Mountain network, and narrated the 1981 Spoonful of Loving documentary series on childhood development for KRMA-TV. For many years, hers was one of the pre-recorded voices greeting and directing passengers on the underground trains at the Denver International Airport.

In October 1997 Muse announced her decision to retire from television news; her last newscast was on November 26, 1997. She cited changes in programming at the station, which planned to replace the 6:30 pm news program with the game show Hollywood Squares, as influencing her decision.

Other activities

Muse maintained a close association with the Denver arts community, being the spokesperson for Arts for Colorado and a member of the advisory boards of the Mayor's Commission on the Arts, Culture and Film; the Cherry Creek Arts Festival; the Metro State College Center for the Visual Arts; the Denver International Film Society; and the black theater company Shadow Theatre. She produced a weekly spot for KCNC-TV called "City Beats" spotlighting the arts. She received Emmy nominations in 1990, 1993, and 1996.

In 1993 she was the first female recipient of the Broadcaster of the Year award from the Colorado Broadcasters Association. She also won the First Amendment Freedom Prize from the Anti-Defamation League.

She was inducted into several halls of fame: the Denver Press Club Hall of Fame (1996), the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (1997),

Fifteen years after her retirement as a news anchor, she was among 75 finalists selected by readers in a Denver Post survey as one of "Colorado's most influential women".

The Reynelda Muse Television Journalism Scholarship was established in her honor in 1998 by the Colorado Association of Black Journalists. The one-year scholarship is awarded annually to an African American student majoring in television journalism at an accredited Colorado college.

Personal life Reynelda Muse's first husband was Daniel Muse, a fellow Ohioan and University of Denver Law School graduate They married in 1969 and divorced in 1991. They have three children. From 1974 to 1987 the family lived in the Schulz-Neef House, an historic home built in 1881 in the Whittier neighborhood of Denver. Muse remarried to Marion Iverson in 1997. Following her retirement from television news, Muse relocated to Gary, Indiana, where Iverson was a professor of labor studies at Indiana University Northwest.