What is Donna Britt?
'''Donna Britt''' (July 10, 1958 – January 21, 2021) was a longtime television news anchor at [[WAFB]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. She co-anchored the station's top rated 6 PM and 10 PM news broadcasts. As a student, she had been working for WYNK radio, and so in 1981 she decided to get a temporary job with [[WAFB]], the local CBS affiliate. She quickly moved from weekend reporter to full-time reporter to host of morning news shows to prime time, where she anchored ''9 News''.<ref>[http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=765909 WAFB Profile Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203542/http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=765909 |date=March 3, 2016 }} Retrieved May 3, 2010</ref> Britt was diagnosed with [[amyotrophic lateral sclerosis]] in 2017, and retired the following year. She died at her home on January 21, 2021, at age 62.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/longtime-wafb-anchor-donna-britt-dies-following-battle-with-als|title=Longtime WAFB anchor Donna Britt dies following battle with ALS|work=[[KATC (TV)|KATC]]|date=January 21, 2021|access-date=January 21, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_fb83e03c-5bf7-11eb-ad95-5f68c0078d99.html|title = Donna Britt, longtime WAFB news anchor, dies after battle with ALS|work = [[The Advocate (Louisiana)|The Advocate]]|date = January 21, 2021|access-date = January 21, 2021|last = Morris|first = George}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Britt, Donna}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Journalists from Louisiana]] [[Category:American television personalities]] [[Category:Writers from Baton Rouge, Louisiana]] [[Category:People from Biloxi, Mississippi]] [[Category:Deaths from motor neurone disease]] {{US-bio-stub}}