Tammie Fields
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Tammie Fields is an evening anchor with Spectrum News 13.
She is the host of the award winning Justice for All show which tackles social justice issues. She also highlights an outstanding educator each week during her A+ Teacher segment. This segment has a special meaning to her: Tammie is the daughter of two retired teachers.
It is Tammie’s love of history that shaped her future, leading her to become a journalist — or as she puts it, a recorder of history. Tammie has covered several historical events in the Orlando area, including the Groveland Four, the Ocoee Election Day Race Massacre, and “Integration in The City Beautiful.” She has interviewed white supremacist David Duke and John Paul Rogers, a Central Florida former Grand Dragon of the United Klans of America who ran for mayor in Lake Wales. She was most recently recognized with a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Justice For All: Hate Groups on the Rise in which she interviewed the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio.
Tammie has flown with the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and interviewed former first lady Laura Bush and R&B singer Brian McKnight. She has also had the privilege to meet the late civil rights leader Coretta Scott King and her daughter, the late Yolanda King, at an annual breakfast honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in South African History and recently earned her master’s degree from the University of South Florida in Digital Journalism & Design. She is a proud member of the National Association of Black Journalists.