Nann Goplerud

Nann Goplerud has had a lifelong award-winning career as a broadcast journalist. She worked at WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth for 21 years. During that time, she held many roles including Executive Producer of Special Projects. In that position, she was in charge of the investigative unit, the station campaign Family First, and other major news projects. Goplerud was Executive Producer on two investigative projects that won the two most prestigious awards in broadcast journalism – the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award. She also led the WFAA team that won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television for Political Journalism. Goplerud won numerous other honors during her 30-year broadcast career. She was selected as a 2003-2004 Ethics Fellow at the acclaimed Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. She previously worked as a senior news reporter at WFAA-TV and at KDFW-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth, a freelance syndication news writer/producer at CBS News in New York City, and a news reporter at WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas.

From 2006 to 2015, Goplerud was a fulltime faculty member at the University of North Texas in Denton. Prior to her retirement from UNT in 2015, she served four years as Interim Chair of the Department of News in the Mayborn School of Journalism. As a principal lecturer, she taught advanced broadcast/web writing, media ethics and the broadcast practicum during which students produced TV newscasts, daily TV headlines, webcasts and a Spanish language TV newscast. Goplerud also served as station manager for Denton Community TV (DCTV), the public access and student television station for the city of Denton. In addition, she raised funds to start a student online radio station. She was a member of the advisory board of the Carole Kneeland Project for Responsible Journalism for several years. She has also served for many years on the Professional Excellence Committee of the Headliners Foundation of Texas. 

Goplerud holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in RTVF/broadcast journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.