A woman described as a trailblazer in Rochester media has died. Former News 10NBC reporter Wyoma Best died Friday at the age of 74.
Best was the first African American woman reporter on Rochester television.
The station notesthat while at WHEC, Best was a tenacious reporter, tracking down then-Senator Ted Kennedy when he was in Brockport, to question him about the 1980 presidential race.
She worked at WHEC in the 1970s, and later became vice president of communications for the Rochester Chamber of Commerce.
Best had been battling a chronic illness for a number of years.
The Rochester Association of Black Journalists set up a scholarship in her name. Mayor Lovely Warren put out a statement on Saturday calling her a ‘trailblazing woman,” who “showed all the young girls in our community what they could aspire to.”
