Maggie wade biography
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University News
President Blake Thompson presents Maggie Wade with her Mississippi College diploma at Thursday's special commencement honoring the outstanding WLBT-TV 3 news anchor.
Maggie Wade’s splendid career as a journalist spans more than three decades, with her “Wednesday’s Child” broadcasts on Jackson’s WLBT-TV 3 generating prestigious awards.
The Mississippian’s strengths as a communicator, role model, news anchor, and loving parent with a big heart for her community are off the charts. Maggie’s sea of admirers spans the USA. She’s received more than 500 awards over the years.
Her fan base is strong at Mississippi College, where leaders awarded her a bachelor of science degree in business administration on December 10 ceremonies. Maggie Wade began her studies in the early 1980s, but now President Blake Thompson and other leaders are proud to call the WLBT-TV news anchor an alumna.
“This is such a blessing,”
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Maggie Wade Dixon and André Dixon — The couple that laughs together
By Katie Eubanks
Maggie Wade Dixon and André Dixon
The couple that laughs together
Maggie Wade Dixon drives more carefully now.
But there was an incident when the veteran news anchor made contact with a few mailboxes while tearing through the neighborhood in her husband’s Chevy Tahoe.
Here’s the story:
“We had went out to dinner, and it didn’t sit well with her, inom guess,” says André Dixon. “And she was ansträngande to get home to the bathroom in a hurry. … She hit about three mailboxes in the neighborhood.”
“I didn’t hit them, they just slid … ” Maggie starts.
“OK, how a mailbox slide into the truck?”
(A brief discussion of the technicalities follows.)
“Oh, what’s it called? You didn’t hit them, you just sideswiped them,” André says. “Sh
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You're so Mississippi: Maggie Wade
Maggie Wade Dixon hugs you like she loves you.
Throughout conversation she occasionally interjects, "But God is good." When she says goodbye, she exhorts you to "be blessed."
Coming out of anyone else’s mouth, her words could sound phony.
But Maggie has no guile. That could be why Jackson-area TV viewers have been watching her for three decades.
She’s been talking to The Clarion-Ledger photographer Justin Sellers and me for 10 minutes — down the hall to the dressing room, through a quick powdering of the nose and brushing of the hair, on into the studio — when I realize she’s only got another 10 till air time.
And she keeps on talking with us until she only has 30 seconds left.
I back away from the desk. She checks her mic, opens her iPad and prepares to be Maggie Wade, WLBT.
Strong as the tree, beautiful as the flower
Maggie’s grandfather, a cotton farmer called Big Daddy, named her Magnolia after her grandmother.
“I hated it for most