Atlanta news anchor Jovita Moore passed away on Friday
after her battle with brain cancer. She was 53 years old.

Jovita anchored the 5 pm, 6 pm, and 11 pm news broadcasts
on Channel 2 action news.

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She joined WSB-TV in 1998 and went on to win multiple Emmy
Awards during her tenure. In addition, she was felicitated by the National
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Southeast Chapter and was inducted
into the Silver Circle in 2017.

Jovita was born in New York, US on October 4, 1968. She
pursued her Bachelor of Arts from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont.
She graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism with a
master’s degree in broadcast journalism. She began her career as a reporter at
KFSM-TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1990.

She subsequently went to work for WMC-TV in Memphis,
Tennessee. Georgia Trend Magazine named her to their list of 40 under 40 in
2007. In the same year, she was named one of Jezebel’s 50 most beautiful the
same year.

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Moore had gone to the doctor in mid-April of
2021 after feeling dizzy while strolling across the parking lot of a
grocery store.

“I was really concerned about why all of a sudden I was
forgetful, disoriented and just not feeling myself. Feeling like I was in a fog
and really wanting to get out of that fog,” Moore conveyed at that time.

She underwent surgery to remove two tiny tumours in her
brain after an MRI identified them.

She requested that WSB inform viewers that she had been
diagnosed with glioblastoma in July. There was not a cure for the
condition but rather a way to slow down its progression.

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“After a nearly
7-month battle with an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer, our colleague
and friend Jovita Moore has passed away,” Moore’s co-anchor Justin Farmer informed
in a video posted on the station’s website. “She passed last night, as she
wanted, with her family by her side. She passed peacefully.”