Pamela Bullard

Pamela Bullard, 68, of Philadelphia and formerly of Norwood, Mass., died Nov. 4 at her home.

Bullard was a reporter at the Boston Herald from 1971 to 1974, where she reported on court-ordered forced busing in Boston.

Later, she became a correspondent, editor, anchorwoman, and national documentary producer for multiple television stations, including WGBH in Boston, the Public Broadcasting Service, and WCVB, Channel 5, of Boston. Her award-winning TV programs focused on topics ranging from medical and health issues to life in Appalachia.

Bullard was an author and co-author whose work included ”The Hardest Lesson, Personal Accounts of a School Desegregation Crisis,” for which she received the Christopher Medal for Nonfiction; “Keepers of the Dream: The Triumph of Effective Schools”; “Making School Reform Happen”; and two novels, “More than Dreams” and “Powerfall.”

She was an assistant professor at Boston University’s then-School of Public Communication and taught at Emerson College from 1977 to 1980.

She leaves a brother, Roland; a sister, Nancy; several nieces and nephews.

The obituaries were written, at least in part, from published reports by Bulletin correspondents Ashleane Alabre, Sophie Cannon, Jenna Ciccotelli, Nico Hall, Joshua Leaston, Georgeanne Oliver, Julia Preszler and Thomas Ward, undergraduate students at Northeastern University.