Longtime Newsman Paul Davis Dies at Age 82

Longtime television newsman Paul Davis has died at age 82.

Davis died of cancer Sunday night at a Gibson City care facility where he had been living since his illness had progressed.

Davis worked at Channel 3 WCIA-TV for 20 years before heading to Chicago in 1980 to head a revamp of WGN-TV News into a well-respected nationally-known news operation.

He was an Effingham native, though, born in 1938 to Plaford and Zona B. Davis. He began his media career working with his mother on WCRA Radio in Effingham before going to college and then to Channel 3.

He is survived by his daughter and two sons.