Derek McGinty is an American

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and television journalist, who in the 2010s anchored for

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in Washington, D.C.

Career

McGinty spent much of his early career hosting a radio talk show called ''The Derek McGinty Show'' from 1991 to 1998 on

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in Washington. There he covered local and national politics, hosted segments with "the computer guys", and offered a broad, eclectic mix of guests. Before that, he was a newsman on WHUR-FM, Howard University's commercial radio station. In October 1997, McGinty began to appear as a freelance reporter on the

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news program ''Public Eye with

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''. After several months, he made the move permanent and left WAMU in January 1998. McGinty joined

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in New York City, where he appeared on ABC's ''

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'', and ''

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'', HBO's ''

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'', and WUSA's ''Eye on Washington''. In August 2015, his contract was not renewed for on-air news anchoring, but he announced that he would continue to host WUSA's Sunday morning show ''Capital Download''.

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