Olive Talley, an award-winning producer, journalist and manager of creative teams, will headline the 2026 TIPA Hall of Fame banquet on March 20. Her 50-year journalism career has spanned all platforms: TV, newspapers, wire services, radio and the web, network television and independent filmmaking. In that time, she has earned a reputation for toughness, fairness and compassion in her work.

While she’s interviewed and worked with high profile people and well-known companies, Talley believes character and integrity matter the most in telling a story, whether the focus is a billion-dollar firm or a farmer struggling to make ends meet in rural America.

She reported for The Dallas Morning News, The Houston Post, The Houston Chronicle, United Press International and radio stations in Houston, San Antonio and Austin. For more than a decade, she held staff producer positions at both ABC and NBC in New York City. At Dateline NBC, she worked closely with Stone Phillips, Hoda Kotb, Rob Stafford and other correspondents while at ABC’s Prime Time Live!, she produced stories for Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson.

After Talley left the news business full time, the nonprofit Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth hired her as executive producer to conceptualize and create over 60 hours of video content and branded materials to train others about its trust-based intervention for at-risk youth. The Healing Families Series of videos she produced, funded largely by the Rees-Jones Foundation of Dallas, generate revenue for the nonprofit and form the backbone for outreach programs that teach families and professionals about the impact of trauma on child development.

Talley also has held executive positions in a production company that created certified training videos for police, fire and healthcare professionals throughout the US, and an online video channel, where she teamed up with legendary North Texas newsman Tracy Rowlett, to create an online platform designed to educate the public about the natural gas industry.