Risk, initiative, persistence

Posted on October 21st, 2007 by Deborah Potter

You might think the news business is changing faster than ever before, but anyone who started in TV before videotape (like me) can tell you that it’s been in transition for years. John Goheen, the only three-time NPPA Photographer of the Year, has seen plenty of change in the 27 years he’s been [...]

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The hardest part of the job

Posted on October 21st, 2007 by Deborah Potter

Reporters call it “door knocking” and most of them hate it. Joe Fryer of KARE-TV in Minneapolis, Minn., is no exception. The one part of his job that he absolutely loathes, Fryer says, is asking family members to talk after someone they love has been killed or murdered.
Even after eight years in the [...]

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