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- Worked for ABC News for 23 years, starting in Chicago as an editor for ABC Radio’s Paul Harvey, then for TV as a producer, then in 1973 becoming a correspondent. In 1977 assigned to ABC’s bureau in London, then in 1982 to Paris, and in mid-1986 to ABC's new bureau in Denver. In 1992, when asked to move to New York, opted instead to retire from the network.
- Memorable domestic news stories covered: the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the San Francisco earthquake, the execution of Gary Gilmore, the Watergate hearings, the Indian occupation of Wounded Knee, and various political campaigns and presidential conventions.
- Major foreign news stories: the Gulf War (in Saudi Arabia, at the Pentagon, and at the United Nations), the revolution and then the occupation of the US embassy in Iran; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt; the civil war in and the ejection of the PLO from Beirut; the Iran-Iraq war; the rise of the Solidarity trade union and imposition of martial law in Poland; the evolution of leadership in the Soviet Union; the civil war and deaths of IRA hunger-strikers in Northern Ireland; the civil war in Rhodesia; the American bombing of Libya; the ouster of Idi Amin from Uganda; the assassination of Anwar Sadat in Egypt; the deaths of Popes; and last and least, the ill-fated Royal Wedding of Charles and Diana in England.
- Won two national Emmy awards: one for "Best Spot News Coverage on a Network" for coverage of a terrible earthquake in Italy in 1980, the other for "Best Network Documentary" in 1989 for a documentary on the environmental poisoning of America. Also won the "Distinguished Service Award" from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1981. At Denver’s KOA Radio as a talk show host, twice won the Colorado Broadcasters Association Award of Excellence for “Best Public Affairs” and “News/Info” Program. Also was honored for the show by Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and in 2003 as a talk show host at KNRC Radio, named by Westword Magazine as Denver’s Best Radio Talk Show Host.
- Hosted Colorado State of Mind since 2003 on Rocky Mountain PBS. Won regional Emmy in its first year for “Best Interview/Discussion Program.”
- Written opinion columns first for The Denver Post for six years, and from early 2001 for the Rocky Mountain News (originally a bi-weekly critique of the performance of the serious news media) Also write nationally syndicated column for the Scripps Howard News Service, and for Evergreen Colorado’s Canyon Courier. Also, in 1999, helped found and continue to serve as Executive Editor of online magazine BoomerCafé (www.boomercafe.com).
- Taught at University of Colorado’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications since 1995: courses on broadcast newswriting for upperclassmen majoring in journalism and investigative journalism for Masters. In 2001 was named “Adjunct Professor of the Year.” Also have written a university-level textbook on broadcast writing and reporting, published in 2004 by AB Longman, entitled Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News.
- Reported and produced stories for National Geographic Television.
- Born San Francisco, California, 9 October 1946. B.A. University of California at Berkeley, MSJ Northwestern University. Married, two grown sons. Recreation: mountain biking & skiing.
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