Telling The Story

I began to nice it sometime in the last few years. New reporters or interns would arrive at WXIA-TV in Atlanta, meet me, and ask how long I'd been with the station. "I'm going on nine years." Eyes would widen, followed by a six-letter word that was either being used as a question or a comment: "Really ..." I immediately felt the need to defend myself. These days, having reached ten years, I still occasionally get the impulse. But whenever I do, I come back to a fundamental truism of my outlook about my job: I just want to keep growing. Weeks like this one remind me how much. On Tuesday, my work received four Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. I had won Murrows before but never more than one in a given year. These stories reminded me how much I've grown since I arrived in Atlanta ten years ago. I share similar perspective on Episode #70 of the Telling the Story podcast. This is a non-traditional episode, featuring the reading of a recent blog post instead of a longform interview with a journalist or storyteller