Telling The Story

Let me first say the following: Thank you. I did not anticipate reaching 50 podcast episodes -- or four years of the blog as a whole -- when I recorded my first one in 2013. I have continued to write these posts and produce these episodes, in part, because of the consistent and genuine encouragement I have received from readers like you. That feedback helps keep me going. The other thing that keeps me going? It's a sentiment expressed with beauty and brevity by my guest on this milestone episode: "Always the student. Always learning." I would admire anyone who follows that philosophy, regardless of profession, but I especially admire those who preach it in local television news ... because it can be so easy to do the opposite. The business often seems to conspire sameness, and I strive to find guests on this podcast who never get comfortable or complacent. Fortunately for me, and for anyone who works at WXIA-TV in Atlanta, such a person has been the spirit of our newsroom for two decades. Brenda Wood is the r