Telling The Story

Many of us in the TV news business spend the years of our 20s trying to "make it". We expend all of our energy building our craft, learning from others, staying afloat, and climbing the ladder to a point of relative stability in a ruthlessly unstable industry. Then we get to our 30s, and we make a conscious choice to begin to give back. I know I went through that process. It's why I started this blog four years ago. It's why I almost always accept requests to speak at workshops and conferences. It's why I helped organize and direct a workshop back in June. (It's also why I have been working on an exciting project for which I'll be making a special announcement next week.) And it's why I began the Telling the Story podcast, in which I always devote a segment with my guest about advice for younger journalists. My guest on this episode has fulfilled the same calling in a magnificent way. He is the director of photojournalism at KING-TV in Seattle, but he is perhaps even more highly regarded as the founder of Sto