Telling The Story

Before you listen to this podcast, you need to watch a video. This video. This is a snippet from an interview with Will Ferrell, where host Katie Couric plays a clip of the actor's work in college as an aspiring sportscaster. At the 42-second mark, you see Ferrell pontificating about a beauty pageant, deadpanning about the contestants while a co-anchor nods graciously and holds Ferrell's microphone. That co-anchor is John Le, and he is my guest on this episode of the Telling The Story podcast. We all know what became of Ferrell, but his sidekick in that clip has developed an illustrious career of his own. Le is regarded as one of the top feature reporters in the industry and has won five regional Edward R. Murrow awards along with a rising stack of regional Emmys. He is a finalist for this year's NPPA national Best of Photojournalism award for Reporting. He is also a hoot. Perhaps Ferrell's comedic instincts rubbed off on him (or maybe it was the reverse?), but Le is an effervescent presence whose personality