Peter Jennings was my inspiration for choosing graduate school in broadcast journalism over law school. Peter’s former executive producer basically recruited me, over lunch at the Harvest in Harvard Square, to enter the master’s program at the Boston University College of Communication.
Although I left television news for a fellowship at Harvard University and, later, for my passion for writing and StrangeTango.com, my experiences at World News Tonight with Peter Jennings left its mark on my hard news judgment and what I choose to post. I will always remember "The Rim," the morning call presided over by Rick Kaplan, lunch in Peter’s office, and shadowing in the wings as this consummate professional settled into the anchor desk each evening.
As an intern at ABC News in New York, and then later at CNN International in Atlanta, I also gleaned much from my interactions with Michael Schulder, then a writer on the program and now a Senior Executive Producer at CNN Atlanta; I was also shown the ropes by Bob Aglow, then a national producer at WNT who became Executive Producer, News Coverage, MSNBC on the Internet, and is now the founder of ClimateQuest.
The 8x10 autographed photo is a lovely memento I’ll always treasure...
(photo from my personal collection)
