Day & Night

What a day. Yesterday morning I wrapped up co-anchoring the 9 am show and then sprinted upstairs. I have to hand it to Andrea Roane and Janet Terry. That's the two right there on the right. Well you already know who Andrea is. But the two of them are kind of the den mothers of the newsroom. When someone is in need, they jump into action. A few weeks ago while the rest of us were walking around in a fog, they acted. The news was about Michael Lacore, he's a courageous firefighter to you. To us he's that, but he's also the son of a good friend and colleague Madeline Lacore.

After Michael was seriously hurt following a fire in the district, Janet and Andrea went to the hospital to see Madeline. It's one thing to come and visit someone at the hospital. It's another thing altogether to come up with a solution. They put together in short order a blood drive here at the station. It was their way of responding to the needs of the firefighters hurt in the fire.

Yesterday after I got off the air I went upstairs and once again was reminded why I have so much respect for my co-workers. There they were from every department waiting to give blood to help the firefighters. I was sandwiched between engineer Joe Zentner who was on one side, on the other Janet Terry.

The Sales Department, the Engieneering Department, the News Department were all represented. Just like our news it takes everyone to put on a newscast, and in order to come up with a successful blood drive you need all of these people too. I'm proud of the people I work with.

I talk about them every morning, and last night I became one. I was a red car. We went up to Baltimore for a reception for the 2007 Dart Ochberg Fellows. It too forever, but it was worth it. It's an amazing group of journalists from around the world. I spent a considerable amount of time with a correspondent from ABC.

Lisa Millar though is a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She's doing some amazing things to advance the Dart cause overseas. The Dart Center and it's satelites around the world are trying to change the way we do journalism. To bring sensitivy and context to our reporting on Tragedy and Trauma. We are also reaching out to journalists who have been affected by trauma. Our latest efforts have been to reach out to journalists in Finland who recently covered the deadly school shootings there. I'll be spending the weekend talking about these important issues as the Dart Society gathers in Baltimore. I can't wait.