National Murrow winner. Five-time regional Murrow and Emmy winner. Co-managing editor of Good Morning Colorado. And my family is Amish. Now I'm building the tools and the playbook nobody handed me on day one — for the newsrooms hiring and the reporters getting started.
I've been on TV since it was still cool to wear a popped collar — sometimes two. Seventeen years and a stack of hardware later, I'm still chasing the same thing: stories that matter.
It took grit, perseverance, and more patience than I'd like to admit. Now I'm ready to help you skip a few of my mistakes. Let's build something special, together.
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