Experience is the emphasis at 29
October 26, 2009 by chrisgraham · Leave a Comment
Story by Chris Graham
Bureau chief is a sexy job title, but being the bureau chief means you end up doing things like spending the morning at a middle school making sure the station can do live web-streaming of a House of Delegates debate scheduled for the next night.
WVIR-NBC29 veteran Ken Slack eventually got around to doing some reporting work, setting up an interview with Augusta County Board of Supervisors Chairman Larry Howdyshell to discuss county emergency services, and editing an interview with another Board of Supervisors member, Nancy Sorrells, for a report for the news at noon.
Slack is a key member of the NBC29 news team, a fixture at the station since the mid-1990s. Stability is sort of the name of the game at 29, as is the station’s decision to use its newscasts to bridge the Rockfish Gap, so to speak, linking the Valley to Central Virginia. Read more
