What important lessons did you glean from starting off in a smaller market before moving into the big time and how did it prepare you?
I think it was just a growth process. By the time I left Bryan, I’d had a chance to cover small town, local stories, so I had an opportunity to see how these stories impact someone’s life. On a national scale, obviously we’re playing to a broader audience, even though they say all stories are local. But there was something special about local news, especially in a smaller market where you got to know the individuals of that town. It’s a small town, so I could go to the gas station and everyone would have a story idea. Not that I go unrecognized now — people call all the time with story ideas — but if I look back at it in a nostalgic way, there was something special about covering news in a smaller community.

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In an interview on Wednesday in Colorado, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney grew frustrated with KCNC reporter Shaun Boyd when she asked him a viewer’s question about medical marijuana (after she had pressed him on the issue of same-sex marriage).

Romney was still talking about the incident on Thursday and, on Friday afternoon, it was at the center of an on-air argument between MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall and Washington Examiner columnist Tim Carney (video above). continued…

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Riddell, who served as WNBC’s education reporter and Sunday evening anchor before being let go by the station in early 2009, married John Partilla, an advertising executive, in November and recently celebrated the union with a small ceremony at New York’s Mandarin Oriental hotel.  The New York Times covered the marriage in its regular Sunday “Vows” section.  What makes the NYT piece on Riddell’s marriage unique is that it tells the story of how she and Partilla broke up their respective marriages to be together.

As one commenter pointed out on the NYT website, “The notions of ‘Vows’ has a deliciously ironic depth of meaning here–the ones they made, but the ones they felt less compelled to honor.” continued…

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