Producer Sharon Bender came through the Washington program at the beginning of the Clinton administration. Bender has a history of doing favors for Medill reporters, usually supplying dubs of tapes we were not able to shoot ourselves. This quarter she even volunteered to run the audio board on the first taping of the Journal. Photo Journalist Jonathan Drum began as an intern photographer at Medill and was quickly promoted to Director of photographic services in 1995. Drum and his colleague, Rob Michaud, now take care of all the technical details in the control room and on the set.
Nothing escapes their attention to detail from lighting levels to drinks for the talent.
Again, many thanks to our firends at Belo.