News Director at News 8 Austin in Austin, Texas since April, 1999. Assistant News Director at KTBC, Austin Photojournalist at KTBC-TV, Austin; WRAL-TV, Raleigh; KTRK-TV and KPRC-TV, Houston. Winner of two National Sigma Delta Chi awards, the National Edward R. Murrow award, two National Walter Cronkite awards for excellence in Political Journalism, and a finalist for the 2002 DuPont-Columbia Award. Carole Kneeland Project Fellow and Board member. RTNDF workshop facilitator on journalism ethics, crime coverage, newsroom culture, and leadership. Chairman of the Texas Associated Press Broadcaster�s board of directors 2005-2006