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Episode Synopsis
Challenging. Adrenaline-pumping. Riveting. Exhausting.
These words barely begin to describe working at a local TV station during a story so large it compels round-the-clock coverage.
We experienced it in Atlanta last winter during "Snowmageddon", where a few inches of snow-turned-ice led to massive back-ups on the highways and left people stuck in their cars for hours.
Local TV journalists in Buffalo went through it last month, when the region was pelted with a different kind of snowstorm.
A seven-foot kind of snowstorm.
The historic snowfall -- even by Buffalo standards -- created massive issues across the region, and its NBC affiliate, WGRZ-TV, replaced its regular programming with non-stop news coverage. Anchors, reporters, producers, photographers, and staffers across the board worked extra-long shifts -- outdoors, too, for the crews in the field.
Situations like these often stretch a newsroom to its thinnest.
In this case, half of the WGRZ newsroom was not there.
So says longtime reporter Claudine Ewing: "Anybody who lived in the Southtowns could not get in; they just could not get out of their homes. One of our photographers live in Hamburg, and the snow was so high, he couldn't open the door."
Ewing is my guest on this episode of the Telling The Story podcast. →
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These words barely begin to describe working at a local TV station during a story so large it compels round-the-clock coverage.
We experienced it in Atlanta last winter during "Snowmageddon", where a few inches of snow-turned-ice led to massive back-ups on the highways and left people stuck in their cars for hours.
Local TV journalists in Buffalo went through it last month, when the region was pelted with a different kind of snowstorm.
A seven-foot kind of snowstorm.
The historic snowfall -- even by Buffalo standards -- created massive issues across the region, and its NBC affiliate, WGRZ-TV, replaced its regular programming with non-stop news coverage. Anchors, reporters, producers, photographers, and staffers across the board worked extra-long shifts -- outdoors, too, for the crews in the field.
Situations like these often stretch a newsroom to its thinnest.
In this case, half of the WGRZ newsroom was not there.
So says longtime reporter Claudine Ewing: "Anybody who lived in the Southtowns could not get in; they just could not get out of their homes. One of our photographers live in Hamburg, and the snow was so high, he couldn't open the door."
Ewing is my guest on this episode of the Telling The Story podcast. →
The post PODCAST EPISODE #23: Claudine Ewing, reporter, WGRZ-TV appeared first on Telling The Story.
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