Anne Ryder interviews Mike Conway
[AI-Generated Summary] Mike Conway’s career in journalism began almost by accident in Terre Haute, Indiana, after he took a high school journalism class to fulfill an English credit. His passion for broadcasting solidified at Indiana University, where he worked extensively at the student radio station WIUS and later at WFIU under the mentorship of influential figures like Dick Yoakam and Margaret Joseph. Conway’s professional trajectory spanned various roles in television news, from interning and reporting in his hometown of Terre Haute to serving as a news director in Traverse City and a producer in Saginaw. A deep commitment to ethical storytelling and the "video storyteller" tradition—learned from mentors such as Larry Hatteberg—eventually led him to transition into academia as a professor and historian. Today, he focuses on chronicling the often-overlooked history of local television and radio news, underscored by a career-long belief that the journalist's primary mission is to distill the complexities of the world for the public.
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