Description
Veteran journalist Kathleen McCleery offers tales from the field after 40+ years as a broadcast producer and reporter. Learn what she gleaned when producing interviews with US presidents from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama. Hear about the high-stress yet rewarding environment of a fast-paced newsroom. Find out about the assignments that were the most challenging, the ones that worked, the ones that did not, and the ones that were the most fun.
Kathleen McCleery is an award-winning broadcast journalist who’s worked for PBS and NBC over a four-decade career. Before moving to New Mexico, she was deputy executive producer for the PBS News Hour. From 2014 to 2022, she reported and produced stories for the program on a wide variety of subjects. McCleery taught journalism at her alma mater, Princeton University, from 2016 to 2018, with a focus on media coverage of elections.