Word: corporon
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...begins with a built-in advantage: it can afford to budget some $400,000 a year for TV news coverage. And most of WDSU's 18 reporters have had experience in other kinds of journalism-an unusual state of affairs in any TV news department. News Director John Corporon, 37, who served as U.P.I, bureau chief in New Orleans, has a wire-service fascination with fastbreaking stories plus a balancing lack of hesitance about releasing staffers for months on stories requiring spadework and research...
Cameras with Heat. On spot news stories, few other newsmen in the area move as fast as the reporters from WDSU. When the plane carrying former New Orleans Mayor deLesseps Morrison failed to land on schedule, Corporon wasted not a moment. He chartered a plane, sent out a reporter and cameraman to retrace Morrison's route. WDSU had the only New Orleans reporters at the crash scene and shot the city's only film of the removal of the bodies...
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