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Broadcasting & Cable, October, 2003 by Eggerton, John
BROADCAST NEWS WRC-TV WASHINGTON Vickie Burns TITLE: Vice president of news/news director, WRC-TV Washington BORN: Sept. 17, 1959, Chicago EDUCATION: BA, communications, Loyola University CAREER BUILDER: An internship in the public affairs department at CBS-owned WBBM-TV Chicago: "We did not go get coffee or pick up dry cleaning.
It was: Think about show topics, research them, find guests and create a package of content every week." Vickie Burns is the newly minted news director and VP of news for NBC's WRC-TV Washington, the No. 8 DMA but arguably the No. I news market for nation-and world-shaping events, or, as she puts it, "the local news market of the leader of the free world." But Burns also recognizes that it is...
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