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By the time I entered college, I knew I wanted to work in audio journalism. My love of audio was deep and abiding. Working in the news department at the Brown University college radio station was an obvious choice; it gave me the training and practice I needed to become a reporter, along with an official reason to hear and share people's stories. I considered my role as a reporter to be that of a teacher. My reports taught my listeners something about the news of the day.

My college station was a unique commercial rock station run by students. It meant the news department of 95.5 WBRU in Providence, Rhode Island did not cover college campus events. We covered local and national news including murder trials, corruption, and politics. I even had the budget to take a team of reporters to cover both the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1988.

At the heart of all the stories I covered and what I was learning about audio is that hearing people's stories is powerful.