Videographer. Photographer. Photojournalist. “Hey, Camera Guy!”

I’ve answered to all of these. According to my current employer, my job title is Cameraperson. I work at a television station, I go out to where the news is happening and get the video of that news which runs on your local newscast. You name it, I’ve probably covered it once, except the Final Four. But then again, the NCAA wouldn’t let me (or anyone else not working for CBS) shoot it.



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If I may indulge my inner hipster for just a moment, allow me to say I liked the band Journey before liking Journey became cool. I’m not old enough to say I was there from the very beginning. But long before the Chicago White Sox and the San Francisco Giants made it their anthems to World Series titles, before The Sopranos infamously ended their series with it, before the effervescently annoying kids from Glee remade it, I would rock Don’t Stop Believin’ loud and proud whenever I could.
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The E is what makes it different. The E sets it apart from its older sibling. Some even say the E makes it better. But as advertisements in the St. Louis area like to ask: What does the E stand for?

In 1957, the E stood for essential. As the Illinois communities east of St. Louis – locally referred to as the “Metro East” – began to grow in the post-World War II boom, citizens and businesses demanded a viable larger-scale public university in the area. Southern Illinois University, located almost 100 miles away in Carbondale, stepped in to fill the void with extension schools in East St. Louis and Alton, Illinois. 


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