Kevin Roy
Palm Springs California
Dog lover, tennis player, TV News Anchor, 5 stations, #1.
Always.
Ready and looking for similar work.
Available now, FT, PT, Freelance, on air, no contract, armed with enterprising, exclusive stories proven to attract viewers.
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News Directors, please call me. It will be worth your time. 708.821.4670.
6 Emmys: 🔹Best Investigative Report, KGW-TV8, NBC, Portland, OR.
🔹Best Reporter, WLS-TV/ABC7 Chicago. 🔹Hard News Series, "A Son of Suicide," WLS-TV/ABC7 Chicago. 🔹News Writing, WLS-TV.
🔹Hard News Series, "AIDS in Africa: The Lost Generation," WLS-TV. 🔹Original Local Program & Host, "Surviving Suicide," WLS-TV.
"A Son of Suicide" also won honors from: 🔹IL Broadcasters Assoc., Silver Dome..
🔹 Mental Health America of IL, 1st Place, local Media Contest.
🔹1st, Mental Health America’s National Media Contest. 🔹 Fr. Charles Rubey Obelisk Award, LOSS, Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide, Catholic Charities of Chicago.
🔹Fellow, Carter Center's Mental Health Journalism Program. Founded by First Lady Rosalynn Carter, my project was a unique, program, “Surviving Suicide.”
🔹Inducted into Oak Park & River Forest High School's Wall of Fame which includes Author Ernest Hemingway and Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald’s.
🔹Summa Cum Laude, #1 in my class at The University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism School, Broadcast Sequence, 3.98/4.00 GPA.
🔹Interviewed Oprah Winfrey 7 months before the national debut of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Watch this fascinating interview @ KevinRoyReports.com, my professional website featuring stories and demon reels from my 25-years in TV.
I’m back in my hometown of Chicago currently looking for work in TV and/or Radio. Willing to relocate.
I would greatly appreciate your help.
http://www.KevinRoyReports.com.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kevin Roy
708.821.4670