Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Try to follow the career path on this one.
Anne Herbst studied journalism in college with the intentions of being a newspaper reporter.
Her professor said she was better at shooting video, so she became a staff photographer at a TV station.
She got hired as a staff photographer at KUSA-TV in Denver — one of the top shops in the country for video journalism — but gradually began writing her own stories … to which reporters would then put their voices.
She left KUSA to become a solo video journalist at the Denver Post. If you’re scoring at home, Herbst went from a TV station to a newspaper and went from being a traditional photographer to doing everything herself.
This past year, she returned to TV as the assistant chief photographer at KDVR-TV, Denver’s FOX affiliate.
Herbst is a hallmark of developing numerous skills and leveraging one’s talent to find high-quality positions in the field of journalism. She has charted her own course in many ways, always finding ways to progress and improve.
Oh, and it helps that Herbst is really, really good at her job.
She has twice been named NPPA Photographer of the Year for the West region — always the most competitive in the country. She has won numerous NPPA awards as a solo video journalist, as well. Watch some of her work, and you will see why.