Lynn French
< lefrench@interpath.com >
Photojournalist
WRAL-TV Raleigh, North Carolina

"I am in North Carolina!"

That realization hits me at the strangest times, like when I see a fire engine with "Raleigh" on the ladder. I am a photographer at WRAL-TV/WRAZ-TV in Raleigh. Presently I work nightside, which is the 2:30 to 11:30 shift and my stories run in the 10 o'clock news on our FOX newscast and 11 pm on the CBS affiliate news.

I primarily shoot and edit news stories, but I also write and run a live truck when needed. I moved to Raleigh in October 1998. Before that I spent three decades in New Mexico. I am a graduate of Eastern New Mexico University with a BA in Radio/TV Broadcasting.

I started on my Master's at New Mexico State and hope to finish it in North Carolina. Previously I was at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque as a photographer, editor and one-man-band reporter, KVIA-TV in El Paso, TX as weekend assignment editor and KENW-TV in Portales, NM in production and engineering. I also did some time in radio news and cable advertising. Besides watching way too much TV and spending too much time on the computer, I enjoy gourmet cooking, mountain biking, studying history, traveling and sewing.

Eventually I would like to teach broadcast journalism at the university level and embark on a political career in state or local government.

 

Lynn French
< lefrench@interpath.com >
Photojournalist
WRAL-TV Raleigh, North Carolina
Other journals by Lynn French
357 April 1, 2000 Hard Blue Filter One
344 February 14 , 2000 Stories That Remain Untold
304 July 19, 1999 TV news is like living in New York City, every day is either the greatest or worst day of your life, there is no in between
295 July 6, 1999 Ahh the smell of it
279 May 8, 1999 Slump
252 March 19 1999 Tell Me A Story...
251 March 17, 1999 I often question if my inner world is bigger than my outer world
244 March 10, 1999 Dean Dome Doom and Chocolate City Redemption
226 February 14, 1999 I Miss My Dad
221 February 11, 1999 On The Cutting Edge and Teetering
205

January 26, 1999
Moonshine and Cow Boogers
199 January 8, 1999 There are days in the news business when you could not show up for work and no one would notice except for your empty parking space, which they would park in and not tell anyone.
197 January 7, 1999 Hello 1999
189 December 20, 1998 Photographers get sick. We shoot in 100 degree heat, then the reporter blasts the air conditioner in the car. We shoot in driving snow and wind until we can't feel our lower half then sit in a sweltering edit bay for a few hours. We forget to eat dinner because we needed to finish editing a story. We put our bodies through a lot of extremes all while lugging around 50 to 80 pounds of gear. And we love it, but our bodies fight back.
184 December 7, 1998 Looking Through My Viewfinder At a Covergirl
181 November 30, 1998 Okay, it does not rhyme, we are in North Carolina and it is 70 degrees, there is no snow. But one of the longest standing Christmas traditions for me is the post Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas shopping stories. You have seen them hundreds of them through the years. They all fall along three basic story lines: How much are people spending? Shoplifting and mall safety, and what are this year's "hot" gifts?
179 October, 1998 A WHOLE LOTTA I-40 (posted November 26, 1998)
 
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