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Bob Richardson: July 2008 Archives


Strange Story on a Slow Summer Sunday Hits #1

2:34 PM Mon, Jul 28, 2008 |
Bob Richardson

Bob3-Small.jpgWhen you work in a news organization, you never know what type of stories people will ask you to cover. We get hundreds of e-mails, faxes, letters and phone calls each day alerting us to stories. We sincerely appreciate...



Presidents and Schedules

1:28 PM Fri, Jul 18, 2008 |
Bob Richardson

Bob3-Small.jpgThanks for reading our blog. I'm the Managing Editor for Fox 11 News. Very behind the scenes-type guy.

In my career, I've had the opportunity to cover visits by several differe...



Presidents and Tucson

3:46 PM Wed, Jul 16, 2008 |
Bob Richardson

Bob3-Small.jpgWith news that President Bush will overnight in Tucson this week, we decided to see if we could find out how often that has happened in history.

I made a few cursory phone calls to some friends who have been aroun...



Covering the Media

7:01 PM Mon, Jul 14, 2008 |
Bob Richardson

Bob3-Small.jpgThose of us who work in the news media are used to covering other people -- politicians, events or any number of other people or things which either welcome our coverage or don't. It gets a bit more interesting when a me...



A New Member of the Fox 11 News Family

2:36 PM Tue, Jul 08, 2008 |
Bob Richardson

Devin Neeley is joining the Fox 11 News family on Wednesday. Devin is a graduate of New Mexico State University. He's from Farmington, New Mexico.

Even though Devin is just out of college, he has extensive news-gathering experience. NMSU operates the PBS affiliate in Las Cruces and produces a daily half-hour news broadcast each night. Devin has learned his skills in the trenches covering news on a daily basis there.

We look...



Happy Fourth!

1:33 PM Fri, Jul 04, 2008 |
Bob Richardson

As our nation pauses to celebrate its 232nd birthday, the news business goes on.

Deanna Morgan and photojournalist Ruben Fuentes are spending the day in Sierra Vista. Arguably the most "military" of Southern Arizona cities, we see how they honor the nation. Governor Janet Napolitano was there today as well.

We've asked our "do it all" guy, Phil Anaya, to go out and report on how Tucsonans are celebrating and enjoying the Fo...