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Carson Walker on Muck Rack

Carson Walker

Rapid City, South Dakota
Covers:  I lead a nonprofit news organization that pursues in-depth enterprise and investigative stories about South Dakota.
Doesn't Cover: Issues that lack a strong South Dakota angle.
CEO of @sdnewswatch

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Carson Walker’s Biography

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I grew up in Iowa and worked my first journalism job in my teens as a newspaper carrier for The Des Moines Register. I was a radio announcer and reporter while studying journalism and political science at Colorado State University. I began my career as a reporter, photojournalist, producer and anchor at KDLT-TV in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where I also served as news director after six years as a reporter at the Argus Leader, the local Gannett-owned paper. My experience includes 17 years at Th…

What was your first job as a journalist?

Part-time radio reporter in college

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, an old manual Royal that my freelance writer mom gave me and IBM Selectrics in high school and college.

How is social media changing news?

It delivers news in bits and bites that usually lack the context of history or the full picture of what's going on.