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Jack Beavers

  • Freelance Journalist and Contributor, NewsBreak
Dallas
Covers:  Texas/U.S. Southwestern Border Issues; Texas Politics; South Texas Border Culture & History
Editor-in-Chief @ us border news. com - contributor to newsbreak . com - Emmy-awarded reporter covering US Southern Border news & culture.

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Present: Editor, USBorderNews.com & Contributor, Newsbreak.com Past: National Field Producer @ USA Today (Television). Supervising Producer of nationally distributed news magazines by Paramount Television. Managing Editor @ WFAA-TV (Dallas), KHOU-TV (Houston), KXTV (Sacramento). Producer/News Manager in Newsrooms in Chicago, Washington, DC & Seattle. Emmy Awards for News Program Production and Historical/Cultural Stories.

What was your first job as a journalist?

I was hired as a part-time writer for a local TV station while studying journalism at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. I thought I was badass when I moved from a manual typewriter to an IBM Selectric!

Who do you wish followed you?

Elon Musk

Awards

Emmy - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

1991 - Outstanding Achievement - Special/Series (The West # 241)

Outstanding Special/Series: "The West # 241" - Investigative News Magazine that regularly broke news about under-reported issues affecting states west of the Mississippi River distributed by Paramount Television & produced by Kelly News & Entertainment (KCRA/Sacramento)

Emmy - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

1992 - Artistic/Historical/Cultural/Religious - Single Story

"Charles Moore" (Profile of Charles Lee Moore - American photographer known for his photographs documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Jack Beavers & Robert Neustadt co-producers (via KCRA-TV Sacramento)