AIR CHECK BY DIANA MARSZALEK
KARE’s Eckert Wants Local News With Impact
Steve Eckert, a veteran TV newsman with stations and NBC news, was given the task of building an investigative unit at Gannett’s NBC affiliate in Minneapolis-St. Paul. He’s adding staff and equipment as part of a plan that involves more than rooting out the corruption, flawed systems and stupidity on which journalists thrive. He wants KARE to produce stories so compelling that they “make viewers feel the same exhilaration that I felt when I found that smoking-gun document in the dusty basement of the courthouse.”
