Got Your Back

Five more joined the ranks of the Time Warner Cable's new 24 hour news channel in the final week of February. And in this age of the backpack journalist, some of ours arrived with plenty of backpacking experience

Allison Minto has already backpacked through some of Buffalo's most at-risk neighborhoods to give citizens not used to having a voice the opportunity to explain why things are the way they are where they live.

Another arrived after backpacking up Mount Sinai to see the sun rise. Anchor Jen Markham considered it more of a vacation because.. well.. it was. She returned from Egypt and started a day later in our newsroom.



Still another, Jason Torreano, can tell you stories of his backpacking experience working with children in sub-Africa. that was before he worked as an anchor and reporter in Bismarck, North Dakota.

And with Doug Ruffin, Nicki Mayo, Samantha Lordi and Kassata Edwards, they doubled our staff in a single day. The final members of the news channel in Buffalo arrive in the next week.

We're set for a vigorous three-week crash course in a Dalet newsroom system that will help us get on the air before the end of March. The system delivers A-Z, from assignment to archive, CG to ENG, edit to air. When we're working on delivering the news, it has our back.

As we set the foundation for our news organization; from the completion of the primary anchor set to the gathering of news stories to be aired when we hit the ground running, we are hearing from a lot of folks excited about our arrival.

The intensity of this new endeavor will pick up exponentially in the coming weeks.

Can't wait.