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Article: DAY OR NIGHT, TV NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER IS ALWAYS READY TO ROLL 'EM.(REAL LIFE)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 1996
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Byline: WENDY GROSSMAN, STAFF WRITER
AT 10 A.M., sitting at the producer's desk in the newsroom at WAVY-TV, Pat Dowd hunts for each key as he types in the notes he took on a court case he photographed an hour ago.
Cameras are rolling 30 feet away. Doors open. Phones ring.
Dowd, 46, has been a news photographer (he doesn't like to be called a cameraman) for WAVY since 1976.
But he's been in TV longer than that. He put himself through college working as an engineer at the New York TV station where his father worked.
``My father was a cameraman at the Mets games and before that, Dodger games in Brooklyn,'' he says later.
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