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Task: reintroduce ourselves to classmates and boil the decades down to less than three pages. Lots gets left out.  ________________________________   George Osterkamp For a boy who got a pretty good Quaker upbringing, I have spent an awful lot of time in war zones. I never carried a gun, but in my job as a news producer I've covered stories in some picturesque spots that tourists usually avoid:  Beirut, Mogadishu, Bosnia, Iran and Iraq.  Other places with less violence have

One of my first jobs in journalism was at the top, at The New York Times, but the job was at the bottom: copy boy. The tasks in 1962...

After 30 years at CBS News, the company asked for a short video summary of how I spent that time, including lessons learned, experiences valued and travels remembered. This 2-minute segment has my favorite story covered in 30 years and three things I learned from my colleagues.

Mandela, Dan Rather, producer George Osterkamp (far right), and the CBS News crew in Cape Town, 1994. Photo by a member of our crew, William V. Madison: read his report here : Nelson Mandela The former yearbook staffer (can you tell?) with Mandela, Dan Rather, producer George Osterkamp (far right), and our CBS News crew in Cape Town, 1994. My meeting with Nelson Mandela, one grey morning in Cape Town, consisted of little more than a handshake, after which I fell back to the s

In 1982, I was offered a job with CBS.  I had a great run of producing interesting stories during Dan Rather's last five years anchoring at CBS.  Dan is a wonderful reporter, a guy who loves the news.  I was intimidated at first, but grew fond of him as we worked together in difficult places, from Haiti to Moscow to Sri Lanka and South Africa.  He adds to every story he works on. FACEBOOK Dan Rather   Longtime CBS News producer George Osterkamp  has passed. God rest his so