My next moves would have been to LA, San Francisco or New York City and I really did not want to try to raise a family in those cities. Sort of the Goldilocks town, not too big but not too small, just right. I found Sacramento to be a great town with perfect weather and a great place to raise a family. When the show was canceled, I moved into the news department. KOVR (then the ABC station) hired me to anchor and produce a noon news and talk show. Suddenly out of a job for the first time, I started sending out tapes and visiting stations. KSEE (NBC) in Fresno hired me and I anchored there for nearly three years or until the station was sold and new owners came in and cleaned house.

After nearly two years, I decided that Michigan was way too cold for my taste and I started sending tapes to stations across California. From there I went to Lansing Michigan as News Director and anchor at WJIM another CBS affiliate. Just as I was graduating I was offered a job at the CBS station in Colorado Springs, KKTV 11. I again was working on campus news productions as an anchor from which I put together a good audition tape to send out. Q: How did you make your way from those early jobs into a news anchor spot on KOVR?Ī: I transferred to The University of Texas where I got my BS with Honors, in Radio, Television and Film. I was getting to meet and talk with people, one on one, and that's something very few folks get to do. Werner Von Braun and a host of politicians. My first big interviews were musician Muddy Waters, rocket scientist Dr. Covering news events was much more exciting and I thrived on deadlines. As a DJ, I quickly learned that spinning records was rather boring. Q: You were a reporter earlier in your career, most recently at CBS in Sacramento, is that right? What first drew you to reporting?Ī: My career started in 1971 at Texas Tech University where I started in radio. The interview has been edited for space and clarity. The second part will run later this week. The first part of the interview is below. I asked him a few questions via email last week, and here's what he had to say. Wood already has shown himself to be responsive, polite and eager to engage with the media.

(She told me once that my questions were 'shrill,' and she was right.)Īfter Cohen retired, the board hired veteran broadcast journalist Dan Wood to take the spot. She was always quick to respond no matter the time of day or night, unfailingly polite no matter how rude the questions being thrown at her, and not afraid to challenge a reporter's presumptions. For most of my journalism career, the PIO has been held by one person, Candis Cohen. The person holding the umbrella is the PIO. When the board lets a doctor continue to practice who goes on to kill a patient, hellfire rains down. When the board makes the right call, nobody notices. The decisions the board makes can have life or death consequences for patients. The board is one of the most important public agencies in the state, perhaps the entire country, because of the sheer volume of medical professionals it oversees. The hardest job is serving as the state medical board's public information officer. It's not wearing the Los Angeles police chief badge. The hardest job in California government is not serving as governor.

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