ABSTRACT

This chapter offers John Sharify's encouragement and wisdom about the path to being a reporter, a broadcaster, an editor or a media professional. On the one-year anniversary of Seattle's Mardi Gras riots, Sharify's story about Kris Kime aired on KOMO-TV in Seattle. In the report, Sharify said 'Kris was a hero for what he did that night, and what he continues to do one year later'. It featured the people grateful for Kris' gifts of life; the man breathing Kris' lungs, the woman with Kris' left kidney, the man with his right kidney, the woman with Kris' pancreas and the man with Kris' heart, Larry Levinson. LifeCenter Northwest was flooded with calls from viewers asking how they could become donors too, after watching this story of hope. In fact that's why Sharify do this, to help viewers 'find meaning' in the stories he report. In his attempt to do so, he have found meaning in his own life and work.