ABSTRACT
This chapter offers Daniel Salazar's encouragement and wisdom about the path to being a reporter, a broadcaster, an editor or a media professional. One of Salazar's favorite pieces of writing is an essay by French existentialist Albert Camus called 'The Myth of Sisyphus'. Salazar covers local government at his current job. That's always the type of journalism that's interested him. He was a debate nerd in high school, so he was interested in politics and policy long before he ever took a journalism class. His goal is to provide a fair, open public forum for ideas. After Salazar covered a particularly long government meeting where the egos and partisanship were on full display, his colleagues in Wichita approached him and gave him a compliment to his work. Without the reporter at the local government meeting, there is a less informed public and, in all likelihood, more corruption and abuse of power.
