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radio newscasters  

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  • When news breaks, many hear it first on radio. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers learned of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, when WCBS AM traffic reporter Tom Kaminski, on what had been a routine helicopter flight, described what he'd just seen as he flew near the twin towers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Journalism; Newscasters, Radio]

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