Producers
Throughout his career, Jacobson employed many producers who went on to have successful journalism or media careers in their own right. These include:
- Joe Kolina (now senior executive producer at WMAQ-TV)
- Joseph Novak
- Michael Radutzky (later became producer for Ed Bradley at 60 Minutes)
- John Rooney
- Kevin McGee
- John Eisendrath (now a TV show creator)
- Roe Conn (now a highly rated talk show host for Chicago's WLS-AM)
- Jim Edwards (now a radio host using the pseudonym Jake Hartford)
- Michael Harvey (now a documentary producer who has worked for the production company owned by Bill Kurtis)
- Phil Hayes (later an on-air reporter at WFLD-TV)
- Jason Kravarik (now a TV news reporter)
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Famous quotes containing the word producers:
“When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)