Rick Sallinger

2022 Illini Media Hall of Fame

19-04-2022 • 16分

Rick Sallinger is a Peabody Award winning broadcast journalist whose fifty-year career has included reporting for CNN, WMAQ-TV in Chicago, and currently CBS 4 in Denver. He’s covered the Columbine High School shooting, the trials of the Oklahoma City bombing perpetrators, and three wars. During his time as Program Director at WPGU, he ushered the station out of the university dorms and onto the airwaves as a competitive commercial FM station, where it began airing commentaries for the first time.

WPGU News correspondent Owen Henderson sits down with Sallinger to discuss his extensive career and WPGU's influence on it.

Read The Daily Illini's profile of Rick Sallinger here.

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