University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 25, 1987
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Wendall Anschutz to receive KU citation for excellence
By CAROLINE REDDICK
Staff writer
From the time Wendall Anschutz put out his own newspaper in the sixth grade, he knew he wanted to be a journalist.
Darcy Chang/KANSAN
Wendell Anschutz, anchor for KCTV-5 in Kansas City, Mo., speaks about his childhood goal of becoming a journalist. Anschutz met with students at KU yesterday and will be honored today by the William Allen White School of Journalism.
Anschutz, news anchor for KCTV 5 in Kansas City, Mn., will receive the Radio-TV Alumni Honor Citation from the William Allen White School of Journalism at 1:30 p.m. today in 3140 Wescoe Hall.
The citation is given annually to KU graduates in broadcasting who have been outstanding in their field.
Anschutz said he became interested in news writing after his father bought him a typewriter in the third grade. When he was published his own paper,
Anschutz has bachelor's and master's degrees in radio-television-film from the University of Kansas. He has worked for KCTV-5 for 20 years and has anchored the evening news-bests for 10 years.
"Without a printer, I could only make one copy. So I rented it to my parents and a few other people for a nickel. They'd read it and give it back.
In 1972, he was named Broadcaster of the Year by the Kansas City Radio and Television Council. He has been chosen Kansas City's reporter of the year twice by the American Women in Radio and Television.
"I think it was good experience. My mom would point out all my spelling errors."
"This is my ultimate job," Anschutz said, explaining why he liked working in Kansas City.
Anschutz has written and narrated 13 documentaries for KCTV-5. His award-winning feature, "Place to Place," has been produced as an ongoing series for ten years.
"I've seen a lot of people working here and then moving on, living out of suitcases, living on a treadmill. Some do it for 20 or 25 years. They've been around forever, on the road."
Anschutz said he would like to do more field reporting but didn't have much time after doing three newscasts a day.
"It's a beautiful film," Linton said. "It still stands up today and that was more than twenty years ago, when farm problems weren't in the news that much.
Bruce Linton, professor of journal
ism and member of the award committee, supervised Anschutz's graduate thesis, a documentary film on rural changes in America. It was named best student film of 1967.
"He's more than an anchor. He's a fine reporter. He projects integrity and sincerity and it's not fake — that's the way he is."
"I think we've got depth now, probably more than newspapers in some areas. We can show an event actually appening. Another thing is we've got immediacy, we don't have to wait to go to press."
"TV newsroom staffs don't even approach the size of newspaper staffs," he said. "When a really big news story hits, we just don't have the manpower to cover all the angles.
Max Utsler, chairman of the radio-television sequence, was on the committee that chose Anschutz as the citation recipient.
But, he said, "There's a problem with daily coverage because we try to cover too much ground in too little time with too little staff."
"TV journalism has grown a great deal in the last 20 years. When I started in the business, we were basically ambulance chasers, covering murders and fires.
"Once he was nominated, the decision was pretty much by acclamation — we didn't have to take a vote." Utsler said.
On the Record
- Two students' bicycles were taken during spring break, KU police reported. One a 12-speed bicycle valued at $249.65, was taken from the west side of Murphy Hall. The other, a terrain bicycle valued at $755, was taken from the bicycle rack at Templin Hall.
An unidentified man in an auto-
mobile exposed himself to two female KU students at 4:45 p.m. Monday in the drive circle of Jayhawk Towers, KU police reported.
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