7 Weather Reporting
Marysol Castro is blunt about it: “I’m not a meteorologist,” she says, “I don’t claim to be a meteorologist—I have no desire to become a meteorologist.” But Marysol was the nation’s weather reporter appearing on ABC Network’s morning broadcast Good Morning America and later on the CBS morning news show. When she was first hired at ABC, she had never done weather before. What she knew was television. She’d studied it, worked at small stations, and knew it inside and out. Plus she knew what people want. “Very few people at home know the difference between a low-pressure system and a high-pressure system,” she says. “They want to know: Is it going to be cold? Do I have to put on a down jacket? Is it going to be hot? Do I get ...
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