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My job is so cool. For as long as I can remember, I've enjoyed telling people about the news. My first vivid memory of this is when I found out Lyndon Johnson wasn't running for re-election. This was back when there was a Buffalo Evening News and it was delivered to our door. Anyway, I remember getting the paper, reading the story and running to the kitchen where my Mom was cooking dinner to tell her that President Johnson wasn't running. I was 7. 40 years later (yeah, I'm admitting it) my actual job is what I've wanted to do, and have been doing, since I was a kid -- gathering news and telling people about it. On Friday after I finished talking to Scott Hamilton about the "Capitol Fourth" on PBS, I started thinking about all the people I've interviewed this year for The LiveLine and Weekend Wrap, who have also been on the "Today" show and "Good Morning America" and "The Late Show" and "Oprah" and ... Well, yo...

02/22/08 - Chris Hansen to Speak at UPB Graduation Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Chris Hansen, best known for his work on NBC’s “To Catch a Predator,” will speak to the graduating class of 2008 at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Hansen will deliver the keynote address during commencement exercises at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 27, in the Pitt-Bradford Sport and Fitness Center arena. In 2004, Hansen began his breakthrough investigative reporting on online sexual predators and has exposed more than 250 men who target teenagers over the Internet. He has received two Emmy Awards for his 2004 report on child sex trafficking in Cambodia. His spot news coverage of major events has included the Columbine (Colo.) school shooting in 1999, TWA Flight 800 disaster off the coast of New York in 1996 and the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in the spring of 1995. Hansen and his wife, Mary Joan, live in Connecticut with their two sons. 02/22/08 - KASD Denies Charter Schoo...