Tom Watson, a hall of fame broadcast reporter whose career included decades as a broadcast editor for The Associated Press in Kentucky, has died.
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Watson's baritone voice and sharp wit were fixtures in the AP's Louisville bureau, where he wrote broadcast reports and cultivated strong connections with reporters at radio and TV stations spanning the state. His coverage ranged from compiling lists of weather-related school closings to filing urgent reports on big, breaking stories in his home state, maintaining a calm, steady demeanor regardless of the story.
Watson led news departments at WAKY in Louisville and at a radio station in St. Louis before starting his decades-long AP career. Under his leadership, a special national AP award went to WAKY for contributing 1,000 stories used on the wire in one year, his hall of fame biography said. Watson and his WAKY team also received a National Headliner Award for coverage of a chemical plant explosion, it said.
“Tom was an old-school state broadcast editor who produced a comprehensive state broadcast report that members wanted,” said Adam Yeomans, regional director-South for the AP, who as a bureau chief worked with Watson from 2006 to 2009. “He kept AP ahead on many breaking stories.”
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