Newsman Mark Sudol's hockey from Hartford Whalers started its start

Mark Sudol is a well -known face for those who get their local news on television. Sudol, a reporter of News 12 Connecticut, has received awards for his work in the course of his career in the past 16 years, including an Emmy and a Murrow Award.

“I think the thing I like best is that I keep people up to date and give people the news,” said Sudol recently in an interview with The Sun. “Every new story has a different zing.”

Many of Sudol's stories were reported in Monroe.

Sudol was interested in journalism at a young age. He completed the University of Connecticut with a BA degree in radio journalism and now has three decades of experience in this area.

To be a good journalist, you have to know how to find interesting stories that you can report about. According to Sudol, a variety of things can serve to inform him about possible stories, including special contacts or spectators who may call.

“It's about building relationships with people,” he said.

Sudol noticed that even social media can play a role in providing a story. “It's amazing how it can snowball,” he said about stories from online posts.

Sudol is always sure to pay attention to the latest developments to keep the public up to date, and sometimes there is a breach of messages that can be reported.

“We had noticed that there was a fire on the I-95 and we immediately killed,” he said when he remembered an instance of Breaking messages that took place on May 2, 2024.

Sudol referred to the fiery crash, in which a tractor trailer in the Fairfield Avenue overpass was involved in Norwalk. The News 12 team from News 12 has recorded the film material of the Inferno and the Black Rauch around the truck, as well as spectators, which video on their cell phones are picking up nearby.

The cameras of News 12 also conquered emergency vehicles that reacted to the scene with sirens and firefighters who fought against the flames of the petrol fire.

Her report also expected the audience on the effects on traffic and as authorities to reopen this section of the highway.

While a quick reaction made Sudol's broadcaster possible to be able to bring her viewers live, Sudol said that it was important not to sacrifice the accuracy for the first when she reports about a story.

In the national elections, for example, Sudol said that he receives information from reliable sources such as CNN or Associated Press. “You don't want to jump the gun and look stupid,” he said.

start

Sudol said early on, he knew that he had enjoyed it. In college he was part of a radio show, served as the Hartford Whalers correspondent, a professional hockey team that once played in Connecticut, and wrote for Uconn's newspaper, The Daily Campus.

“There was a time when I had three to four jobs,” he said as a reporter about his early days.

He worked, produced and wrote a lot for a while before finally working with News 12 as a freelancer and was then fully hired. Sudol leads a large part of his success as a reporter at his time in a radio show in college, which helped him describe things exactly and in detail.

Sudol said that there are currently many opportunities for careers in journalism. He advises everyone who is interested in looking for internships and opportunities to find out what it is like to work on site.

“The biggest is to get your foot in the door,” he said.

Favorite stories

Sudol has several favorite stories, but there are two that protrude the most. One is a story about MMA fighter Nick “Notorious” Newell, who was born with a congenital amputation of his left arm, which ends directly under his elbow.

The fighter has a short but muscular stump of a forearm with which he learned objects at a young age. Sudol said that some other fighters had easily taken Newell due to his appearance in his career at the beginning of his career.

“He didn't play around,” Sudol recalled at one of Newell's playing. “He won the fight in less than two minutes.”

This story won Sudol his first Emmy.

The other story was a Sudol about Wynston Browne, a teenager from Westport with an unspeakable autism and apraxia, a neurological disorder that influences the ability to plan and carry out targeted movements, e.g. B. speaking, waving or making facial expressions.

Sudol reported how Brownne had learned to use a keyboard to communicate, which consequently changed his life.

According to Sudol, Browne was then able to work for himself at a school council meeting, and everyone finally became aware of his remarkable intelligence.

“It was a really emotional story, the fact that his family agreed to do this with us is incredible,” recalled Sudol.

Sudol's story won a Murrow award that was named after the legendary Newsman Edward R. Murrow.

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