Ponca City native and University of Oklahoma graduate Mike Boettcher has spent more than thirty years as a news correspondent for CNN, ABC and NBC. During that time he has reported on some of the biggest stories in the world, winning national Emmy and Peabody Awards.

After returning from covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Boettcher taught journalism students at his alma mater as a visiting professor. He also discussed his career in journalism with Dick Pryor for the new OETA production, Mike Boettcher On the Record.

Boettcher talks about his coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the early days of Cable News Network and his life as an international reporter in Mike Boettcher On the Record, debuting September 6 at 6:30 p.m. on OETA.

On September 1st, Mike Boettcher was scheduled to begin a year-long reporting assignment with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan.

In a broadcast news career spanning four decades, Marvin Kalb has distinguished himself as one of the leading journalists in America. Hired at CBS News by the legendary Edward R. Murrow, Kalb has served as chief diplomatic correspondent for CBS News and NBC News and as moderator of Meet the Press. For the past 16 years he has hosted The Kalb Report, which is distributed by OETA and American Public Television.

In an intimate discussion with host Dick Pryor, Kalb discussed challenges of modern journalism, the future of newspapers, the rise of opinion programs, Edward R. Murrow and The Kalb Report.

My 23 hours with Marvin Kalb began on October 28, 2009, over dinner at the Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City. With friends from FOI Oklahoma, Inc. and the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation (underwriters of The Kalb Report), we talked about Oklahoma and Mr. Kalb's remarkable career in journalism. He told us about his days as a correspondent in the Soviet Union, CBS News, and his second career as a journalism professor. He formed his words carefully and spoke with the authority that more than 30 years in broadcasting conveys. After a couple of hours we called it an evening, in part so the Bronx native could get to his room to catch the World Series game between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies.