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Respectfully, not everyone has those skills carefully tucked away in their notebooks. It’s a craft many of us in the industry marvel at and learn from.
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To make those decisions with professionalism and a sense of gentleness always keeping in mind the well-being of the reporters and photographers they are assigning the story, is a rare gift.
That’s why Chris Zdeb was so remarkable.
My first memory of meeting Chris was in the summer of 1985, a few months after I became a full-time Edmonton Journal reporter.