Article content 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. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or TAIT: Chris Zdeb brought a combination of decisiveness and compassion to the newsroom Back to video 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.