Photojournalists
Pete Neuswanger
Pete thinks it was predestined he would be in the news business. Reading the afternoon paper was a ritual at his parents' home, as was watching the evening news.
His first job was delivering 40 Milwaukee Journals to his neighborhood, which helped him win the current events quizzes in his social studies class.
Pete transferred to the University of Minnesota Journalism School in 1977 and got a job with WTCN-TV shortly thereafter. In 1980, Pete landed at WCCO-TV.
Twenty-six years later, he's scratching his head, wondering where the time went.
One of Pete's favorite stories is when reporter Esme Murphy and he went to Kennebunkport, Maine in 1991 to be with President George H.W. Bush during the attempted coup against Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
While in Kennebunkport, WCCO-TV asked Pete and Esme to do a story about what it was like to be in the small vacation town where the president "vacated" every summer.
Another of his favorite stories was when Pat Kessler and he flew to Tokyo while covering Gov. Jesse Ventura and his trade mission to Japan. Pete remembers the four Ventura years as "wild".
Here are a few of Pete's favorite stories he helped create:
Dimension: 'With The President' In Kennebunkport
Gov. Ventura Goes To Japan
Timberwolves Hold Court In Japan
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