'Inside Edition' Hires First Transgender Television Reporter
By Alicia Banks, The Wrap
Feb 2, 2015
http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/%e2%80%98inside-edition%e2%80%99-hires-first-transgender-television-reporter/ar-AA8UtBT (http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/%e2%80%98inside-edition%e2%80%99-hires-first-transgender-television-reporter/ar-AA8UtBT)
Zoey Tur has joined "Inside Edition" as the nation's first transgender television reporter during February.
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"We are thrilled to have Zoey join 'Inside Edition' as Special Correspondent and make some TV history," said the magazine show's executive producer, Charles Lachman, in a statement.
Quote from: traci_k on February 03, 2015, 09:34:18 AM
Just came across this
Zoey Tur has joined "Inside Edition" as the nation's first transgender television reporter during February
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Interestingly, her "bitter rival" in the race to be the first helicopter pilot-news reporter to reach the famous white Bronco...also transitioned; they are now friends (google, Dana Vahle Zoey Tur).
Quote from: frances_larina on February 05, 2015, 12:24:35 AM
Interestingly, her "bitter rival" in the race to be the first helicopter pilot-news reporter to reach the famous white Bronco...also transitioned; they are now friends (google, Dana Vahle Zoey Tur).
No sh*t? OMG that's amazing.
Oddly enough, at the time of that incident my car was an identical White Ford Bronco. I never heard the end of it.
Years later I was taking a studio recording class with a guy who needed a ride home because of the rain, so I offered him a ride in said Bronco. He started to freak out when he saw my car. Turns out he was OJ's cousin... His name really was Simpson.
Zoey use to be a member.
She and I had a long skype talk when she joined as she was fearful of ever passing, she sent me her pics!
She turned into a lovely lady.
Good luck to her.
A Forum Graduate!!
Quote from: Cindy on February 05, 2015, 12:44:34 AM
Zoey use to be a member.
She and I had a long skype talk when she joined as she was fearful of ever passing, she sent me her pics!
She turned into a lovely lady.
Good luck to her.
A Forum Graduate!!
Good on her! As a student pilot who is transitioning I think it's really brilliant!
Trans woman named 'Inside Edition' correspondent
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/02/09/zoey-tur-named-inside-edition-correspondent/
February 9, 2015 | by Michael K. Lavers
On the afternoon of June 17, 1994, Zoey Tur received reports that O.J. Simpson was in the vicinity of the grave of his ex-wife whom Los Angeles prosecutors had accused him of stabbing to death five days earlier.
Tur — a groundbreaking Los Angeles helicopter pilot who was known as Chopper Bob at the time — told the Washington Blade during an interview last week that she and her crew "spotted" Simpson about "a mile away" from the El Toro "Y," a freeway interchange in Orange County, Calif. Tur proceeded to exclusively broadcast the first 22 minutes of a slow-speed police pursuit of Simpson's white Ford Bronco that television stations across the country carried live.
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She covered the OJ Simpson arrest and is a prominent figure in the LGBT community.
This is absolutely fantastic. SO MUCH EXPOSURE. yesssss
It's wonderful to see more women pilots too! As a guy who's worked in the aviation industry, it's really not as common to see women who take a strong interest in fixed or rotary wing craft. :)