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Show RIGHT ON, M By Jo4nn Jacobsen one day to a $50 a pit the next..." "The key to being a : reporter," Barbara said thusiasm-about even ment. People respond"" are excited about what doing." - F i ' ! M r I V if. - p i j j "A female reporter has definite advantages over her male coworkers, co-workers, but she also has one major problem whether to remain a feminine woman, or just get in there and fight!" Barbara Grossman, the knowlege-able knowlege-able and oh-so-highly opinionated opinion-ated KUTV reporter was one of the first women in Salt Lake City to break into that man's mania of television news. "A woman reporter has got to get in and dig as much as men," Barbara emphasized. "She has got to get the story-ask questions, have things explained even if it means forgetting the 'male ego' and pride." Barbara joined the Art Kent-Doug Mitchell ranks on June 8, 1970 after being turned down by The Salt Lake Tribune and KCPX. She was selected for the internship from 14 other applicants-all males. But Barbie couldn't have been happier, and from mini skirts to hot pants, the TV 2 men were fascinated by a woman around the station. After one beginning photography class and three quarters of journalism at the University of Utah, Barbara was put to work doing interviews, shooting and editing silent film, cutting audio tapes and writing stories for television. Her first on-the-job assignment was to interview jimmy Stewart Henry Fonda, Cene Kelly and Sue Ann Langdon-all at once. "I was super scared," Barbara remembers, remem-bers, "but the guys were behind me." Barb's first assignment went smoothly, with the exception of refering to Mr. Stewart as Mr. Fonda, and immediately she was advanced to bigger and better things. The circus came to town, and Barbara Grossman, KUTV reporter, did her first 'standup' on the back of an elephant. Barbara's versatile assignments now include a 'little bit of everything' from stories at the Capitol, the Utah State Prison, and Teamsters Union Bldg. She has traveled to Ephraim with Mrs. George Romney, to Southern Utah with Lawrence J. Burton, and to Boi se with the Bureau of Land Management. Barbara is also on all-night call once a week once in a while to find herself almost arrested by the Salt Lake City Police when assignments included a wild gunman chase. Although competition is what makes one station better than the next in the Salt Lake news media, Barbara insists that she isn't in the business to compete with men. "I'm just taking my load of the responsibility and attempting to do the things I do well. I'm not trying to put any guy down but trying my hardest to produce good quality news." Barbara identifies her greatest accomplishments as meeting a lot of people and learning about all aspects of life. .."from the ghetto Barbara Grossman ...for The Scene W "It's the first time thoroughly enj-Each enj-Each day ane experience." aside frm .M(o: because they "I'm as human as earning a pleasurable wav ' my job, but not |