Mike is an international multimedia journalist with Voice of America, a U.S.-funded broadcast agency based out of Washington, DC. When he’s done writing copy and voicing news stories for the day, Mike turns his attention to his personal business as a leading Washington Redskins historian. With two published books, a television show, and a column on the team’s official website, Mike works around the clock to keep his Redskins “empire” running!
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>> My name is Mike Richman. My full-time profession, I work for the Voice of America, which is a US funded broadcast agency, and I'm what's called an international multi-media journalist there. Number of things. I write news copy. I voice radio stories, write and voice radio stories, television pieces, and web stories as well. My background, my profession is as a journalist. So that is what I call my full-time profession. I also have a very busy schedule with what I call my Redskins Empire. I have a business called the Press Box, which is the umbrella for my Redskins Empire. I have a website called Redskins Historian dot com, which houses all of the work that I've done Redskins related. I've written two books on Redskins history, "The Redskins Encyclopedia" and "The Washington Redskins Football Vault", and I write for the Redskins website, Redskins dot com. I have my own TV show called "Burgundy and Gold Magazine". It's all Redskins related. It's sort of divided between features on Redskins history and contemporary Redskins issues, and I've hosted a podcast radio show called "Burgundy and Gold Flashback". So all of this is, it's very close to another full-time profession. It's all, that's all Redskins related. What Voice of America does is we broadcast throughout the world. We have about 45 different language services, and I work in what's called the nerve center of the agency, the central newsroom. We write news copy, wires, what you would call wire copy. We do issue radio stories, television pieces, web stories, and a lot of that is for dissemination around the agency, and our web pieces can be viewed by anybody. A breaking news story, for instance, like yesterday, the car chase. Just cranking out one story after another because radio copy is, you know, you have to constantly update it. That would be a very busy day. If I'm working on a feature, telephone interviews, writing the script for that feature, voicing it, I mean, that's all very time consuming, and that would be very busy as well.
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