If you ask ESPN reporter Lisa Salters whom she aspired to be growing up in King of Prussia in the 1980s, she won’t mention Frank Gifford, Al Michaels, or any of the other famed broadcasters she stayed up late watching on Monday Night Football, writes Rob Tornoe for philly.com.
Her idol growing up was Lisa Thomas Laury, the beloved 6ABC reporter and Action News anchor who retired last year.
“She was royalty to me,” said Salters, 51. “I saw a black woman on TV that I admired, and I wanted to be like her.”
Instead, Lisa Salters climbed the ladder of traditional journalism, honing her reporting chops at WBAL in Baltimore before becoming a national correspondent for ABC News. There, she covered the Oklahoma City bombing trials, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and O.J. Simpson’s criminal and civil trials, among other major events. Her bureau chief was the son of an ESPN executive, who recruited Salters to the network, which she joined in 2000.
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