Doug Fabrizio was the guest speaker at our November 2008 dinner meeting. Doug, who is a former neighbor of our Governor Elaine Holbrook, has been reporting for KUER Radio since 1987 and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, Doug became host and executive producer of Radiowest, a one-hour conversation and call-in show. He is also the host of the weekly television broadcast Utah Now on KUED Channel 7. He also has served as a guest host of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation.” Doug has received numerous awards from various broadcasting organizations for his reporting and the Radiowest program. He earned his degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Utah, with minors in Theater and Spanish.
Doug began his speech by stating that one of the major lessons he has learned from radio is the art of listening. He aptly demonstrated this art by playing several sound recordings, including a glacier flow, ants rubbing their bodies together at the entrance of their hill, cooling of a lava flow, a World War II speech by Winston Churchill, a portion of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, and the microwave background radiation, the remnant of the 14-billion year old big bang. In a sound recording that Doug played, Desmond Tutu declared, “A person is a person through other persons. I need you for me to be me.” Doug said that when he is “doing it right,” his interviews transform themselves into something organic. In today’s world where there is so much information, Doug stressed that listening is more important than ever. “There are rewards for listening–understanding, peace and grace.”
Thank you, Doug, for an informative and inspiring message.