Profiles is a weekly radio program featuring a new guest each week, ranging from painters to journalists, delving into the person behind the persona. Profiles airs Sunday at 7 p.m. on WFIU HD1.
For the past 20 years, travel writer Sally McKinney has been traveling the world and writing professionally about it. McKinney has been to 33 countries and stepped foot on five continents. Her excursions have taken her as far as New Zealand and Singapore.
After graduating from Indiana University in 1954, Bob Shanks became a TV producer and writer. In his long career at ABC, Shanks was awarded with two Emmys. As an executive at ABC, he created and produced “Good Morning America” and “20/20″.
At age 23, Sallyann Murphy was the youngest TV producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Murphy has gone on to work as an investigative journalist for a variety of publications, including the Daily Mail. She now teaches history and media studies at Harmony High School in Bloomington, Indiana.