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D4 Thursday. December 4, 1997 The Honoiulu Advertiser KITV: News staff is poised to take over the No. 1 spot response: They are, and she might go after individual estate officials for reimbursement. "Anything else you'd like to add?" Huff asked. "I said I wouldn't tell you a thing," Bronster said.

"But I probably gave you more than I wanted." As Bronster headed back into the governor's office, Huff began piecing together a story from what had earlier looked to be nothing. "I can see it in my head," Huff said. Bronster's comments about reimbursing the state would lead the story, edited together with file footage of Lindsey and her attorneys, the news of the day's court filings and video of Huff talking about the events into his microphone. He called his idea into the office, did his "upper" (stand-up narration) in front of the Capitol and went back to the newsroom, where he found out his story would lead the 6 p.m. show.

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KING ST. (next to LH Penthouse) WAREHOUSE SALE! Sunday; December 7, 1997 10:00 a.m 100 his duties). Roaming for stories KITVs staff thinks it has something special a reporter's shop where reporters are free to roam their beats and return at the end of the day with exclusive stories. Even the anchormen and anchorwomen have reporting responsibilities and are expected to look for news. Anchors and reporters ticked off story after story where egos were set aside and their colleagues dug through public records or contacted sources to help each other.

It's a formula they hope will help them overtake KHON in the 10 p.m. broadcast perhaps as soon as the ratings come out for the November sweeps period that just ended. AndifKHON's 10 p.m. broadcast falls, conventional wisdom says its franchise 6 p.m. show is doomed.

KITVs beat-up newsroom, stuffed to the ceiling with desks, shelves, editing machines and videotapes, is the kind of place where no conversation is private and it's impossible to roll back a chair without bumping into somebody. But neither Zimmermann nor his producers feel they need to crawl on top of reporters to find out how they're doing on their stones, reporters say. "There's a hierarchy in place, but everybody's loose," said money reporter Ann Botticelli, who also has worked for KHON and The Advertiser. "Wally's the boss, but he's not the least bit imposing. He's very inviting and warm He likes to debate decisions for the sake of the polemics.

And people are allowed to argue their point and argue it vigorously." Zimmermann has been known to stick his arms inside the copy machine to fix a problem. He scoops up the faxes and sometimes vacuums what's left of the newsroom's stained and pitted carpet. Informal and effective Zimmermann will gladly reach into the guts of the office of the day-to-day developments in the Bishop Estate story, went to federal court to check on contempt motions against one of the estate's trustees, Lokelani Lindsey. At the courthouse, the motions contained nothing unexpected. And Lindsey's lawyer repeated comments he's made before.

So Huff and photographer Rick Pike headed for the state Capitol to track down Attorney General Margery Bronster, trying to see if they could develop a new angle. On the drive over to the Capitol, Huff said: "There's a good possibility that my story will get turned on its ear, depending on what Bronster says, which would be OK with me. If I can do this short, that leaves more time for Dooley to do his thing." Bronster began her interview with Huff by offering no encouragement. "I'm going to say the same thing I always say, which isn't much," she told him. As Pike turned on his camera, Huff poked Bronster with questions about the previous day's report, her own investigation and the motions to hold Lindsey in contempt.

Bronster offered little comment until Huff asked whether all the delays are costing taxpayers money. Her Basket includes: Cookies Chocolates Delivery Available To most Areas hinq goodies Mochi Crunch i Pretzel Mines I 593-1774 Ask about corporate Basnets noway uecor. FLYIN- HAWAIIAN BALLNS 1133-1 South King Street Btwn. Pensacole Pllkol DKNY THE ULTIMATE YOU DESIGNER CONSIGNMENT 50-90 OFF 1020 Auahi 591-8388 M-Sat DANItRUPTCy STOP Creditor Harassment PROTECT HomeAuto BusinessWages DIVORCEFAMILY Joseph BrOSh, Attorney 1088 Bishop 1008 Efifi AIOO Open EveWeekends aOO'vOfcfc CD 5 LAW FROM PAGE D1 "I realize that 4 does break a lot of stories, more than I thought in the past," said Picken, who is taking a new job in Boise, Idaho. "They have more experience, top to bottom, than any other station." "Channel 4 has the best, most talented news staff in town," said a veteran reporter from a rival station, who asked not to be identified because he didn't want his bosses knowing he admires somebody else's staff.

"They like to think they're the station that breaks the most stories. And you know what? That'strue." Even KITV reporters new to the camera are making a difference. Investigative reporter Jim Dooley, who worked for The Advertiser for 21 years before joining KITV 18 months ago, knows his presentation on his first TV stories was rougher than a three-day beard. But content counts more than style at KITV. And Dooley has continued to break exclusives on the biggest story of the year, investigations of the Bishop Estate, whose wealth and land touch nearly every aspect of life in Hawaii.

Erin Ostrem worked behind the camera at two other stations before KITV hired her as its police reporter. In less than two years, Ostrem, 29, has impressed reporters at other stations by continually coming up with stories nobody else has. Among the new generation of young television reporters in Hawaii, veterans regularly rate Ostrem as the best of the group. They're all part of the new market for television talent that KHNL News 8 created when it started Hawaii's fourth news station in 1995. In the shuffle, KITV lost two anchorreporters, two photographers, a technical director and an engineer to KHNL.

One of them, sports anchor Robert Kekaula, returned to KITV in early November after he was fired from KHNL for a newsroom scuffle (KHNL executive news producer Alex McGehee also was relieved of Now (Does no! include 0 20 we've got walkshorts, we've got it all 1 n. fir fT sj New 1 School and Business Attire location 727-waiakamilo Rd. 847-5541 equipment, yet regarding his staff he feels confident that there's no need to stick his head into every decision. The morning news meeting is supposed to happen somewhere around 10:30 a.m., somewhere around the desk of assignments manager Wanda Wehr. In reality, it's an informal, 10-minute rundown between Wehr and executive producer Lori Silva on what each reporter is working on.

Since most of the reporters don't have specific angles to pursue, everything's fluid in the morning and there's no reason to try to lock things down. "I don't like meetings where all the important people go off into a glass room and everybody else can see important decisions being made," Zimmermann said. "What in God's name is the value of that? I don't like people who get full of themselves." On what promised to be a slow news day, the best possibility to lead the 6 p.m. broadcast nearly eight hours away looked to be some sort of follow to a harsh report on the Bishop Estate that came out the previous day. Dooley made some phone calls and then dug around in the 120-page report for other angles to chase.

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Udell believes that KITV has something special going on. Magic-in-a-bottle time. "There isn't the kind of egos, the kind of cutthroat thing3 you see at other stations," he said. "It's an exciting place." That "place" is moving from the Ala Moana location to a fancy new newsroom at One Archer Lane. The news staff should be settling into the new home around mid-December.

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