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>> My name is Mike Richman.

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My full-time profession, I work for the Voice of
America, which is a US funded broadcast agency,

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and I'm what's called an international
multi-media journalist there.

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Number of things.

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I write news copy.

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I voice radio stories, write
and voice radio stories,

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television pieces, and web stories as well.

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My background, my profession is as a journalist.

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So that is what I call my full-time profession.

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I also have a very busy schedule
with what I call my Redskins Empire.

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I have a business called the Press Box,
which is the umbrella for my Redskins Empire.

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I have a website called Redskins
Historian dot com,

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which houses all of the work
that I've done Redskins related.

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I've written two books on Redskins
history, "The Redskins Encyclopedia"

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and "The Washington Redskins Football Vault",

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and I write for the Redskins
website, Redskins dot com.

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I have my own TV show called
"Burgundy and Gold Magazine".

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It's all Redskins related.

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It's sort of divided between
features on Redskins history

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and contemporary Redskins issues,

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and I've hosted a podcast radio show
called "Burgundy and Gold Flashback".

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So all of this is, it's very close
to another full-time profession.

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It's all, that's all Redskins related.

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What Voice of America does is we
broadcast throughout the world.

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We have about 45 different language services,
and I work in what's called the nerve center

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of the agency, the central newsroom.

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We write news copy, wires,
what you would call wire copy.

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We do issue radio stories, television
pieces, web stories, and a lot of that is

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for dissemination around the agency, and
our web pieces can be viewed by anybody.

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A breaking news story, for instance,
like yesterday, the car chase.

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Just cranking out one story after
another because radio copy is, you know,

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you have to constantly update it.

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That would be a very busy day.

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If I'm working on a feature, telephone
interviews, writing the script for that feature,

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voicing it, I mean, that's all very time
consuming, and that would be very busy as well.