With the worsening traffic in our region aren't we thankful for our amazing traffic reporters? Here's a feature in her own words on one of the best, working with Cumulus Media:
“We have lots of slow going in and out of the spaghetti bowl... We've got construction and lane merges to look out for some hiccups and some backups in our usual trouble areas. We're also seeing a jackknife semi that has collided with the passenger truck I 80 East near USA Parkway and some congestion both direction on one of our busiest daily driver highways…..
Thankfully, this is not an actual traffic report in real time. But these are the kinds of traffic reports you can and will hear in real time.
I'm Kristen Snow, a native of Northern Nevada. I graduated from UNR in 1992 emphasizing in broadcast journalism along with a minor in public relations.
I'm very much a people person and a talker, if you will.
I think journalism is a very diverse field, mass communications and community. I absolutely love.
I originally thought I wanted to do field reporting and quickly changed things a little bit, moved into radio. I've worked all formats in the radio business over the years and have recently dipped my toes in news and traffic reporting and I'm loving it very much.
Effective traffic reporting is in theory very simple yet complex in a way that you want to stay on top of current situations including accidents and incidents such as a motorists assist... debris in the road, an actual traffic accident, breaking news that affects traffic situations within that breaking news, such as road closures.
I use the highway patrol highway site for up to the minute issues and traffic cameras, Google Maps and Waze for road travel info, Nevada 511 for incidents, construction, accidents, special events, weather related closures, doing my best to keep you informed on any situation as quickly as it becomes available to me to keep our travelers moving along on area roads in the best way possible, especially during peak drive times, morning, afternoon, and evening.
#workersofreno reporting by Joseph Azar
