responsible for booking guests
and working on segments for
hosts Diane Sawyer and Bill
Curtis. She even got the oppor-
tunity to utilize her Spanish
skills when the foreign desk
sent her to Central America on
assignment with Sawyer.
Ringe left CBS late in 1984
to start up her own company,
Idea Factory, to produce television promos, videos, and radio projects.
She returned to CBS six months later as producer of Face the Nation with
Leslie Stahl. In that role, Ringe preinterviewed potential guests, wrote up
the interview notes, helped determine what hot news topics the show
would cover each week, and booked guests based on the preinterviews.
"On Saturdays we would sit around and put the questions together with
Leslie. Basically, we had a brainstorming session where we would sit
around and compile information, and then come up with a road map of
questions for the interviews. Then, sometimes I would cut the taped piece
that introduced the day's stories."
After leaving CBS, Ringe briefly produced segments for Travel &
Adventure, a nationally syndicated travel program, and with TVAM,
British Independent Television, traveling around the U.S. with their corre-
spondents. She put together funding to make a documentary for PBS,
then spent two years at the Library of Congress as director of the Global
Library Project, where she was charged with producing television docu-
mentaries about the Library of Congress and its collections.
Ringe married a foreign service officer in 1987 and moved with him
to Seoul, Korea. There, she landed a job reporting for CNN, producing
two to three stories each week for the next few years, and also acted in
six episodes of a Korean soap opera. Following a nine month return to
Washington, D.C., for her husband to undergo language training, the
pair was assigned to Kiev. Originally slated to open a field office there
for CNN, things did not pan out and Ringe accepted a position as vice
president of production for a television direct marketing company,
requiring a monthly commute between Kiev and Los Angeles. When
the company folded in the late 1990s, Ringe retired from the business
to raise a family.
Be persistent and
willing to take whatever
job is available to get
into the newsroom,
learn procedures, and
demonstrate your work ethic.
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