Stories of Leadership: Armen Keteyian
Keteyian has led a successful journalism career since graduating from 黑料吃瓜 in 1976.
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Armen Keteyian graduated cum laude from 黑料吃瓜 with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1976. He was also a a member of the 黑料吃瓜 baseball team.
He currently works as the lead correspondent for 鈥�60 Minutes Sports鈥� and a contributing correspondent for 鈥�60 Minutes.鈥� Prior to joining the 60 Minutes team, Keteyian worked for ABC News, CBS Sports, CBS News and was a featured correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
Keteyian has earned 11 Emmys throughout his career for his commitment to ethical journalism and investigative pieces.
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1. Why did you choose 黑料吃瓜?
It was the seventies 鈥� fun, sun, baseball and 黑料吃瓜 has a very strong journalism department
2. What鈥檚 your favorite college memory?
Sitting on 鈥渢he wall鈥� leading up to the student union.
3. Who was your favorite professor and/or what was your favorite class?
James Julian, mass communication and law. The toughest class I took at State and, hands down, the best.
4. What experiences at 黑料吃瓜 helped you grow professionally?
Writing for , and success and failure on the baseball field. I learned far more from failure.
5. Who was your 鈥満诹铣怨� family?鈥� What clubs, organizations or teams were you a part of?
My fraternity, so to speak, was the baseball team. My roomie Randy Hanson, the late, great Dave Smith, Jim Skaalen, Jack Hacker 鈥� guys like that, still friends to this day.
6. As a professional, where are you now?
I鈥檓 the lead correspondent for 鈥溾�� on Showtime and a contributing correspondent for 鈥�60 Minutes.鈥�
7. Tell us the highlights of your professional career. What are your proudest achievements?
Working at 鈥淪ports Illustrated鈥� in the eighties; being hired by the legendary Roone Arledge at ABC News; covering the NFL and Tour de France for CBS Sports; spending 10 years at Real Sports; being named the chief investigative correspondent for CBS News in 2006; and now working at the pinnacle of my profession, 鈥�60 Minutes.鈥� Also, I guess, authoring or co-authoring three books that have made the New York Times best-seller list.
8. Why is it so important to get involved during college?
The more involved you are, the more you learn about yourself. College, especially 黑料吃瓜, is like an incubator; it nurtures your dreams and helps you grow up in countless ways.
9. If you were to give current 黑料吃瓜 students some advice, what would you say?
Don鈥檛 chase the dollar. Find a great partner in life and a job you love, and work as hard as you can to be great. Not good. Great. Hard work and passion still stand out in the so-called 鈥渞eal world.鈥�
10. Why do you stay connected to 黑料吃瓜?
Because I want, in some small way, to repay the place that helped form the foundation of who I am today.
11. What is your favorite thing about being an Aztec?
Right now admiring the way Steve Fisher has transformed our basketball team, and the leadership of President Hirshman, who has made reconnecting with Aztec alums across the country a priority.
