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Although she was required to be at the station only from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., Silberstein usually worked straight through from 8 a.m. to midnight. Rosenwig moved to Miami around this time, going to work for a Post-Newsweek station. He had seen Silbers- tein's audition tape and when he heard about an opening at a sister station in Jackson- ville, Fla., he sent the station her tape, without Silberstein's knowledge. The station con- tacted her and Silberstein was caught completely off guard. "When the news direc- tor called me from Jackson- ville, I didn't even know where Jacksonville was." Following graduation from MSU with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications, Silberstein joined WJXT-TV in Jacksonville as a new reporter. Looking back on that first job, she laughingly remembers, "When the news director asked me how old I was I just said, 'I'm old enough.' I didn't want to tell him how old I was — he pro- bably thought I was 22 since I had graduated from college." In reality, since she was only 20, Silberstein had to bring her mother to Jacksonville in order to sign the necessary papers for a car rental! Two years later, Silberstein was offered the job of reporter at Detroit sister station WDIV. She loved working for the Post-Newsweek Co., but, she says, "I really wanted to get back to the Midwest. I'm a Midwest person." Three months into her Detroit job, news anchor Andrea Joyce left, creating an opening for weekend evening news an- chor. Silberstein glided smoothly into the slot. Silberstein's career has in- cluded some particularly memorable assignments. In Jacksonville her objectivity was tested when she was assigned to interview the Grand Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. "I had a black photographer, an Hispanic sound man and we were laughing on the way to the in- terview. I'm sure he knew I was Jewish." She continues, "Those kind of things need to be covered. If you sweep them under the rug they can become more dangerous. I let him have his say . . . what I thought was so bizarre was that he handed me his business card with the KKK insignia." Debra Silberstein prepares her newscast. Silberstein and co-anchor child, earned her a Michigan Bob Pisor were on the air Education Association School when Northwest's Flight 255 Bell Award. crashed. In such situations, Viewers are often Silbers- she says, "It's a great respon- tein's best sources for stories. sibility, and those are the "When I'm out and around, times when you really have to viewers come up to me and call on all of your experience say they enjoy my reports and and everything you've learn- tell me about this or that ed — and that's when ex- special program at their perience really counts. You're child's school." Her story on going on the air live and the the loss group at Southfield- information is coming in so Lathrup High came about in fast that you can't really this manner. Silberstein has prepare a newscast the way other sources, too. "People on you normally would . . . you the street, school officials, just have to be that cool, even- people in state government. keeled person to handle that:' I've been on this beat about a Silberstein also notes, "That's year and a half, doing it three the time when you really see days a week. You make a lot a newsroom buzzing. It's sad of contacts and people start that in times of tragedy news calling you." people really have to call Silberstein validates her upon their all." commitment to education by Silberstein works weekends participating in the Detroit from 3:30 to 11:30 p.m. She Public Schools' Student and co-anchor Pisor write all Motivational Program. In their own material. Describ- this "mentor" program, ing a typical day, Debra says, students are matched with "We sit down at our com- career persons. Silberstein is puters at 3:30. I'm usually in partial to her student, a an edit booth from 4:30 to 17-year-old aspiring broad- 5:30. We do the news, take a caster with a 3.5 average who, break for dinner and start she says, "stands out." writing the 11." Silberstein adds, "So many Silberstein and Pisor have people have helped me in my been a team for two years and career and now I'm a mentor share mutual respect and ad- to somebody else." miration. Says Silberstein, Silberstein herself con- "Bob is just a gem. He's such tinues to be noticed and com- a fine writer." Pisor finds mended. Her report, working with Silberstein a "Policewomen Fighting More pleasure, and comments, than Crime," which depicted "Debra has a strong interest the Detroit policewoman's in the news. She is very quick struggle to prove herself to to pitch in. Weekends can be her colleagues as well as to quiet, but when an event the public, won two national takes place it requires awards. Other well-received everyone to pour themselves in-depth news series have in- into it. Debra does just that." cluded "The Coming of Age," On weekdays, as which dealt with Alzheimer's southeastern Michigan's only disease and "Airport Insecuri- education reporter, Silber- ty," a look at Metropolitan stein covers all educational Airport's security system. news in the tri-county area. Silberstein and her hus- Silberstein has conducted in- band, Marc Curtis, a Farm- depth studies on many areas ington Hills financial consul- dealing with schools, such as tant, find their work drop-outs, teen pregnancy, schedules are often at odds. state testing programs, and "He works Monday through security problems in the Friday. I'm off Thursday and Detroit Public Schools and Friday, so we never really get drug problems. Her 1987 to spend a full day together." series, "An Elementary Solu- They do occasionally squeeze tion," which explored the im- in nine holes of golf and en- pact of pre-school experiences joy spending holidays with on the future learning of a the large Curtis clan.