As a teenager in Queens, N.Y., Jim Murphy dreamed of entering the diplomatic corps. But, when he was a senior in high school, an internship at WPIX-TV New York got him hooked on the TV business. The career could have gone either way, he recalls, and was basically decided by the extra $1 per hour compared with a clerkship at the UN. That extra buck was a lot of money for a working-class kid in the 70s. "That's how I ended up in television," the executive producer of CBS Evening News says with a laugh. Murphy has been going to college―on and off―for some 20 years. He regrets never getting a degree―but not much. After all, he got the best television education achievable right in his own backyard: working at three New York stations in his teens and 20s.
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