1. Jean Stanislaw Enersen was born on June 16,1944 and is an American journalist who worked for 48 years at KING-TV in Seattle.
16 Facts About Jean Enersen
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Jean Enersen retired from full-time anchor duties at KING in the summer of 2014, and accepted a retirement buy-out by Tegna, formerly Gannett, in April 2016.
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Jean Enersen was born in San Mateo, California, to Irving "Stan" and Evelyn Stanislaw, while her father was serving in the US Navy.
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Jean Enersen's family moved to the Seattle neighborhood of Magnolia when she was young and she attended Our Lady of Fatima School.
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Jean Enersen then studied at Mercer Island High School, where she participated in swimming and graduated in 1962.
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Jean Enersen attended Pomona College and transferred to Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1966.
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Jean Enersen started her television career as a reporter at KPIX-TV in San Francisco and had planned to earn a PhD at Stanford but lost her government-funded scholarship due to the Vietnam War.
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Jean Enersen returned to Seattle in 1968 for a job in King Broadcasting Company's documentary-film production company King Screen Productions, but the subsidiary was plagued by financial issues.
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Jean Enersen only wanted to roll down his car window and shoot from the car.
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Jean Enersen appeared as KING's main anchor for the first time on August 30,1971.
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Jean Enersen was the first local TV journalist to report from China in 1979 after the US established diplomatic relations.
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Jean Enersen interviewed many notable figures, including Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Ken Behring, Warren Buffett, and Ronald Reagan.
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Jean Enersen retired from the anchor chair in 2014, just before her 70th birthday.
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Jean Enersen remained on staff at KING-TV, primarily reporting for the health news series HealthLink, until fully retiring in 2016.
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Outside of the newsroom, Enersen was known for advocating for charitable organizations, including with the Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and Northwest AIDS Walk.
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Jean Enersen married Dr Bruce Carter, president and CEO of ZymoGenetics, in 1997.