Draft:Will A. Spens

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Will A. Spens (born Alasdair Will Spens Thomson Jr; December 21, 1950 - April 1, 2008)^[1] was an American broadcaster on radio and television from the late 1960s until the late 1990s. His career began on AM radio in Connecticut, moved to radio and television in New York, and ended in Los Angeles. Spens was notable for his consummate style and delivery both on and off the screen. His television production style often incorporated cinéma vérité and man in the street interviews that were technically complex, yet required few takes to achieve. In an era when television reporters were expected to keep the viewers attention while reporting live from the scene, Spens drew the viewer in using the kinetic visual style, walking the audience through the news scene in his trademark trenchcoat while expertly narrating the story in a pleasing voice and raising the production quality of news reporting to the level of art. Over the course of his career, he received two New York Emmy Awards and a Public Affairs Award for his local news reporting, and a New York City Civilian Heroism Award.^[2]