George Osterkamp has molded and mentored several generations of news reporters, producers, writers and managers from his current position as a CBS network news producer in the San Francisco Bureau (since 1982), as KRON's Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief (1979), as production assistant, producer/director and finally news director of the legendary nightly news program Newsroom at KQED, the first daily news program on a public TV station (off and on from 1968 to 1979) and as producer at KPIX (1972-76). Along the way, George has picked up three National Emmys (with CBS News), a Columbia-DuPont Citation, and nine local Emmys. He also was a member of the first Courts and Media committee of the California Supreme Court that opened courts to cameras. George just returned from another stint field producing for CBS News in Iraq.