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It's appropriate that KSTP Reporter Jason Davis came to the Twin Cities' television station as an experienced world traveler. Davis, born in London, spent his youthful years as a British merchant seaman. He settled in Australia where he began his television news career four years later. By the time he arrived at KSTP-TV in 1976, Davis knew he liked the feel of being on the move - whether on the water or "On the Road." Although Davis has won awards for documentary, investigative, and sports reporting, it's his work with the "On the Road" news features that gives him the greatest satisfaction. He calls it a creative freedom to interpret happenings or events in a way that is informative and entertaining. Davis' reporting has taken him to the North Pole with Minnesota explorer Will Steger, across two oceans with history-making sailor Gerry Spiess, to Cuba with the University of St. Thomas baseball team and to 34 other countries around the world. But he didn't have to leave the country, or the Midwest, to find good stories about good people: They lingered after breakfast at northwoods' cafes; or they made heroic efforts to save their cattle from the springtime floods. They were ordinary people who sometimes did extraordinary things - or extraordinary people who did ordinary things. And Jason Davis made their stories touch viewers and leave lasting impressions. |