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Name: Paul Fiddick
Degree and Year: BJ '71
Company: Emmis Communications Corporation
Company Web Site: http://www.emmis.com/
Title: President, International
City and State: Arlington, Va.

What do you do?
I'm the chief executive of a company that owns and operates private commercial radio stations in Argentina, Belgium and Hungary.

How did you get your job?
I headed two other radio station groups in the United States before serving with the Clinton Administration (Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture). I was already known in the radio industry and my political experience is helpful in my dealings with foreign governments.

Best professional lesson learned at the J-School?
There is no substitute for hands-on experience.

What would be your best advice to current students?
Be intellectually curious. Learn more than is necessary - you never know when the knowledge will be valuable to you and others.

What is something about you that might surprise people?
Working as "Paul W. Richardson," I spent about 3,000 hours on the air as a Top 40 DJ on KCCS, the IRHA-owned commercial carrier-current radio station, while at Mizzou.

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