His nearly three-decade career includes his work with Washington D.C.'s CBS affiliate WUSA-TV in D.C. while serving in the United States Air Force.
[4] He began his career with WUSA, first serving as a general assignment reporter, covering local politics and the state governments of Virginia and Maryland.
Strickland later worked as anchor for the evening news broadcast, winning three local Emmy awards for his reporting on fraudulent charities, the shortage of paramedics and ambulances and the lack of medical services in the Washington area.
[3][4] In 1977, Strickland interviewed Eleanor Holmes Norton, the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and D.C.'s first female delegate to the United States Congress.
[1][4] In 1993, Strickland covered the protests over the refusal of many networks to air condom ads, at a time when the Clinton administration began to address the AIDS crisis, but other organizations, including Catholic groups were launching anti-condom campaigns.