"You see Kerry Burke, who'll go all night long until he drops because he wants to get the story, whether it's celebrity fluff or a triple homicide," Bravo executive producer Ted Skillman told The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz.
"Tabloid Wars" shows Burke writing about stories as varied as a Harry Potter book release party and a beating attack in Queens that may have been racially motivated.
[2] Burke started his career as a freelancer at CitySearch, writing reviews of New York bars and concerts.
After graduating from the Columbia School of Journalism in 2002, he got a job at the Daily News as a "runner" - a reporter out on the streets who hustles to get information however he can.
When he's reporting, Burke carries a backpack containing the following: A flashlight, a bottle of water, tons of notebooks, a box of pens, a disposable camera, batteries, an umbrella, a tape recorder, many maps (borough, subway and bus), a cell phone charger, business cards, magazines, "stake-out food" and Hagstrom's NYC Five Borough map book.