Wayne Freedman is a former feature reporter for KGO-TV; the ABC owned television station in San Francisco, California.
[5] He worked as an apprentice at KABC-TV while earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
[2][6] In the late 1970s Freedman began his television reporting career at WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky before moving to WAVE-TV.
[citation needed] Freedman is the author of a book, It Takes More Than Good Looks To Succeed In Television Reporting, first published in 2003.
In a review for the Chicago Tribune, Steve Johnson writes, "At less than 30 minutes, "Wayne Freedman's Notebook" only suggests what it might have been, an in-depth profile of a haunted but admirable figure and a damning portrait of local TV news painted from an unusual perspective.