award winning journalist with experience in TV, Radio and print.
Joe Cadotte is a two-time, national Edward R. Murrow award winning breaking news reporter with experience across multiple platforms, most recently working as a multimedia journalist for Huntsville, Alabama’s CBS affiliate.
He has experience in public radio, commercial live radio news, severe weather, traffic and breaking news reporting and anchoring.
In 2008, as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin Superior, Joe was accepted as an intern for Wisconsin Public Radio, where he spent nearly four years reporting for the statewide network – earning 21 state and national collegiate journalism awards including the 2011 Public Radio News Directors scholarship in Washington D.C., first place for the award and essay.
In 2009, Joe was an on-camera intern reporter at Duluth’s Fox affiliate, where he earned a spot as backup Friday anchor and backup weekend anchor and producer.
In 2010, Joe gained local, regional and national freelance writing gigs spanning three newspapers and wires including Thomson Reuters and Free Speech Radio News. After graduating from UW-Superior and Iowa State, Joe authored a biographical manuscript in Duluth, Minnesota, before becoming the Business, Food and Sunday Editor for the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho.
In 2014, Joe covered breaking news, severe weather, traffic, crime and courts for KFDI-FM in Wichita, Kansas – where he earned two national Edward R. Murrow awards for severe weather coverage and breaking news.
He also earned several Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards for covering a plane that crashed into a flight safety training center and while covering a mass shooting at a lawn mower manufacturing facility in Hesston, Kansas.
In 2016, Joe learned how to shoot video from scratch at KMTV Action 3 News in Omaha, Nebraska, where he gathered, shot, edited, voiced and fronted live television packages and VOSOTs from the field.
In 2017, Joe was hired as the night crime reporter for the Fox and ABC affiliate in Springfield, Illinois, where he served every reporter role in the newsroom except for capital reporter and sports. He served as a backup afternoon anchor, was promoted to the morning national breaking news desk and was the morning show's live field reporter for local breaking news.