Steve Pickett is celebrating 30 years with CBS 11 KTVT, the CBS News Texas station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and colleagues recently honored the veteran reporter for his decades of work in North Texas.
Pickett is perhaps best known for his coverage of the Dallas Independent School District. During his career, Pickett has taken a deeper look at issues including child neglect, race relations, domestic abuse, and crime. Pickett was the only broadcast journalist embedded with the Texas National Guard’s 56th Brigade during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2010, he also traveled with a group of Dallas physicians to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to report on the aftermath of the devastating earthquake there.
An Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pickett has received national recognition for his reporting on public education. His coverage from New Orleans, Louisiana, following Hurricane Katrina earned the “Best News Story” Katie Award from the Press Club of Dallas. Over the years, Pickett has also received professional recognition from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Institute for Educational Inquiry, the Poynter Institute, and the University of Oklahoma Black Alumni Society.
Pickett joined KTVT in March 1996 after reporting for KGW in Portland from 1993 to 1996. Before that, he spent nearly eight years at ABC30 KFSN in Fresno, California, where he worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor. The University of Oklahoma grad also worked in Oklahoma City and Wichita Falls.
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