NPPA NewsVideo Workshop

Television NewsVideo Workshop

Charles Hadlock

Charles Hadlock co-anchors the weekday 6 and 10 PM newscasts on KTBS TV.

Hadlock is a native of Marshall, Texas. Before returning to the area in 1999 for family reasons, Charles was a reporter and former weekend news anchor for KHOU TV in Houston. During his 15-year career at KHOU, Hadlock was named Austin Bureau Chief and covered assignments throughout Texas, Mexico and Central America.

Hadlock is as a reporter with an abiding concern for telling visual stories through ordinary people.

In 2002, his assignments included reporting live from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on local soldiers guarding Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners. Hadlock reported live from Canada on Pope John Paul II's pilgrimage to North America. He also produced and moderated a nationally-televised debate between the US Senate candidates in Louisiana.

United Press International and the Associated Press have both honored Hadlock as the Best Reporter in Texas. UPI twice named him one of the top six reporters in the country. His work appeared in almost every NPPA Quarterly Contest in Region Eight.

In 1998, the Dallas Press Club awarded Hadlock the Texas Katie Award for General News and UPI awarded him Best Feature.

In 1997, he was honored with the distinguished Texas Headliners Award.

Hadlock was nationally honored in 1993 with the Leukemia Society of America's Service to Mankind Award. The Texas Forestry Association named Hadlock Journalist of the Year in 1995.

Between 1982-84, Hadlock worked at Houston's KPRC TV as a general assignment reporter. While at KPRC, Hadlock won state and national awards for spot news.

Between 1980-82, Hadlock was a reporter and morning news anchor at WFAA TV in Dallas. His coverage of the Paris, Texas tornado won him the Texas Katie Award for Spot News and helped WFAA win NPPA Station of the Year.

Hadlock is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He has been on the faculty of the NPPA TV News Video Workshop since 1987.