Hi all — I’m staff in the SE bureau located in Atlanta. I split duties between Sat truck/photog/field tec/field producer/ coffee maker! (I’m also in charge of the candy jar!)

We’re primarily a breaking news bureau and we stay pretty busy. Most of our time is spent in our region but we are sometimes sent to other areas depending crew/staffing needs. I’m exciting about blogging and letting you guys know the ins and outs of our “normal” life in the field!

I’ve had a front row seat to history for more than 20 years now, covering local news from South Carolina to Florida to Chicago, Boston, LA, and New York City, and national/international stories in more than 30 states and 20 countries from Aruba to Afghanistan.

I was there when the Twin Towers fell, I was there when the first shots were fired across the Iraq-Kuwait border, I was there when Katrina’s waves receded from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, I was there hours after the bridge collapsed in Minneapolis.

I’ve also been on the field for dozens of World Series games and watched Mark McGwire hit his record breaking home runs, before they were tainted by steroid rumors. I love seeing and listening and learning and conveying the sights and soundbites with intelligence, insight and humor … and I’m looking forward to my next assignment, wherever it is.

Hi All, I’m David MacDougall. I’m based at the FOX News Baghdad bureau, and spend about six months each year in Iraq. The first time I went to Iraq was after the initial invasion in 2003 – and I’ve been going there regularly ever since. I’d didn’t go to Iraq before the war, although I had done a fair amount of traveling round the Middle East, and lived in the region for two years when I worked as a diplomat.

The worst moment I had in front of the camera was also my first time live on TV for FOX – so I’m not likely to forget it! It was Thanksgiving 2004 in Mosul with cameraman Tommy Doig. I had just started interviewing some soldiers, and talking to the anchors back in New York when a couple of helicopters decided to land close by. Of course, the engine noise drowned out the questions, which meant I couldn’t hear a word the anchors were saying. I was convinced my first live report on FOX had been cursed. But the same thing happened to a reporter from CNN a couple of hours later, so I didn’t feel too bad in the end!

Earlier this year, I met three amazing children in Ramadi. Each one had a combat-related injury and little chance they’d get the medical help they needed any time soon. Nine year old Abdul lost his right eye after being shot in the face. Five year old Mustafa took a bullet through the throat. And 12 year old Ayad had all the bones in her legs crushed – as well as being horribly burned – in a roadside bomb attack. The spirit of resilience in these children was quite remarkable, and it was impossible not to be touched by their plight. Keep Reading …

When I first walked into FOX News Channel’s Los Angeles bureau, I didn’t know a white balance from white rice, a microwave truck from a microwave oven, and when editors said they were “crashing” I thought it was in reference to a sugar low.

But over the course of four years at FOX, I have not only increased my vocabulary with a glossary of terms from the television news industry — I have been given the opportunity to travel all over the country, and the world, producing news.

The Los Angeles bureau is my home base — but the enormity of the region it covers keeps all of us staffers regularly on the road. Ours is the “Western Region” — California, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and, yes, Hawaii (but please save your snickering — I have produced two big stories there and have never had a moment to lie on a beach or sip a Mai Tai. As our Coordinating Producer, Don Fair, is fond of saying, Hawaii has so little TV news technology, it’s like producing in a third world country).

I have also traveled overseas on assignment, and it is this type of travel that always makes me marvel at how cool my job is. I have been to Colombia, where our crew hiked through a jungle filled with guerilla insurgents, only to come across multiple cocaine labs; I have tracked drug smugglers in Mexico; I have lived in Israel for a month; I have been tear-gassed in Venezuela. It’s not always glamorous, but it’s always interesting.

If you watch the news, you know the stories. What you don’t know are the stories behind the stories … and in the next few months, you won’t believe some of what you’re going to read.

Hi! I’m Catherine Herridge and welcome to the blog! I’m guessing you watch FOX and know that I cover Homeland Security, terrorism and the intelligence community. In fact, I was the first TV reporter from any network assigned to the homeland beat after 9/11.

I left New York and came to Washington in the fall of 2001, after covering the World Trade Center attack. No one knew how long I would stay in D.C., so after a month the top brass at FOX let me go home to get more clothes and underwear.

Over the years, I’ve been given a nickname: “the Terror Pixie.” I don’t know if it’s the pixie haircut or the topics I cover, but somehow it has stuck. Although the issues I report on are very serious, there is a lighter side from time to time — and I’ll bring it to you whenever I can!