Ross Becker is a journalist who primarily works in television, radio, and digital. He is the president and CEO of TvNewsmentor.com, dedicated to growing and mentoring talent. He is also the founding partner of Top News Talent, LLC, a coaching, training and representation company for broadcast, and digital journalists. Career Becker began his career in broadcasting in 1975 as a reporter at WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, before moving in 1977 to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis as a weekend anchor and field reporter. He then moved to KCBS-TV (then-known as KNXT) in Los Angeles in 1980 as a reporter, eventually becoming head of the Investigative Team and weekend anchor, as well as a host of a short-lived 7 p.m. newscast. He received three Emmys for coverage of the Cerritos plane crash and Southern California windstorms. He also received six Golden Mike Awards and the AP Mark Twain Award for news writing. During his tenure at KCBS, he served two years as President of the Radio/TV News Association of Southern California. In 1990, Becker moved on to KCOP-TV to anchor the station's only newscast, replacing Warren Olney. At KCOP, he received an Emmy Award for coverage of the Reginald Oliver Denny beating, which started the L.A. area riots. In 1995, Becker quit KCOP, complaining about "sold-out, disgusting, tabloid" journalism in Los Angeles. In January 1996, Becker was hired as a freelance journalist and conducted a 90-minute interview with O. J. Simpson. It was the first interview with Simpson following his acquittal on murder charges. The interview was controversial at the time because its videotape got distributed for sale instead of airing on "free" television or cable. During the interview, Becker agreed not to ask about Simpson's children, finances, or the then-pending civil lawsuit. However, Becker disclosed this at the beginning of the interview and ultimately questioned him about those subjects. In the video, Simpson blamed people "in Faye Resnick's circle" for the murder and accused Mark Fuhrman of planting evidence related to Simpson's guilt. Many television stations and the National Enquirer, which printed many details about the trial, refused to carry advertising for the video. After conducting the interview, Becker took a break from big-city television news. In 1995, Becker and his wife, Linda, purchased three radio stations in Kentucky. These included WIEL-AM Elizabethtown, WKMO in Lebanon Junction, and WRZI-FM in Hodgenville. These got sold to Commonwealth Broadcasting in 2000, and Becker