Women enter skilled trades as metro Atlanta faces growing demand
With metro Atlanta's high demand for skilled trade workers, some women are trying to close the gender gap in the mostly male-dominated field.
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Brian Unger is a multi-skilled journalist at CBS News Atlanta, where he reports on a broad range of news, people and events across the Atlanta Metro.
Unger is an Ohio native and graduate of Ohio University, where he earned his bachelor's degree and holds an honorary doctorate.
He began his journalism career at CBS News in New York as a producer for Connie Chung. He also worked with correspondents Charles Kuralt and Bill Geist and contributed to multiple broadcasts in the news division, "48 Hours," "Street Stories," "Eye on America" and special election coverage.
He went on to report and produce at the syndicated news hour "Day & Date" for CBS, before departing the network to became a founding producer and the first-ever correspondent for "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. He later produced and hosted his own series on Discovery, Travel, National Geographic and History, including the New York Times best-seller and TV hit, "How the States Got Their Shapes," and many factual series for cable and network platforms FOX, A&E and HGTV.
Unger has had a long presence in national journalism, anchoring at MSNBC, as a commentator at CNN, NPR's "Day & Date" and "All Things Considered," and KCET where he won top honors for best commentary in Southern California, as well a narrator for the PBS series "Nature."
Atlanta is his home, where he lives on a farm in north Georgia, with far too many animals to cite here.
With metro Atlanta's high demand for skilled trade workers, some women are trying to close the gender gap in the mostly male-dominated field.
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