award winning journalist with experience in TV, Radio and print.
Joe Cadotte is a two-time, national Edward R. Murrow award-winning breaking news reporter with experience across multiple platforms, most recently working as the weekend anchor and night supervisor at Alaska's News Source, the largest television coverage area station in the United States. Joe began with the responsibilities of anchoring and multimedia journalism and grew into roles as an executive producer and station-wide manager on shift. He also regularly filled in as the digital manager and was the assignment editor for his shows. He wrote or edited more than a thousand digital articles and maintained multiple long-form investigative projects including enterprise and spot news series - one of which was named in a station-wide Edward R. Murrow award in a five-state regional contest for Overall Excellence.
He also has experience in public radio, live commercial radio news, severe weather, traffic and breaking news reporting and anchoring.
In 2008, as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin Superior, Joe was accepted as an intern for Wisconsin Public Radio, where he spent nearly four years reporting for the statewide network – earning 21 state and national collegiate journalism awards including the 2011 Public Radio News Directors scholarship in Washington D.C., first place for the award and essay.
In 2009, Joe was an on-camera intern reporter at Duluth’s Fox affiliate, where he earned a spot as backup Friday anchor and backup weekend anchor and producer.
In 2010, Joe gained local, regional and national freelance writing gigs spanning three newspapers and wires including Thomson Reuters and Free Speech Radio News. After graduating from UW-Superior and Iowa State, Joe authored a biographical manuscript in Duluth, Minnesota, before becoming the Business, Food and Sunday Editor for the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho.
In 2014, Joe covered breaking news, severe weather, traffic, crime and courts for KFDI-FM in Wichita, Kansas – where he earned two national Edward R. Murrow awards for severe weather coverage and breaking news.
He also earned several Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards for covering a plane that crashed into a flight safety training center and while covering a mass shooting at a lawn mower manufacturing facility in Hesston, Kansas.
In 2016, Joe learned how to shoot video from scratch at KMTV Action 3 News in Omaha, Nebraska, where he gathered, shot, edited, voiced and fronted live television packages and VOSOTs from the field.
In 2017, Joe was hired as the night crime reporter for the Fox and ABC affiliate in Springfield, Illinois, where he served every reporter role in the newsroom except for capitol reporter and sports. He served as a backup afternoon anchor, was promoted to the morning national breaking news desk and was the morning show's live field reporter for local breaking news.
In 2021, Joe was hired as a multimedia journalist for WHNT in Huntsville, Alabama, where he pitched, reported, shot, gathered, wrote, edited and produced more than 90 packages in less than four months. Nearly all of these were enterprise stories and included projects of investigative journalism.
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