Education
Medill School of Journalism.
Medill School of Journalism.
He has reported on wars, natural disasters, Paris fashions, the fading popularity of Welsh choirs, and the return of American jazz to Shanghai, China. He has worked for Columbia Broadcasting System News for more than three decades. After attending high school in Sidney, Montana, he studied at the Medill School of Journalism.
Petersen wrote about his wife"s diagnosis with early onset of Alzheimer"s disease in 2005, in a work entitled "January’s Story: Love lost to the long goodbye of Alzheimer"s", which was published in June 2010.
January was also a Columbia Broadcasting System News journalist, reporting from both Japan and the former Soviet Union for Columbia Broadcasting System News Radio, Columbia Broadcasting System News Sunday Morning, and the Columbia Broadcasting System Weekend News.