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Robert Price joined 17 News in February 2020 after three decades in print journalism, and he seems to have taken to his career change well. Since coming to KGET, Robert has won three Pacific Southwest Emmy awards, one Golden Mike Award and three Edward R. Murrow Awards, including one for his groundbreaking 2021 five-part series on the illicit opioid fentanyl.

A husband. A son. A father. An avid reader. Jamie Osuna’s family described him as all of these things once. Now he’s an inmate. A confessed murderer. He’s tattooed most of his face to look like a c…

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Jenny Jiin Huh joined KGET 17 News in August 2023. A recent graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Jenny studied journalism, integrated marketing and communications and Mandarin. As an undergraduate, Jenny served as news director, anchor and reporter for the Emmy Award-winning Northwestern News Network. She has also received multiple collegiate awards ...