Univision Chicago, an affiliate of TelevisaUnivision, is not disclosing the names of the reporter and photographer.
A Chicago TV news crew reporting on a string of robberies in the city’s West Town neighborhood became the story themselves when they were robbed at gunpoint early Monday.
“They were approached with guns and robbed,” said Luis Godinez, vice president of news at Univision Chicago. “Mainly it was personal items, and they took a camera.” Univision Chicago, the local TV affiliate of international media company TelevisaUnivision, is not disclosing the names of the reporter and photographer to protect their privacy, Godinez said.The news crew was taping a story about robberies in the West Town neighborhood that was slated to run on the morning news. The footage they shot was in the stolen TV camera, and the story never made it on the air, Godinez said.
“We don’t want to make the story about us, because there were other robberies that occurred within that same period,” he said.On Aug. 8, a WLS-TV photographer was assaulted and robbed while preparing to cover a weekday afternoon news conference on the West Side, the station reported.
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