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Unless you happen to be in the news business, you probably dont know Harry Rosetani. But if you read the paper, listen to news on the radio or watch it on TV, you've read, heard or seen his work.
Never mind any of the border crossings that connect the United States and Canada; Rosetani is, in many instances, the Western New York link to Southern Ontario, at least for media outlets.
The 58-year old Rosetani is an ex-cop living in Fort Erie, a virtual one-man news bureau. His house has the sound of his former profession with police scanners in constant voice. His car is plastered with stickers making it, he said, look like something out of a cartoon. He reads five newspapers per day in order to prepare for a job that requires round-the-clock dedication.
"It's 24 hours a day, seven days a week," Rosetani said.
He's been doing it this way since 1983" a couple of years after leaving police work. His training did not come from any journalism school. He dated a newspaper editor and started "running around with freelancers."
Now, he is the freelancer. He files story information and photos to The Buffalo News, video tape and interviews to all three local television stations - WKBW, WIVB and WGRZ and some audio tape for radio stations. Not to mention a bevy of regional and national news agencies in both countries.
"It's really an extremely good job. I dont know of anyone else who does this," he said.
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