After 43 years of hauling his camera, chasing stories, and informing Nebraskans, KETV’s longtime Lincoln Bureau Chief Andrew Ozaki found himself the subject of a news conference Tuesday—for a change.
Ahead of his retirement on Monday, June 30, Governor Jim Pillen awarded Ozaki the honorary title of Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska, recognizing his more than four decades of service.
Despite working for the Omaha-based Channel 7, Ozaki is a Lincoln native and graduate of Lincoln High School and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism. Serendipitously, Ozaki was a neighbor of R. Neale Copple—the founding Dean and “father” of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at UNL…