Media personality Jason DeRusha discusses taking on new challenges and expanding his audience.
Jason DeRusha laughs as he recalls how clear his career path always was. “I was obsessed with game shows, local news and talk radio,” he says. “I was walking around the playground in suburban Chicago, doing interviews with the other kids. You can imagine how popular I was.”
For more than two decades, the Maple Grove resident was a fixture in local media, serving as a news anchor and morning show host for WCCO. Three years ago, DeRusha switched gears, leaving his position at WCCO to try his hand at something new—radio and podcasting. “I wasn’t learning and growing like I wanted to,” he says. “So, the question was, ‘Do I tread water, or do I go out there and learn some new skills?’”…