Bill Kurtis to keynote Meat Industry Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
The Meat Industry Hall of Fame has announced that famed journalist and award-winning broadcaster Bill Kurtis will be the keynote speaker at our annual Induction Ceremony and Dinner on November 3 at The Drake Hotel in Chicago. Kurtis, a legendary news anchor and foreign reporter, has worked for the award winning program CBS Reports and co-hosted the CBS Morning News.
After anchoring the news for Chicago’s WBBM-TV, he left traditional television reporting to start his own production company, making a variety of programs for A & E Television Network. Several years ago, he founded Tallgrass Beef in his home state of Kansas, raising grass fed cattle and supplying meat to some of the top restaurants and supermarkets around the country.