CHAPTER 17

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Bart Noonan

World Coverage—From the Top Down

Bart Noonan

Chief Cameraman

Reuters, London

Course Instructor, “TV News Production,” Reuters Foundation

It’s the week before Christmas as Finnair flight 427 from Helsinki to Rovaniemi, Finland, flies over the Arctic Circle, 2,260 kilometers from London, where little Lily Lou Noonan is tucked snug in her bed with dreams of her daddy and the holiday ahead. It’s been a while since Reuters’s cameraman Bart Noonan has been home to see his daughter. He recounts the days as he stares out the jet’s window; his traveling companion, a Panasonic 615 camera, is stashed safely in the overhead compartment. ...

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