Richard Carlson is an experienced print and broadcast journalist. He has written, produced and directed three documentary filmsfor ABC TV and one for NBC TV. “Hello Again-With Rod McKuen," was about the poet and songwriter Rod McKuen's search for his missing father. It won a Hollywood Emmy and a “Golden Mike” and was made into the book, "Finding My Father” by Rod McKuen. Carlson has won two other Hollywood Emmy's and two other “Golden Mike” Awards for investigative reporting and was once the head of the ABC-TV Investigative Unit in Los Angeles, which specialized in long-term corruption and malfeasance investigations. Carlson wasalso a general-assignment reporter and columnist for United Press International and has written hundreds of magazine and newspaper stories.