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About Larry Hatteberg, KAKE-TV

For 39 years, Larry Hatteberg has brought a special kind of television to Kansas.  His constant search for ordinary people, whose stories illuminate larger issues, put him in a position to develop a personal relationship with Kansas viewers.  

Throughout the nation, he is known as a video storyteller who can "touch" people with his television journalism.  

His national award-winning "Hatteberg's People" series is the longest running television feature in Kansas. Based on the TV series, Larry published two successful books called "Larry Hatteberg’s Kansas People".  These best-selling books profile 160 Kansans who make the state a unique place to live.

Larry’s television career began at KAKE in 1963 when he started as a part-time film lab technician. He’s been a photographer, chief photographer, assistant news director, executive news director and is now prime-time  co-anchor of KAKE News At Five with co-anchor Susan Peters.

He is also the co-host of the local segments of the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day Telethon.

There are few major awards Larry hasn’t won. His latest, is a regional "Emmy" from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for ‘Lifetime Achievement’.

His Hatteberg’s People series also won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Writing.  He’s been named twice  the prestigious "National Press Photographers Television News Cameraman of the Year."  He is one of only a select few in the nation who have won that award twice.

He received three of the highest awards in photojournalism given by the National Press Photographers Association.

He was also national semi-finalist for NASA’s "Journalist-in-Space"  program.

In addition, he has received over 90 local, state and national awards for television news photography, reporting, and for helping to set broadcast journalism standards.

Larry grew up in Winfield, Kansas, a small community just south of Wichita. His parents, Merle and Mary Hatteberg, owned the Peerless Baking Company for 48 years. His mother was also a nurse at Newton Hospital in Winfield.

A 1962 graduate of Winfield High School, Larry attended Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia and Wichita State University while working full-time at KAKE-TV.

Hatteberg’s interest in photography began at Winfield High where he was photo-editor of the school newspaper and yearbook. During his junior and senior year, he began his professional career by selling photos to the local newspaper.

Larry's wife, Judy, is a teacher in the Wichita public school system. They have two married daughters, Sherry and Susan. Sherry is a teacher living in Lee's Summit, Missouri. Susan works as a full time mother in Wichita, Kansas.