A longtime TMJ4 family member received a special honor Friday night when Sean O'Flaherty was posthumously inducted into the Milwaukee Press Club's Media Hall of Fame.
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O'Flaherty's brother, Dan, gave the acceptance speech on his behalf during the ceremony.
"Over the decades, there were new skills, new challenges, new friends, new technology, new music, but always the same kid who followed the Mercury space flights with his Wollensak tape recorder," Dan recalled of his brother's lifelong love for journalism. "He got to do what he wanted. And so he did it with joy and skill and dedication."
Watch: Sean O'Flaherty's brother, Dan, gives acceptance speech on his behalf during posthumous induction into Milwaukee Press Club's Media Hall of Fame
Dan noted that O'Flaherty passed on that same joy, skill and dedication to hundreds of colleagues.
O'Flaherty started his career at TMJ4 in 1971 as an on-camera reporter before transitioning into behind-the-scenes roles. He mastered nearly every technical operation at TMJ4 News during his decades-long career with the station.
"And never wrote a CV, never looked for a job, never went on an interview, and never schemed for a promotion," Dan said during his acceptance speech, recognizing TMJ4 for giving his brother "the environment that allowed him to do what he loved doing for as long as his body would permit it."
O'Flaherty passed away last year following a battle with multiple myeloma cancer. He was 74.
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