AM Northwest’s Helen Raptis on hitchhiking to work, pushing past “no,” and how “pay-to-play,” doesn’t always require cold hard cash.

You may remember Helen Raptis as KATU’s “Roving Red-Head,” for the ABC station’s hallmark morning show in Portland, AM Northwest. The show has seen a lot of changes over the years and so has Helen. This episode of PR ChalkTalk gets into AM Northwest’s transition to partially-monetized segments and Helen’s trip up the newsroom ladder while experiencin