Dickerson initially occupied a job in radio at the
KCOH and
KPRC-TV in Houston. Dickerson's television career began in 1973, when he worked as a news reporter at Channel 9 in
Oklahoma City, OK. In 1975, he then returned to his home city of Houston to begin working at
KTRK Channel 13, as a general assignments’ news reporter. Dickerson was the recipient of a "special citation" at the
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards in 1977 for a documentary he had produced at KTRK in 1976, “Requiem for a Dying Neighborhood”, describing the decay in an area located in downtown Houston. == Career as a reporter ==