Journalist Frank Thorp Jr., a former West Virginia University student, was featured Wednesday, Jan. 13 on NBC’s TODAY show, CBS’s Early Show and in the United Kingdom’s Daily Mail after helping his wife out of the wreckage of the earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti.

Thorp graduated from WVU with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2007. He is 25 years old.

View the stories at:

TODAY: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/34841236/ns/today-today_people/

Early Show: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/13/earlyshow/main6091138.shtml?tag=contentBody

Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1242912/Haiti-earthquake-disaster-Journalist-Frank-Thorp-rushes-Haiti-rescue-wife-trapped-rubble.html

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