Her Interest in Journalism Begin When She Was a Senior in High School. Meet KPIX 5 News Anchor, Elizabeth Cook
Q: What led to your decision to pursue a career in Broadcasting & Journalism?EC: I had the privilege of working with Tom Brokaw when I was a senior in high school. Brokaw was the Grand Marshall of the Rose Parade, while I was on the Royal Court for the Tournament of Roses. I wasn’t sure what I wanted my major to be or what college I should choose. He encouraged me to pursue a career in journalism because of our mutual love of history and storytelling. Q: ..
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A Conversation with KRON4 News Anchor, Vicki Liviakis
Q: How did your career start as a News Anchor?VL: Writing and illustrating story booklets of what seemed endlessly fascinating in my little world. I was six or seven years old. Topics mostly included horses. And… horses. Eventually that developed into writing articles and taking photos of high school life for the campus paper. Most noteworthy was a piece on streakers who ran buck-naked through a football game. I believe I actually wrote the eye-brow raisin..
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The Weather Intrigued Her as it's Always an Important News Story. Meet ABC7 Meteorologist Sandhya Patel
Q: What made you decide to go in the field of telling the weather?SP: It was a complete accident! I started out in news in Salinas in 1999 doing a variety of jobs from reporting, anchoring, writing, producing to helping run the assignment desk. When I was assigned the task of writing a weather segment for our anchors to read, I was fascinated. I have always loved science and math, so this was not a surprise. I had gotten my Bachelor of Arts in Radio and Te..
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A Popular Bay Area News Anchor, An Exclusive Interview With Maria Medina
Q: How did your career start as news anchor? MM: I actually started delivering the news when I was in eighth grade! I love saying that. My first job was delivering newspapers … I actually wanted to be a newspaper reporter. But then a TV station had me on its morning show when I was in my last year of college and the anchors told me I should try TV news and offered me an internship … I was hooked. Sometimes I would spend 16 hours a day in the newsroom just ..
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She is a Self-Described Weather Fanatic. Meet Kari Hall, Meteorologist at NBC Bay Area News
Q: What made you decide to go in the field of telling the weather?KH: Weather always has been my passion. As a child, I would tell people I wanted to be a meteorologist and they would say…well, that’s different! I grew up in Louisville, KY where there’s extreme cold, lots of snow, flooding, drought, crazy storms, and extreme heat. The wide range of weather through the year raised my curiosity about why it occurs. I began reaching out to local meteorologist..
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She's an Emmy Award-Winning TV news Anchor & Reporter at ABC7/KGO-TV. Read More About Meet Dion Lim
Q: How did your career start as a news anchor?DL: By a stroke of pure luck! I had always wanted to be a reporter, then a network correspondent before the age of 30. This was the career path I had carved out in my head. But during my first on-air job in tiny Springfield, Massachusetts, (market 109) just a year into the job, somehow, my agent got a call the ABC station in Kansas City (market 33) and asked if I wanted to try anchoring. Having never anc..
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An Exclusive Interview With Vicky Nguyen, Senior Investigative and consumer Correspondent for NBC News
Q: Can you share a little history how it all began, starting with the experience of May 4, 1979?VN: My parents fled Vietnam as boat people when I was an infant. They wanted to escape Communism and provide opportunities for me, their only daughter, in the United States of America. After a harrowing journey to Malaysia, my family stayed in a refugee camp for more than year, then we were sponsored to America by a family and church community in Eugene, Oregon...
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She’s well known as a Leader in the Newsroom and Advocate for Women in Journalism. Meet Evening Anchor at NBC Bay Area News & Emmy Award Winning Journalist Jessica Aguirre
Q: What was your first job and how did it shape or influence you?JA: My first job was in a mall, I was working at a clothing store called “The Body shop.” I was a senior in high school, got involved in a ton of clubs, and was working too. I knew I really could not complain since I saw how hard my parents worked, so it taught me how to manage my time and to multitask.My parents also told me to be the best at whatever I did, so I was quickly the best sales c..
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A Bay Area Legend, Read Our Interview With Radio Broadcaster, Voice Talent & Radio Consultant Lissa Kreisler
Q: I see you majored in TV and journalism at San Jose State University … did you have any idea you were going to have a long career in radio broadcasting?LK: I had no idea I would have 40 years in radio broadcasting and not only that … but 40 years of Bay Area radio based in my hometown of San Jose. I’m not sure anyone can expect something as fabulous as that. In fact, I thought I could be in trouble my very first year when during Journalism 101 … the lat..
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Congenial, Upbeat, Professional, with a Flair for Comedy Meet Voice Over Actor & Radio Personality Kim Vestal
Q: You majored in Radio/TV Broadcasting at San Jose State University … did you have any idea you were going to have a long career in radio broadcasting?KV: I was drawn to radio as a kid—listening to Top 40 hits on a transistor radio during summer vacations at my grandparent’s avocado/citrus ranch in a remote part of Poway, CA outside of San Diego (KCBQ). It was the only entertainment. I think they only got a couple of channels on their small black and whit..
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A Veteran in the Bay Area Radio Industry, Meet Celeste Perry, Host KOFY TV & DJ 98.5 FM KFOX
Q: What was it like moving to the Bay Area from Honolulu?CP: I came to a different kind of paradise in San Francisco. While I love the beaches, the landscape and aloha spirit of the Islands, I wanted to try my luck in a major radio market. San Francisco was the perfect spot for me, and like Hawaii, the cost of living in San Francisco was high, so it immediately felt like home. Q: How did you get your first media job … as a chicken?CP: I was an unpaid inte..
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A Conversation with Jona Denz-Hamilton, 94.5 Bay FM Midday Air Personality
Q: When you were in high school, did you know you wanted to go into Radio Broadcasting as a career?JDH: I was fascinated with communication since I was a little tyke. My electrical engineer dad was always building some kind of magical radio-type device. By high school, I was in love with my guitar playing and listening to LOTS of FM radio. I started actually doing radio in college--a bit of fun that turned into an obsession, LOL!Q: How many years have you ..
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