BROADCAST JOURNALISM
I've explored the field with anchoring experience, introduction videos, and other visual presentations. This past summer, while attending the Asian American Journalists Association JCamp program in Austin, I got to do both anchoring and live broadcast at KXAN, an NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas.
I'm also a guest correspondent for our school's broadcast program,
ETV (Emmaus TV) — I direct, edit, and produce all my own packages for the show.
Lastly, I also restarted The Stinger's podcast department for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
ETV Experience
As much as I love our tiny print newsroom of The Stinger, I'm just as fascinated and engaged by our school's broadcast department. Scheduling conflicts forced me to have to choose between journalism and broadcast classes, and our school's newspaper and broadcast programs are not well-integrated.
Still, I made it a point to contribute to ETV, bringing a unique perspective as a traditional print writer — something no one else at ETV has. In turn, I've also learned a lot from that staff, and I have so much respect for the incredible work they do.
I work with the broadcast team, including director Anna Smith, to edit scripts, lead-ins, and visuals for my segments. Photo by Gabe Meyers.
See below for a brief segment I produced about the affects of recent deportation orders on our local community. I wrote the story and script for this segment as well as working with the ETV studio to film a lead-in for it.
Podcasting
The last podcast The Stinger released was during the pandemic in 2021, before I joined staff. Since then, I've started a new podcast called "The Stinger Speaks," where two other editors and I discuss a variety of topics every week.
These segments often tie back into our print stories to ensure a whole, cohesive product when we produce multimedia packages.
Check out a recent segment on the importance of student press freedom, in honor of SPLC's Student Press Freedom Week. I recorded and edited this episode.
KXAN Experience
I've explored the field with anchoring experience, live reporting, and other visual presentations. This past summer, while attending the Asian American Journalists Association JCamp program in Austin, I got to do both anchoring and live broadcast at KXAN, an NBC affiliate in Austin, Texas.
Working in the actual television studio, I learned from professional anchors how best to deliver a story, then got to do it live myself.
For the live broadcast, I was given a series of facts at a two-minute mock press conference led by Aimee Cho, an Emmy-winning reporter, and given another minute to write a brief script. Here's the product of that exercise:
Lastly, check out my one-minute introduction video for JCamp — one of the elements of my application that got me into the competitive program!