I am an Associate Producer with ABC News Live in New York.

ABC News Live is ABC News’ streaming channel, so instead of broadcasting on cable, my show airs on all your streaming devices - Hulu, Disney+, Roku and Samsung channels, etc.

As an Associate Producer, my main role is editing visual elements to put to broadcast. It’s my job to show our audience what’s going on in the news - whether that be something exciting and fun like Taylor Swift’s latest music or something tragic like a mass shooting. We choose the strongest visuals from a scene or event and put them together using Avid Media Composer, an editing software. Then I send those visuals to the playback server that puts them on TV!

I’ve also had opportunities to write and produce segments reporting on various newsworthy topics such as the war in Gaza, the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, the 2024 election, LGBTQ+ rights, climate change, and space exploration.

I am very passionate about journalism and love my job. It’s very demanding and stressful, but I am proud of the work my team and I do to share accurate and honest news. In this day and age when so many things are easily manipulated or falsely stated, journalists are crucial to making sure the public understands and receives truthful and factual information about the news that affects their everyday lives and others’.

My career path evolved a LOT after my internship. Digital marketing is wildly different from journalism, but there are certainly some aspects that intertwine. In both fields, we want to make sure we are showing audiences the most important images and sharing the most relevant information about a story. Event planning is, in different ways, also important to journalism. As a streaming channel, ABC News Live is always preparing for live events such as press conferences, congressional hearings, and international events. With event planning, you should always have backup plans in case something doesn't work out or goes wrong. Broadcast journalism is similar! Breaking news can happen at a moment's notice and completely throw previously-organized plans out the window, so my team and I need to be ready to react accordingly when news breaks. We have plans for things like this - making sure that when something happens, we are putting together voices and elements as fast as possible, all while gathering incoming and important information.

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