Perspectives on journalism interview series
As research for her “Introduction to Journalism: An Interactive Guide” online textbook, April has been interviewing professional journalists about why and how they got into the profession, their “pro tips” and lessons learned. This diverse group includes award-winners with experience in local, national and international coverage for television, radio and newspapers.
Hossam Aboul-Magd filming the Great Sphinx in Egypt. Courtesy: Hossam Aboul-Magd.
Hossam Aboul-Magd
Hossam Aboul-Magd is an award-winning filmmaker, director and director of photography based in Washington, D.C. Aboul-Magd has made films for National Geographic, Discovery, History, BBC, and CNN, among others. He started his own production company, Soura Films, in 2007 producing documentaries and TV shows in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Courtesy: Kathy Clark
Kathy Clark
Kathy Clark is the assistant news director for CBS 5 News in Phoenix, where she previously served as executive producer, and special projects producer. Clark has been an executive producer at SheKnows Media and spent four years producing the Arizona Highways Television travel series.
Clark has received 11 regional Emmy Awards and the 2011 George Foster Peabody Award for her work.
Anne Davenport producing an interview with Tom Hanks for the PBS NewsHour. Courtesy: Anne Davenport.
Anne Davenport
Anne Davenport is the award-winning senior deputy producer and arts and culture producer at the PBS NewsHour, where she has worked since 2000. Prior to that she was a political producer for ABC News and general producer for CBS News. Davenport began her career as a one-man band for an NBC affiliate in Iowa.
Antonia Gonzales photo by Shannon Swain.
Antonia Gonzales
Antonia Gonzales is a member of the Navajo Nation and anchor and producer of the award-winning “National Native News,” nationally syndicated radio program airing on public radio stations in the U.S. and Canada. She also has reported for New Mexico PBS and worked as a one-woman-band television reporter for the CBS affiliate in Southeastern New Mexico.
Mark Lodato photo by Gage Skidmore.
Mark Lodato
Mark Lodato is associate dean of the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and associate general manager of Arizona PBS at Arizona State University. Lodato supervises the school's national-award-winning television newscast, "Cronkite News," which airs weeknights on KAET-TV, Arizona PBS. Lodato joined the Cronkite School in 2006 after working for 16 years as a reporter and anchor for television stations in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Phoenix and Ft. Myers, Florida. He earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a master's degree in higher education administration from ASU.
Courtesy: Morgan Loew
Morgan Loew
Morgan Loew is an investigative reporter at CBS 5 News and has reported on the invasion of Iraq, vigilantism and human trafficking along the U.S./Mexico border and Maricopa County's former Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Loew's work has been aired by CBS News, CNN, NBC News, MSNBC and NPR.
Loew is the recipient of 11 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards, and two regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for investigative reporting.
Sandy Petrykowski (right) interviews actor Hugh Bonneville. Courtesy: Sandy Petrykowski.
Sandy Petrykowski
Sandy Petrykowski is a writer, producer, reporter, editor and cameraperson currently working for the PBS program "Washington Week." She has worked with ABC News, CNN, Al Jazeera English, The Discovery Channel, the PBS NewsHour and NPR. While based in Egypt she oversaw many international productions as Bureau Chief for National Geographic. Petrykowski received an Emmy Award for her work with ABC News, and a National Headliner Award for the CNN Presents Film “Egypt: A Test Case for Democracy.”
Courtesy: Isaac Salazar.
Isaac Salazar
Isaac Salazar is a video journalist who has worked for the CBS affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, the NBC affiliate KVOA in Tucson, Arizona, and for ABC 15 in Phoenix. He has been recognized for his outstanding editing and video journalism with an Emmy, multiple Associated Press awards and a 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award.
Caitlin Schmidt receiving the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona’s STAR Award. Photo by April Brown.
Caitlin Schmidt
Caitlin Schmidt is the government watchdog and sports investigative reporter at the Arizona Daily Star. Schmidt has uncovered corruption within the Tucson Police Department and Pima County Sheriff’s Department, and wrote dozens of stories about law enforcement officers accused of serious misconduct. She has received numerous awards for her work including a 2018 STAR Award from the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona and one from the Arizona Press Club for her tenacious reporting on allegations of sexual and domestic abuse involving University of Arizona athletes and coaches.
Melissa Sevigny (right) interviewing Andrew Hostad in 2016. Photo by by George Jozens, USFS Coconino National Forest.
Melissa Sevigny
Melissa Sevigny is the science and technology reporter for KNAU, Arizona Public Radio and is the author of two books,1 "Mythical River: Chasing the Mirage of New Water in the American Southwest" and "Under Desert Skies: How Tucson Mapped the Way to the Moon and Planets."
Courtesy: PBS NewsHour
Judy Woodruff
Judy Woodruff is the Anchor and Managing Editor of the PBS NewsHour. She was NBC's White House correspondent from 1977 - 1982, served as a correspondent and anchor for CNN in the 1980s and 1990s before she moved to PBS.1 Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, serves on the boards of trustees of the Freedom Forum, the Newseum, the Duke Endowment and the Urban Institute. She is also the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Southern California Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism among many others.