
WDRB-TV FOX 41 News Anchor/Reporter fluent in 4 languages
Louisville, Kentucky Area

WDRB-TV FOX 41 News Anchor/Reporter fluent in 4 languages
Louisville, Kentucky Area
To work as a TV reporter/anchor, using my 5+ years of professional TV news experience, fluency in 4 languages, and well-rounded education.
-investigative reporting
-Fluent in English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese Chinese. Some Taiwanese.
-Travel: 15 countries on 4 continents, 20 U.S. states.
-Technical: AP-ENPS, Newstar, iNews. Edit on BetaCam linear, Avid, Vortex, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere. Shoot on Digital, Beta.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
September 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Anchored Saturday and Sunday 10pm newscasts. Enterprised, reported, and wrote general assignment stories for evening and nightly newscasts. Daily live shots.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
October 2003 — September 2005 (2 years)
Enterprised, reported, and wrote general assignment stories on weekdays. Live breaking reports and packages on multiple stories a day for multiple newscasts. Produced and anchored episodes of "Inside East Texas," a weekly 30-min. community affairs show.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
October 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 1 month)
Enterprised, researched, wrote, and edited video for news and feature segments. Field produced for special projects (features). Reported on stories that aired.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
January 2002 — September 2002 (9 months)
Interviewed sources for packages that aired.Wrote anchor stories for nightly newscast.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
August 2001 — May 2002 (10 months)
Two seasons on weekly news magazine series, Video Workshop: studio interviews, hosting, packages.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
May 2001 — August 2001 (4 months)
Reported, wrote, tracked, and edited resume tape packages. Worked at Assignments Desk. Researched stories and mediated problems for Consumer Investigations. TelePrompTer operator for "Live at Five" and "Viva Houston."
N/A, Communications, 2000 — 2003
8 semester-courses in journalism with credit transferred to Rice University (where I got my degree)
B.A., Economics, 1999 — 2003
Talents: Rice University Shepherd School of Music (during high school, college: 1995-99) – opera state competition winner. Houston Ballet Academy (1989-2003) – completed pre-professional program, paid dancer for Nutcracker (2 years).
Asian American Journalists Association, Organization of Chinese Americans, Young Professionals Association of Louisville, Rice Alumni Volunteers for Admission, Rice University Chinese Alumni Association
· Honorable Mention, Best Reporter, Texas Associated Press Broadcasters Awards 2004
· Texas Association of Broadcasters Scholarship Winner 2002