

TV broadcaster switches to ‘brand journalism’
Phoebe Chongchua Phoebe Chongchua is a veteran award-winning TV news anchor/reporter with more than 20 years of experience in journalism and broadcasting. She has interviewed legendary people including Walker Cronkite, Mother Teresa and Tony Gwynn, plus Hollywood celebrities such as Jane Seymour and Ed Harris. Today, Chongchua is passionate about her work as a multimedia brand journalist and marketing specialist. She's the host/reporter at PCIN.TV. After 15 years in TV news,


The queen of hyperlocal publishing
Julie Main Longtime publisher is a community newspaper expert While an increasing number of newspapers have come and gone, and many continue to seek the ever-elusive formula for popular content, Julie Main has stood at the helm of San Diego Community Newspaper Group (SDCNG) for more than a quarter century, maintaining readership with a steady serving of hyperlocal news. Her newspaper group covers San Diego’s most vibrant coastal areas with three community papers: La Jolla Vil


TV news veteran now hosts teambuilding events
Darlynne Reyes Menkin Extensive TV news career Darlynne Reyes Menkin is a longtime broadcast journalist who moved from Philadelphia to sunny San Diego in 1990. It was a job opportunity at KFMB-TV that allowed Darlynne the opportunity to move out west. She was in the television industry for more than 22 years and during that time she was a writer, producer, reporter and anchor. At one point, she was a news director at a cable television operation in North San Diego County. In


Award-winning journalist enjoys her freedom
Donna Ferguson From Motley Fool and Lovemoney to freelance Donna Ferguson is an award-winning freelance journalist in the United Kingdom who writes for The Guardian, the Sunday Times, the Times, The Mirror, The Mail on Sunday and The Telegraph. She regularly interviews celebrities and top business people for the national press and has won four awards in two years for her investigative work as a financial journalist, both online and in print. Ferguson explains how her career d


Adapting courses for evolving media landscape
Dean Nelson His students will help the media ‘figure it out’ Dean Nelson is the founder and director of the journalism program at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) in San Diego, a post he has held for 30 years. He is also the founder and director of the annual Writer's Symposium By The Sea, now in its 21st year. He has written off and on for the New York Times for 25 years, as well as for the Boston Globe, USA Today, San Diego Magazine, and several news sites. Nelson expl


Meet the Pros: Destined for Weird News
David Moye, a staff writer for HuffPost Weird News, demonstrates his unusual fashion sense by modeling a tie made out of wood. An interest in the strange David Moye is a journalist with 25 years of experience, most of it spent writing weird news. A staff writer for HuffPost Weird News, Moye’s stories have been stolen, borrowed, aggregated, linked to or blatantly plagiarized by some of the top media outlets in the world. Moye describes his long and twisted journey: A talent fo