Melissa Colorado, general assignment reporter for @NBCNewYork WNBC, gives a behind-the-scenes look at local news coverage alongside photojournalist Luiz Braga.
Most local news reporters conduct their own interviews, write their own scripts and do their own makeup. Photojournalists often shoot all the footage, edit the packages and transmit the footage back to the newsroom. Teams out in the field do a lot with just a camera, a laptop and a car full of supplies.
“There’s nothing like covering your own home,” said Melissa Colorado, general assignment reporter for NBC New York.
Asked why she works in local news, Colorado said, “It’s not a glamorous job. We don’t do it for the money. But we do it because we’re addicted to news, to the lifestyle, to never being in the same place every day. You never know who you’re going to talk to, you never know who you’re going to meet.
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