Taylor Jung
Multimedia reporter in New York, She/they
About
Social justice multimedia reporter for NJ Spotlight News/NJ PBS. AAJA member, CJS grad. Eats cheetos with chopsticks.
Writing
A link to my profile page on NJ Spotlight News's website.
Colleagues, advocates work to engage new Black, people of color as candidates
They say Pride month is complicated this year amid both pro- and anti-LGBTQ measures
Concern that a wedge is being driven between Asian American community and other groups
Critics point out that social-justice bills are stalled, while measures that will effect people of color have no trouble reaching the State House floor
The problem is larger than what a state takeover can fix
Work Experience
• Beat focuses on New Jersey BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ and disability communities and the issues that matter to them.
• Source, pitch and report 2 original digital multimedia stories weekly, managing multiple assignments and deadlines.
• Expand our newsroom’s multimedia storytelling through new digital content on YouTube and TikTok.
• Collaborate with producers and reporters to research, pre-interview and report via print or photo.
• Volunteer on our companywide DEI council to create internal programs that increase diversity and inclusivity.
• Appeared on our TV show and on radio with WNYC’s All Thing Considered to share my stories.
• Managed assignment desk team. Sourced stories, scheduled interviews and coordinated shoots for packages, anchor
interviews and VOSOTs for anchor, six reporters and three photographers.
• Curated stories via an anti-racist, DEI lens to diversify audience and increase representation and engagement.
• Field produced packages, which entailed coordinating interviews, finding MoS (vox pop), setting up shots for cameras,
captured b-roll footage (photo and video).
• Produced social justice stories for TV reporters — interviewed sources, assisted with story arc and found b-roll.
• Selected photos, created graphics and uploaded on CMS for ~500 news and educational articles, including for breaking news stories.
• Created editorial strategy for launch of audio and video products and developed surveys and analytics for launch.
• Developed guidelines around audio, video, graphics, photos and copy across all news and educational products.
• Edited our editorial style guide to meet DEI goals and was nominated to a cross-team anti-racist standards committee.
• Co-led AAPI ERG group and co-founded a multiracial ERG group.
• Pitched, produced and edited timely platform-specific content for Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
• Managed analytics for social media; changed our strategy and content to be more personable to drive engagement.
• Cut TV news packages for web, social media and our OTT app on Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Uploaded videos, photos and written stories to our CMS, including breaking news stories.
• Produced a 6-minute feature package on Seabrook Farms, a company that fast became a safe haven for Japanese internees at the end of WWII. This story was nominated for a 2018 Mid-Atlantic Emmy.
• Pitched, researched, conducted pre-interviews and helping manage guests.
• Shot and edited daily MoS segments for air.
• Assisted reporters in the field by producing and shooting.
• Created social media posts for NJTV News's Instagram.
Education
• Reported on AAPI issues and Manhattan’s Chinatown via print, audio and photo.
• Finished 10,000-word capstone project inspired by a 6-min Mid-Atlantic Emmy-nominated TV story I produced for
Michael Hill at NJTV News and a 3-min piece I did for WNYC’s Morning Edition.
• Graduated a semester early after completing colloquium on perception of multiracial identity in the U.S.
• News editor and reporter for WNYC Radio 89.1 FM’s flagship news show, The Rundown.
• Additional coursework in journalism; accepted into photojournalism lab in 2016 and 2017 with Ron Haviv.