Experience

If you ask my friends and family, I’ve been a journalist my whole life. I mean since I started talking, I was asking questions, wanting to know Who is that? What are they doing? Why would they want to that? How is it happening? those types of things. Then I would go back and report what I found out to those around me.

When I was in high school, my father gave me some great advice. He said “find something you love to do and if they pay you for it, that’s a bonus and you won’t feel like you worked a day in your life”. However, my challenge was I liked to talk, watch tv, and listen to the radio. Then I found out I could go to college and major in Communications focusing on Radio, Television and Film, and the rest as they say is history.

Going in as a declared major from day 1 – I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with a concentration in Radio/TV/Film from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. One of the reasons I chose Marist was it’s outstanding internship program. That paid off as I did a summer internship at the ABC affiliate in Connecticut and by the end of my time there, was working as the weekend assignment editor before heading back to school. Then that fall I interned in the news department at a local radio station and I was hooked. They offered me a job my spring semester my senior year, and I took it. I was able to complete my degree, get internship credits and have a job before I graduated.

I worked for the Dyson Radio Group at WEOK/WCZX/WPDH for a little over 3 years, before the snow got to me and I packed up and moved south to sunny Orlando, Florida. There I worked for Cox Media at WDBO and Star 94.5, and filled in doing news on the other stations in the cluster. I took a brief break from news and went into the full-time ministry for 2.5 years before answering the calling to return to news and work at both Cox’s radio cluster and their TV affiliate WFTV.

After 7 years, I moved to Atlanta, GA to take a position at CNN’s World Headquarters. There I worked as an anchor and editor at the CNNRadio Network. During my tenure there I also helped create CNNin60 (a 60 radio newscast with top stories of the day) Idol Chatter (a podcast focused on American Idol), and Hollywood Hangover (a digital podcast focused on entertainment news. I also covered various other stories and conducted countless interviews with newsmakers.

After the network decided to shutter the radio division, I went on to co-anchor morning news on Atlanta’s first All-news radio station, before returning to the Cox media family as an anchor and reporter for Atlanta’s Morning News.

In addition to the above I have started my own media consulting company, Wright Choice Media and created Newz You Can Use, using my extensive background to cull, write and deliver updates, interviews and stories of interest.