![]() Like someone else might've said, "My job is to get my hair and makeup done, and sit at a desk, and have a camera pointed on me, and I talk to the camera." What's interesting about your answer is that you immediately went to the community and you said, "Things happen in an area, and then I'm the one to tell people about it." I think we lose track of what the role of media is. I would say, in a specific area or city, there are things that go on that affect people's lives, and I'm the one that tells an audience, tells a mass amount of people, and informs them of things that could affect their day to day, or could affect their families.īecause everyone would answer that a little differently. How would you explain your job to an alien? If an alien landed on the planet and said, "What is this job you have?" You have one of those jobs, Megan, that everyone knows what it is.īut when you say like, "Oh, I'm a news anchor." We just immediately know, whereas a lot of people are like, "Let me explain what I do." I give you Megan Mitchell on Making It in Broadcast Journalism. She sees it as her job to ensure that people who are often ignored get their voices heard. Because while she may be sweet, Megan is unflinching in her advocacy. By all accounts, this woman's made it, but making it isn't just about being on TV. Megan also happens to be gay, which maybe in this day and age doesn't seem like breaking news, but look, coming out to your inner circle is one thing, but being a public figure and a face in the media is another. She was the first journalist to break the standing rock reservations opposition to the Dakota access pipeline, sparking international outcry. It's because of the way in which she approaches the work of reporting. Meghan has also already racked up a list of at least a half a dozen regional broadcasting awards, including best TV news reporter by the NDBA, but it's not because she's a pretty face who's good on TV. She started out in Bismarck, North Dakota, but has since become a very familiar face on Channel 5, Cincinnati's NBC affiliate. ![]() A 2014 Emerson grad with a degree in broadcast journalism, Megan got an on air job so fast it'd make your head spin. It's really hard not to fall in love with Megan Mitchell. I'm your host in Emerson Alumni, Terri Trespicio and we've got 30 minutes. As far as we're concerned, if you're making something, you've made it. Making a living, making a difference, and sometimes making it up as they go along. You're about to meet Emersonian who's making it. Welcome to "Making It Big in 30 Minutes," a podcast for, by, and about the Emerson Community. And now it’s kind of morphed into one.What does it mean to make it big? Having money, fame, worldwide acclaim, climbing the corporate ladder, or crushing it in your business? One thing's for sure, there isn't just one way to do it. When I got to Cincinnati, I was like, What’s a way I can really bend the rules? And I to get an undercut, because you can see my anchor bob on the desk, but when I’m not there, I gotta be myself. It’s been really mind-blowing quite honestly. It’s been really nice to see that so many people either relate to it or have said, Hey, you’ve given me the courage to wear a pantsuit to the dance, or a lot of people say, You’ve give me the courage to get an undercut. so I thought, Maybe it would be fun to showcase that there’s someone in your own city, where we don’t necessarily have the resources or the role models of LGBTQ representation that the coasts have. When I was growing up, there were queer role models, but they all lived in L.A. What inspired you to make TikToks about being a queer newscaster? I started wearing suits about a year ago, and it’s funny because sometimes I’ll get mean comments about it, but once I posted it to TikTok, it’s all been really great feedback. The thing about local news is it’s pretty rigid in terms of gender roles you always see the female and the male sitting next to each other, and one of them is wearing a dress, and the other is wearing a suit, and you don’t see that mixed up a lot. So, in the beginning it was a lot of typical dresses. Obviously, it’s in the public eye, and they were very much like, You should probably be quiet about, just so you don’t lose out on jobs. One of the things my parents were concerned about was my career. I came out in college, I was going to school for broadcast journalism. ![]() How has your style evolved throughout your career? Occupation: Megan Mitchell, anchor and reporter, WLWT-TV TikTok star, Fresh, clean, tomboy
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