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Doug Aiken (‘99) is the sports information director for Chapman University. Aiken has spearheaded the expansion of the Panthers media exposure, via Chapman Radio, website presence, etc. Aiken is also an adjunct professor in the public relations and advertising program.

Scotty Anderson (‘03) is an Emmy-winning technical director at KTLA-TV, the Tribune-owned CW affiliate in Los Angeles. Prior to KTLA, Anderson worked at the Fox News Channel in New York, and at network affiliates in Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California, where he also won Emmy Awards for technical direction.

Adam Arena (’07) is presently on tour with the Walking with Dinosaurs, the acclaimed BBC documentary turned international tour. Arena provides the technical-direction for the tour, putting the show up on the big screen for the live audience. He did the same for two years for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Arena honed some of those production skills via an internship with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Sam Argier (’04) is a weather anchor and certified meteorologist with KIRO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle, Washington. Previously, Argier was the chief meteorologist at KMIR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Palm Desert, California.

Jaclyn Austin (’05) is working as a location producer for the syndicated show The Doctors, a fast-growing talk/entertainment show from the producers of Dr. Phil. Austin has worked steadily since graduation, working her way up from production assistant to various producer roles with MTV/VH1 including the MTV Movie Awards, MTV Video Awards, Big in ’07, 08 etc.

Beth Belew (’02) is working as a segment producer with Mike Mathis Productions’ Renovation Nation, on Discovery Networks’ Planet Green. In reality television, she has worked as a segment producer on VH1’s Rock of Love, coordinating producer on IFC’s The Whitest Kids You Know, and associate producer on Comedy Channel’s Jamie Kennedy Show.

Jaz “Buzz’ Berger (’03) is a freelance producer who has worked for a who’s who of entertainment and reality networks including Bunim/Murray Productions, E! Networks, VH1, MTV, 10 X 10 Entertainment, Reveille Studios, LLC. etc. When Berger isn’t pitching his own shows, he’s worked on long-running reality shows including Road Rules and Real World.

Breanna Borries (’07) is an anchor/reporter at KVLY-11, the NBC affiliate, and KX4 the CBS affiliate in Fargo, North Dakota. She covers the education beat for Valley News Live in the Fargo/Moorhead area which has three universities.

Heather Capizzi, (’05) is the supervisor of entertainment for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Capizzi parlayed her part-time job as a Strike-Force Girl with the Angels into a full-time job upon graduation, merging her knowledge of media and love of sports and sports as entertainment. Today Capizzi supervises a staff of over 100, including that same Strike-Force crew to which she used to belong.

Lacee Collins (‘01) is a reporter-producer with Fox Sports Arizona. Prior to Fox, Collins worked at the NBC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona, KVOA-TV where she was Tucson’s only female sports anchor. She launched her career at the ABC affiliate in Yuma, Arizona.

David Compton (’06) is a director in Palm Desert, California, at KMIR-TV, the NBC affiliate. Previously, Compton plied his production skills in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Bethany Crouch (’04) is an anchor and reporter at Fox40 the Fox affiliate in Sacramento. Couch has solidified her relationship with the community through the Internet, with her “On the Move with Bethany Crouch” blog on the Fox40 website. Prior to Sacramento, Crouch called Eastern Washington home where she produced and co-anchored a dual market morning newscast for CBS affiliates KEPR and KIMA. Crouch launched her TV news career in Rapid City, South Dakota.

John-David Currey (’98) is the Vice President of On-Air Promotions NBC network. (See adjunct faculty.)

Stephanie Domurat (’08) is living and working in Big Sky Country, at KULR-TV in Billings, Montana as a reporter/anchor. Recently, Domurat was the only TV reporter in a small hotel room when Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Billings and stopped into the room to check election results.

John Duber (‘00) is a multiple-Emmy-winning director with the Fox News Channel. Duber directs several hours of live programming daily for FNC, the #1 cable news network in the USA. Prior to Fox, Duber worked at network affiliates in Phoenix, Arizona and San Diego, California.

Chelsea Edwards (’07) is an assignment manager with Fox News Channel’s Los Angeles bureau. Before and simultaneously with FNC, Edwards was the overnight reporter in the Los Angeles bureau of City News Service where she covered the Los Angeles Police Department.

Alex Gilliland (’08) is living in Sacramento, California, working as a morning-show line-producer at the Fox affiliate, KTXL-TV. Gilliland first parlayed her internship at Orange County’s only live news program, Daybreak OC, into a full-time job as the show’s associate producer and then its’ line producer.

Liesel Hlista (’05) moved to Los Angeles to pursue entertainment hosting, modeling and acting. Hlista has been cast in several national commercials and ad campaigns for companies such as Southwest Airlines, Scope Mouthwash, Converse Shoes and Ashley Furniture. She was also cast in a travel show pilot titled Destination Food a year after graduation. She is currently a travel show hostess for Travel Wish TV and is working on a pilot for an entertainment news show called Hollywood Now.

Rachel Hoffenberg (’04) is a producer with High Noon Entertainment’s My First Place, a reality show on Scripps Networks’ Home & Garden television or HGT. Hoffenberg’s switched to producing for the moment, after successful stints as anchor reporter in Helena, Montana, and a weather anchor/reporter, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Robbie Hunt (’05) is a video journalist with the KVVU-Fox 5, the Fox affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada. Previously, Hunt honed his cameraman skills at KMIR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Palm Desert, California.

Madelyn Jarrett (’07) is living and working in Big Sky Country, at KULR-TV in Billings, Montana as a reporter and anchor.

Sherry Layne (’07) landed a job as a wardrobe assistant on the CBS series Cane within a month of graduating.

Miles Leicher (’07) is a writer’s assistant with the award-winning Real Time with Bill Maher, on HBO Television. His prior assignments include videographer with the long-running reality show Big Brother.

Jeff Levering (’05) is the play-by-play announcer for Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, the Los Angeles Angeles Angels minor-league affiliate. Levering also worked as a producer/reporter at Fox Sports.

Brit Liggett (’07) is living and working in Manhattan as a freelance producer after working as an associate video producer for SPRIG.com, which is owned by the Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive, and is an online eco-friendly magazine.

Jason Martinez (’01) is an anchor/reporter at KTLA-TV, the Tribune-owned CW affiliate in Los Angeles. Prior to KTLA, Martinez worked for the Walt Disney Company and ABC News. He moved from production-assistant role at KABC-TV into an anchor-reporter position at the ABC O&O in Toledo, Ohio. Martinez swiftly moved onto the ABC O&O in Fresno, California.

Michelle Pulfrey, (‘98) has been working for the same employer—the same show—from the day she graduated. Pulfrey is a senior producer for Good Day LA, the award-winning morning show for the Fox-owned Los Angeles affiliate Channel 11. Pulfrey’s regular assignments include producing the “Style File” segment with Good Day co-host Jillian Barberie and daily set visits and live spots.

Ian Reitz (’04) is a reporter/anchor for KGUN 9, the ABC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona. Reitz co-anchors Good morning Tucson, and KGUN 9 On Your Side. Prior to Tucson, Reitz reported and anchored the news at KTSM-TV in El Paso, Texas, where reporting feats like providing viewers with a rare glimpse inside the Border Patrol Academy earned him a first-place award from the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters.

Lauren Richardson (’03) is the Morning “Fun/Live” Reporter at Fox25, the Fox affiliate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Richardson came to FOX 25 Morning News after a year working at WCYB-TV in Bristol, Virginia. She started her television career in Rapid City South Dakota. Kelli Stavast (‘02) is a broadcast sports reporter/host, currently serving as motorsports reporter for NBC Sports, ABC Sports and SPEED. Stavast is the pit reporter for NBC and SPEED’s coverage of Championship Off Road Racing (CORR), as well as NBC and ABC’s coverage of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). She is also a reporter for NBC’s network coverage of the Detroit Auto Show and Baja 1000.

Megan Terlecky (’06) is the main anchor at KJCT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Grand Junction, Colorado. Previously, Terlecky was an award-winning journalist in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she garnered much viewer and industry praise for her coverage of the Iowa Caucuses.

Kevin Tokunaga (‘05) is presently on tour with the rock band AC/DC, providing broadcast-engineering and other production expertise for the international tour of the legendary rock band. Tokunaga also won several local Emmy’s for technical direction at XETV-CH 6, then the Fox affiliate in San Diego, California. He has worked on numerous other big-venue productions, including “Walking with Dinosaurs.”

Spencer Washburn (’03) is a reporter and anchor at KFMB-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Diego, California. Washburn lunched his career in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and then Bakersfield, California.

Kelsey Watts (’07) is working as a reporter-producer with KTVZ NewsChannel 21, the #1 station and NBC affiliate in Bend, Oregon.

Emily Wilson (’07) is living in Los Angeles and working as both an actress and broadcast talent, and is represented by the Creative Artists Agency. In 2006, Wilson literally beat out thousands of college journalists to take down the $25,000 first prize in KTLA-TV’s College Audition competition. Among other venues, you can find Wilson in a recurring role on the new Beverly Hills 90201.

Molly Wilson (’07) is now executive assistant to the Vice President of Current Programs at Warner Bros. Television. She has also worked as a development assistant at Tom Hanks’ Playtone Pictures, and at Herzog & Company creating behind the scenes DVDs and electronic press kits for shows like Lost and Hannah Montana and feature films like Pirates of the Caribbean and the most recent Indiana Jones installment.