This was a digital-exclusive follow-up story after KNBC’s broadcast had covered the initial rescue of the teen live during our evening newscast some weeks before. I wrote the article based off coverage of a press conference at UCI Medical by one of our cameramen in the field as well as a wire report about the incident.

This was a story I wrote based off a script from one of KNBC’s reporters in the field as well as material such as the raw footage from a brief press conference held by the Orange County Fire Authority’s spokesperson. I wrote several stories like this throughout my internship, where I adapted a reporter’s script while adding additional reporting of my own to the digital story.

This is one of several stories I wrote off of a press release that was sent to KNBC, letting the public know of a noteworthy civic event taking place in the Los Angeles area. In this case, I used additional research on legendary L.A. food critic Jonathan Gold’s career to add to the story about an event being held for him near the site of one of his most famous story subjects.

Click below for a full list of stories I did during my internship for KNBC-TV Los Angeles from June-August 2018, where I covered notable general and breaking news events across the country’s second-biggest media market as well as top sports stories in the market, including LeBron James’ decision to join the Los Angeles Lakers in free agency that summer.

This was a breaking news story about an arrest made on a trespassing suspect during a busy Monday in which multiple campus-wide events were going on, bringing heavier-than-average foot traffic. We were able to quickly get quotes from campus safety officials to learn more about the arrest and get the story out to those who saw the arrest happen and wanted to learn more.

This was a story that I along with several Chimes colleagues quite literally stumbled onto on our way back from dinner one night. We were able to cover the story as it happened and get real-time pictures and quotes from campus safety officials on the scene as a campus-wide lockdown went into effect as a precaution. We updated this story as more information came throughout the night, and the story ended up on the 11pm KNBC-TV newscast that night.

For this story, I used public Los Angeles County government records to show how a new invasive species of mosquito was affecting the area surrounding Biola’s campus, and wove that data in with quotes from Biola students and officials who had been affected by an infestation of the mosquito in recent weeks. I also spoke with an L.A. County Vector Control official to better understand the history of this type of mosquito’s presence in the region.

I was alerted to this story thanks to the social media account of the local sheriff’s station, and found it newsworthy because the location where the child was found was just outside of Biola’s campus in an area where students walk and drive past every day. I sourced the story from those social media posts as well as quotes from the station’s public information officer on duty.