Where Ya At? SDSU's Journalism and Media Studies podcast

Josh Suchon
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Where Ya At? SDSU's Journalism and Media Studies podcast

A podcast celebrating the work of San Diego State University alumni working in various Communications fields and inspiring the current students to achieve their career goals. Hosted by SDSU alum Josh Suchon.

  1. Episode 58 -- Howard Stutz

    2 DAYS AGO

    Episode 58 -- Howard Stutz

    Howard Stutz (1979-82) is a Senior Reporter who covers gaming, tourism, cannabis and sports business for The Nevada Independent, a revolutionary news site, a 501c3 nonprofit committed to transparent journalism.In this week's episode, Stutz provides the back story of how he and his colleagues at The Las Vegas Review-Journal discovered the paper's new owner was Sheldon Adelson's family in 2016, why the family initially wanted it to be a secret, why it was in the public's interest to know the tr...

    47 min
  2. Episode 57 -- Nina Garin

    NOV 6

    Episode 57 -- Nina Garin

    Nina Garin ('97) is a former Arts and Entertainment reporter/editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune and KPBS who is now the Associate Director of Marketing and Communications for The Old Globe theatre.She got her start at The Daily Aztec and shared stories in this week's podcast about press junkets to New York and interviewing Madonna as a student journalist. Then how she got hired at the U-T, writing about the local music scene, and how some of her favorite stories were "a day in the life" of...

    41 min
  3. Episode 56 -- Eric Winter

    OCT 30

    Episode 56 -- Eric Winter

    Eric Winter (1990-94) is the President and Chief Operating Officer of TrillerTV, the latest stop in a decorated career where he's become one of the most successful sports business executives in the country.In this week's podcast, we trace Eric's unique journey that started as an Africana Studies major and Daily Aztec sportswriter. Then how the connection he made as a student with former SDSU Senior Women's Administrator Jayne Hancock led to a job working for her at DIRECTV, which was the spri...

    54 min
  4. Episode 55 -- Patrick Green

    OCT 23

    Episode 55 -- Patrick Green

    Patrick Green (1993-97) is a multi-faceted writer/director/producer who tells inspiring and thought-provoking stories from the inside-out. His films have played at over 100+ film festivals across the globe and are now streaming on Amazon Prime, Tubi, and Roku. In this week's podcast, Patrick tells the story of how stories begin. In particular, the story of how driving through LA in the early stages of Covid eventually led to his debut feature film, “Sincerely, Los Angeles," a colorful an...

    58 min
  5. Episode 54 -- Kelly Hillock

    OCT 16

    Episode 54 -- Kelly Hillock

    Kelly Hillock (2012-16) is the content marketing manager for National Funding, where she writes and edits a variety of communications, including articles for small business owners.A second generation Aztec, Kelly shares the story of how SDSU chose her, how long she wanted to be a writer, choosing Public Relations as a major, still spending her entire collegiate years working for the student newspaper, and the various jobs she took while navigating which direction to pursue as a professional.K...

    30 min
  6. Episode 53 -- Tim Grenda

    OCT 9

    Episode 53 -- Tim Grenda

    Tim Grenda (1992-94) is a former newspaper reporter who went to law school on the recommendation of courtroom lawyers, and is now a Content Strategist, Search Engine Optimization Manager for SDSU's Global Campus.Grenda reflects on how he landed interviews with so many big name entertainers while a college student, including the time he was interviewing Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats and learned Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was dead before the news went public. After college, he covered the co...

    42 min
  7. Episode 52 -- Gasia Mikaelian

    OCT 2

    Episode 52 -- Gasia Mikaelian

    Gasia Mikaelian (1995-97) has worked for KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005 and is currently an anchor for Mornings on 2 from 7-10 am and the Fox 2 News at Noon. Her TV reporting career started as an intern at KFMB in San Diego, then went from Yuma, AZ to Huntsville, AL, back to San Diego, then Houston, before she landed her dream job back in her home region. In this week's episode, Gasia describes the culture of a morning newsroom, advice for demo reels, mastering how to...

    1h 4m
  8. Episode 51 -- Kayla Jimenez

    SEP 25

    Episode 51 -- Kayla Jimenez

    Kayla Jimenez (2015-17) is an award-winning national correspondent for USA TODAY. She specializes in reporting on the American education system, including recent stories about the decline of school buses and if cell phones should be banned in schools. She formerly covered education for The Mercury News, East Bay Times and Voice of San Diego. In this week's "Where Ya At?" episode, Kayla details some of the classes at SDSU and stories at The Daily Aztec that helped her prepare for a Journa...

    30 min
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A podcast celebrating the work of San Diego State University alumni working in various Communications fields and inspiring the current students to achieve their career goals. Hosted by SDSU alum Josh Suchon.

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