MediaQuest

MediaQuest

An educational podcast for students on a quest to break into the media biz. Media professor, host, and broadcast journalist Laurilie Jackson talks with successful leaders in film, television, radio, journalism, public relations, and other mass media fields. Her guests inform and inspire students about their careers and roads to success.

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July 16, 2024 28 mins
ABC hit series Modern Family producer Sally Young has an inspiring story of her journey to Hollywood. After college and three years at an advertising agency, Sally left her suburban Detroit hometown in 1975 to pursue a career in entertainment in Los Angeles. Her first job was typing scripts for the TV series "Maude" at Norman Lear's company. After three years and working on five of his other hit shows, she moved to ABC Network, whe...
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Jeff Hudson is a six-time Emmy-nominated television producer and entertainment executive. He won the Emmy for Best Informative Talk Show in 2010 for the daytime medical series The Doctors, where he served as supervising producer, senior-supervising producer & executive producer during the first eight seasons of its run. Most recently, he was a consulting executive during the development phase of TNT’s Chasing the Cure and executive...
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Dan McGrath is an iconic on-air personality in the Coachella Valley. He is in his 47th year of working in radio, and television, doing voiceovers and emceeing events. The last 24 years, have been in Southern California. His long-time career includes working at Entercom's KEZN 103.1 Sunny FM/Palm Springs. He's worked in entertainment programming and as a morning host of "Coffee with Dan McGrath." During his career, he worked with Di...
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Brooke Beare is an Emmy-winning journalist and government communicator. After graduating cum laude from the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, Brooke began her broadcast journalism career at two NBC affiliates in Texas. During that time, she was fortunate enough to interview Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and a number of governors, and cover the breakup of the Space S...
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November 17, 2022 26 mins
Mike Mozingo is an on-air personality at Alpha Media in Palm Springs, California. Mike found his passion for radio after working for the Geek Squad at Best Buy. He took some media classes at College of the Desert and soon landed himself an internship and a full-time job as an on-air personality and assistant program director. Mike won many national awards during his studies at COD. You can listen to Mike weekday mornings on KNWZ, m...
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Julie Buehler hosted "Buehler's Day Off," and became the first woman to host prime-time sports talk radio in California history. She was the first female sports director for NBC Palm Springs. Featured on NFL Films, ESPN, Fox Sports & more. After more than a decade of telling great sports storied, Julie retired from the media and now help businesses tell their stories.
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Maggie Downs is the award-winning author of the travel memoir, Braver Than You Think: Around the World on the Trip of My (Mother’s) Lifetime. Her writing has appeared in national and international publications, such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Travel + Leisure, BBC Travel, and Afar, among others, while her essays have been widely anthologized in Best Women's Travel Writing, True Stories From the World's Best Writers...
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Julie Makinen is Executive Editor of The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California (part of the USA Today Network). In addition, she serves as State Editor-California. Julie has more than two decades of experience as a writer, editor, innovator, and foreign correspondent for publications including the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and International New York Times. She has reported from countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Nort...
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May 19, 2021 16 mins
Forty-year broadcast veteran Ken Vincent worked in both public and commercial radio, most noted for his work at National Public Radio, NPR, where he worked as a news reporter, local program host, producer, announcer, editor, and program engineer. One of Ken's first big stories to cover was the volcanic eruption of Mt. St. Helen's back in 1981, that story actually won him awards, took him to Washington, D.C., and eventually got him ...
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Syndicated radio host John Tesh and Executive Producer and Vice-President of The TeshMedia Group, Scott Meyers share about their journey to success. The John Tesh Radio Show-Intelligence For Your Life reaches 9 million listeners each week around the world. John and Scott are both hard-working, extremely talented, and are not afraid to take a risk. Their advice to students wanting to break into the radio business is so valuable. Joh...
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Kim Waltrip is a producer and director. She's created dozens of movies over the years including "7 Days to Vegas," "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby" Him, Her and Them, starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Viola Davis and William Hurt. "Hit and Run starring Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, Tom Arnold and Bradley Cooper, just to name a few. She started her career as a model who lived in Paris, Milan, Cannes, Munich, and Zurich. Her...
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Gary Kott is an American television and advertising writer and artist. He was a writer and supervising producer for The Cosby Show, the 1980s hit NBC situational comedy ranked as the most popular family comedy of the decade. Gary worked on the show during its five consecutive years of number one ratings. Gary also wrote many commercials, pilots, screenplays, and other TV shows including Fame, Remington Steele, Hotel, and The White ...

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Mike Hatton is an actor known for his role in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture Green Book. Hatton also starred in a handful of independent films including 6:30, On Bloody Sunday, and Shoot the Hero. Mike has worn many hats in the media field, he acts writes, directs, and produces. He is hardworking, talented, funny, and his sarcastic style makes for unique performance on and off the screen.

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Karen Devine is a television news anchor and investigative reporter for the ABC affiliate KESQ in Palm Springs, California. She was recognized by the National Academy of Television, Arts, and Sciences for her 25 plus years as a broadcast journalist. Karen has won several Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards. She covered big stories including the deaths of former Congressman Sonny Bono, President Gerald Ford, entertainer Frank Sinatra, ...
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April 22, 2021 28 mins
Journalist and educator Rich Hanley shares about his long career in media. He worked as a reporter for Time Magazine in New York and a journalist for local, national, and global media for decades. Rich understands the importance of technology and how to tell a story on various platforms. Rich has produced, written, and directed several Emmy-nominated documentaries for CPTV and PBS and is now a professor of journalism at Quinnipiac ...
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April 21, 2021 37 secs
Media professor and former television journalist Laurilie Jackson interviews professionals in the mass media field in hopes of informing and inspiring students who want to break into the media biz. In each episode, she'll speak with industry leaders in film, television, radio, journalism, public relations, and more.
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