Maggie Cunningham graduated from UNO. After going around through different jobs, she finally decided KETV was her place to stay. She stayed with KETV for five years and finally realizing how demanding the job was, Cunningham felt it was time to move on. Cunningham even states she was ready to get out of the news industry when she did.
As the virus hit in March, Cunningham struggled to find new content to release to her audience that wasn’t related to COVID-19.
Jeremy Maskel graduated from Missouri and worked at a small local television station in Iowa. Two years later Maskel moved to Omaha to join KETV after he heard of someone resigned. Starting as a reporter, Maskel eventually worked his way to the top as a weekend and weekday anchor. For seven years Maskel held his job at KETV. Even at one point worked as a teacher at a high school while also working for KETV. After realizing how long and much he was working, he decided to leave KETV to teach, where he taught in the Ralston district before moving to Omaha public schools (OPS). Maskel also explained how working for a smaller district such as Ralston he had to work harder to get reporters to come to him for information. Now working at OPS, a larger district, he feels it’s easier to have reporters come to obtain information.
Someone asked what the best way to network was. Maskel gave some tips such as: do your research, find what interests you, and get out and meet people in your field. While Cunningham stated it’s imported to get involved in the community. She even explained how social media is a popular, fast-pace growing platform and to use those.
Listening to both Cunningham and Maskel stories were motivating and showed that having skills doesn’t leave you stuck in that one position forever and that we can gain skills and use them somewhere else such as they did in education.
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