In 2018, I got an opportunity to work closely with Newsy’s prime-time news show team on their two-week reporting journey to Seoul as a local fixer. As the first summit between the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and President Trump was approaching, the Newsy team wanted to report from South Korea, getting stories on North Korean defectors, possible economic revitalization of the North and what South Koreans think about the new wave of talks among the two Koreans and the US.
As a fixer, I scheduled all the interviews and pitched the story on massacre victims of the Korean War. South Korean police engaged in an organized mass killings of their own citizens labelled as left-leaning, and the Newsy team got to interview a survivor and his family, who had been stigmatized until the democratization of 1987.
The executive producer and the anchor, Matt Simon and Chance Seales, both really liked the work and wanted me to be onboard with his team the next year at Newsy’s new Chicago station as production assistant. There, I worked on a few explainers on how income inequality affects children of the next generation, dragging down their college graduation rate and lowering prospects for upward mobility.
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