Hilda Gutierrez
Verified
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KNTV-TV (San Jose, CA),
WNBC-TV (New York, NY),
KNBC-TV (Los Angeles, CA),
WCAU-TV (Philadelphia, PA),
WMAQ-TV (Chicago, IL),
WRC-TV (Washington, DC),
KNSD-TV (San Diego, CA),
KXAS-TV (Fort Worth, TX),
WTVJ-TV (Miami, FL),
WVIT-TV (West Hartford, CT),
WBTS-TV (Boston, MA)
and
Covers:
Politics, immigration, crime, education, health, entertainment, sports, travel, food and dinning, beauty, and social matters
Anchor and award winning investigative reporter @nbcbayarea- UCLA graduate, optimist, skeptic, rationalist, believer of God, but only human.
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Associate Producer for a local newscast
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes
How is social media changing news?
It is becoming more immediate. Now anyone with a phone can be rapidly informed and can even stream live.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Clark Kent
What does it mean to be a journalist?
Being a journalist is having the responsibility to inform accurately, investigate and question injustice everywhere.
What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?
Clark Kent
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
I can be emailed about the information on a story and given a reason why it is news worthy
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
My phone all the time.
What's your favorite social network?
Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Diane Sawyer
Why did you become a journalist?
I am a news junkie. I love knowing a little about everything and telling stories to create some change.
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Investigating Sheriff brutality against inmates and visitors inside Men's Central Jail in Los Angeles.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
You have to be very passionate to succeed in this
When's the best time to pitch you?
Morning
What's the best pitch you ever got?
From direct victims or eye witnesses
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Just personal family dramas
What's your favorite drink?
Water
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
In the news studio
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Newsweek
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
That everything has to be extremely serious and politically correct
Would you like to take the Muck Rack Interview?
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