SEASON 2, EPISODE 41. Branding the Story, Liberty Zabala, Reporter & Weather Anchor, FOX 5 San Diego
Description
Jayzen is excited to welcome Liberty Zabala to the show. As a seasoned reporter and television anchor, Liberty brings her amazing personal brand to every story. From interviewing Oprah to covering mass tragedies, Liberty has an incredible career story that has earned her four Emmy awards.
Liberty is a graduate of the "FBI Citizens Academy" at the FBI San Diego Field Office during Spring 2019. Liberty is currently on the Dean's List at American Military University while pursuing her Master of Arts in Homeland Security with a concentration in Counterterrorism.
Guest Bio
Liberty Zabala
Reporter & Weather Anchor, FOX 5 San Diego
Liberty Zabala is a 4x Emmy-winning Reporter & Weather Anchor for FOX 5 San Diego
She was awarded the Vada and Colonel Barney Oldfield National Security Reporting Fellowship by the Radio Television Digital News Foundation for her work covering Marines, sailors, active duty service members and veterans in the nation's largest military town, San Diego.
Some of her most memorable stories include leading breaking news coverage of the Central American immigration crisis, covering devastating firestorms that burned across San Diego County, covering the San Bernardino terrorist attacks and most recently, the Las Vegas mass shooting. Her coverage also earned two San Diego Press Club awards.
In November 2016, Liberty was honored as one of 100 Comcast NBCUniversal employees selected from across the country to take part in (Morning Joe) Mika Brzezinski's "Know Your Value" program in association with MSNBC. Prior to that, she was one of four reporter trainees selected from across the country for the NBC Reporter Development Program.
Under the program, she went through intensive multimedia training workshops alongside NBCUniversal's top media executives, talent and coaches at NBC 5 Dallas, NBC 10 Philadelphia, and NBC 4 New York under the direction of The Poynter Institute's Al Tompkins.
She has conducted several high profile interviews including presidential candidates Rand Paul, Ron Paul & Newt Gingrich, Senator Kamala Harris, 37th Commandant of the Marine Corps General Robert B. Neller, world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, comic creator Stan Lee and media mogul Oprah.
She is a graduate of California State University, Northridge with a degree in journalism and collateral in political science with an emphasis in international relations.
She is a dedicated member of Asian American Journalists Association where she served as a board director for the Los Angeles chapter and currently serves the San Diego chapter as president.
Liberty is a graduate of the "FBI Citizens Academy" at the FBI San Diego Field Office during Spring 2019. Liberty is currently on the Dean's List at American Military University while pursuing her Master of Arts in Homeland Security with a concentration in Counterterrorism.
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