On Location at CNN, An Interview with Julia Chatterly

The Noise Around Us

WRITERS/REPORTERS: Lilah Richman, Semira Robinson, Naomi Lenchner, Kylie Sebastian, Lyla Tipton, Zadie Winthrop, Sammie Dostart-Meers, Ashley Grady, Patrick Lenihan and Joshua Santos. (FROM: Marin Academy, Tamalpais High, Menlo School, Redwood High, Sidwell Friends, San Domenico, IMG Academy, and Urban schools)

“In the summer of 1922, the tempo of the city approached hysteria,” said x, the protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, evoking a fresh urban vitality irresistible to ambitious young people like himself. It’s the same story today for most every dreamer coming to New York and other American cities in search of new opportunities and a new life. 

On Location at CNN: An Interview With CNN Reporter Zain Asher

WRITERS/REPORTERS: Lilah Richman, Semira Robinson, Naomi Lenchner, Kylie Sebastian, Lyla Tipton, Zadie Winthrop, Sammie Dostart-Meers, Ashley Grady, Patrick Lenihan and Joshua Santos. (FROM: Marin Academy, Tamalpais High, Menlo School, Redwood High, Sidwell Friends, San Domenico, IMG Academy, and Urban schools)

When you enter the offices of CNN New York, you are immediately greeted by a stunning palette of sleek blues, reds, silver, and turquoise. Reflective dark floors proceed along hallways filled with cameras, screens, and producers working away on the day’s headlines as they happen in real time. Conference rooms with playful names like “Hogwarts Express” and “Paddington Station” line the hallways between studios, where writers, producers, and editors work together to get to the heart of current events, or as it’s long been called, the scoop.

A FastForward Interview With the Anchor of ABC World News Tonight

REPORTERS: Kyle Austin, Kylar Flynn, Gigi Gonzalez, Simone Harper, Brandon Lopez, Jacqui Martin, Claire Mckechnie, Lauren Mckechnie, Samantha Michaels, Joshua Santos, Anna Silverman, Lilli Wanninger

As the anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight, David Muir is one of the most prominent and respected figures in broadcast journalism today.

During a visit to ABC News headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, we watched him from a glass hall above the set as he delivered the news to an unseen audience of millions. He may be the show’s on-camera anchor, but when the cameras are off his work continues. During commercial breaks, Muir read, typed notes and reacted to real-time developments with diligence and focus—not at all a guy who just reads a teleprompter. Producers and staffers updated Muir by the second, giving him that edge required in an age of social media and rapid-fire communication. Taking it all in, we couldn’t help but wonder what it takes to work in such a stressful yet thrilling profession. As the program ended we went down to the super-cool glass-and-skyscrapers ABC News set to chat with Muir and find out.