Ava

"as soon as that world of broadcast was available to me at Cal Poly, I dived right in."

"I have multiple positions that I fill in on."

"Live TV has a very certain...Live TV has a lot of adrenaline attached to it, so I think it's a very exciting job."

"People are gonna be mean to you. People are gonna comment on your appearance and say awful things to you, and you just gotta know that they've got way too much time on their hands and not enough important things to do, than comment on other people."

"Being out in the field is just, you get so much freedom and as long as you get your stuff done, you can pretty much work from anywhere."

"getting to know the market...learning the area takes so long"

"I really do enjoy being on tv. I really do think it's fun."

"A lot of the people who are really successful on camera grew up being theater kids."

"There's a job for everything and you know, nowadays a lot of those jobs are mixed into one."

"take advantage of those internships because those are so important. Especially if you wanna go into local news."

"It's your life and it's not their life and they don't know you. They're just someone who watches you from afar."

"Experiencing every aspect of the journalism world—print, radio, and television—made me valuable coming out of college."

"Transferring and especially being in college during Covid really taught me to utilize my time in person because that's definitely when I learned the most."