{"id":2050,"date":"2019-03-31T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2019-03-31T12:45:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T16:45:01","slug":"leap-to-the-top-for-tv-reporter-and-recent-grad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2019\/03\/31\/leap-to-the-top-for-tv-reporter-and-recent-grad\/","title":{"rendered":"Leap to the Top for TV Reporter and Recent Grad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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News12 anchor and reporter Jessica Cunnington (above, right) sharing her expertise with students from “Hunter News Now.” <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jumping from the nation\u2019s 183rd television news market to the No. 1 market in just one year is pretty much unheard of.
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But it\u2019s not impossible if you\u2019re Jessica Cunnington, now a News 12 anchor and reporter.
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Cunnington talked about that meteoric rise from her entry-level reporting job in Charlottesville, Va., to New York\u2019s News 12<\/a> with Prof. Sissel McCarthy\u2019s “Hunter News Now” students on March 27.
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After Cunnington graduated from the S.I. Newhouse School at Syracuse University in 2012, her goal was to be working as a reporter within six months somewhere on the East Coast.
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It didn\u2019t take long. By August of that year, she landed a job as a what\u2019s known as an MMJ (multimedia journalist) for CBS19 in Charlottesville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, she learned to report, write, shoot and edit all her own stories and within a year, she had the experience and show reel to make a big jump back to her hometown market, New York City.
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Cunnington shared her reporting and anchoring expertise while watching the second \u201cHunter News Now\u201d show of the semester and praised students for their storytelling.
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\u201cThe techniques you\u2019re learning here
will really help you
when you get your first job.\u201d <\/strong>

<\/p>\u2014 Jessica Cunnington, News12\ufeff<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe techniques you\u2019re learning here will really help you when you get your first job,\u201d Cunnington said. “My approach is to let the people you interview do the talking. Reporters don\u2019t need to talk as much as you think.\u201d
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Some of her more practical tips include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n