Journalist-turned-news content creator Chris Vazquez on building a career in the creator economy
The MediaWise ambassador shares lessons on working with newsrooms, growing an audience and launching a creator career
Chris Vazquez didn’t set out to become a content creator. As a student, he loved English class. When a teacher suggested that students who enjoyed English should check out the school’s broadcast journalism program, he gave it a try — and quickly found his passion.
Producing TV news packages gave him what he described as “an adrenaline rush from chasing down sources, uncovering new information and figuring out how to synthesize it all in ways that felt digestible and creative.”
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