A Viva Chan Update

Licensed Agent

New York Life Company

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

May 2007 – Present ( 4 months)

Personal planning for: life insurance needs, mortgage protection, estate conservation, college funding, IRA funding, retirement planning, charitable giving

Business planning for: buy-sell funding, deferred compensation, executive bonus, key person protection, voluntary payroll deduction programs, qualified plan funding: SEPs, Keoghs, 401(k)s, pensions

Products offered: Individual life insurance, fixed immediate & deferred annuities*, long term care insurance, health insurance**, disability income insurance**

*Certain annuities issued by New York Life Insurance and Annuity Corporation
**Products available through one or more carriers not affiliated with New York Life, dependent on carrier authorization and product availability in your state or locality

Recommend Viva’s work at New York Life Company

Licensed Personal Risk Consultant

State Farm Insurance & Financial Services

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

April 2005 – May 2007 (2 years 2 months)

Recommend Viva’s work at State Farm Insurance & Financial Services

Account Manager

PepsiCo Western Sales Division

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Food & Beverages industry)

August 2002 – March 2005 (2 years 8 months)

Recommend Viva’s work at PepsiCo Western Sales Division

Staff Writer & Research Director

American City Business Journals

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Newspapers industry)

May 1999 – August 2002 (3 years 4 months)

Recommend Viva’s work at American City Business Journals

Education

University of San Francisco

BA, Media, 1993 – 1996

Activities and Societies: Poynter Institute, Flori

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A Pat Bhoolsuwan Update

• • General Assignment Reporter/Fill-in Anchor at KTVN, CBS Affiliate Reno Nevada
• Past
• • Anchor/Reporter at KRCR TV ABC Affiliate Redding, California
  • News Writer/Producer at KRON-TV, Former NBC Affiliate, San Francisco, Calfiornia
• Education
• • University of San Francisco
• Connections

• 42 connections

• Industry

• Broadcast Media

• Websites
• • My Company
  • Asian American Journalists
• Public Profile
• http://www.linkedin.com/pub/2/8a3/153

Experience

General Assignment Reporter/Fill-in Anchor

KTVN, CBS Affiliate Reno Nevada

(Broadcast Media industry)

July 2007 – Present ( 2 months)

Reporter and Fill in Anchor for 2 hour morning show, multiple live shots daily. Cover variety of stories and breaking news including wildfires, crimes, and politics. Put together package for prime time news shows daily.

Recommend Patranya’s work at KTVN, CBS Affiliate Reno Nevada

Anchor/Reporter

KRCR TV ABC Affiliate Redding, California

(Broadcast Media industry)

April 2005 – June 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Anchor top rated morning show. Write, shoot, and edit stories for prime time news shows.

Recommend Patranya’s work at KRCR TV ABC Affiliate Redding, California

News Writer/Producer

KRON-TV, Former NBC Affiliate, San Francisco, Calfiornia

(Broadcast Media industry)

June 1999 – June 2005 (6 years 1 month)

News Writer for KRON-TV Prime Time Newscasts. Producer, Editor, and Update Anchor for CNN/MSNBC Cable News Updates.

Recommend Patranya’s work at KRON-TV, Former NBC Affiliate, San Francisco, Calfiornia

Education

University of San Francisco

Bachelor's Degree, Journalism and Poltical Science, 1994 – 1998

Graduated Cum Laude. International Student Scholar. Completed TV News Internships All 4 Years of College.

Activities and Societies: Student Government, Campus Newspaper, Honor Society

Top USF Journalism Grad in Recent Merger

By which I mean NBC11 newsperson Vicky Nguyen (USF 2000) has married Brian Dennis (USF 2001). She's a lovely bride, and he's a lovely groom.

KRON-TV's Toan Lam, also a USF journalism grad, was also in attendance. Perhaps, he will provide a play-by-play, never forgetting the inverted pyramid?

A Foghorn Testimonial

Robertson and Silver at the Major/Minor Fair

kate elston on the front page of the seattle pi

USF journalism student kate elston has a front page story in today's seattle pi. the story is called: "How do panhandlers spend your money?"


congratulations, kate!

The Onion Makes Us Wince

Media Landscape Redefined By 24-Second News Cycle

ATLANTA, GA—Media critics have argued that segments lasting less than four seconds are missing out on some of the nuance and context the old 45-second pieces provided.

media studies senior dinner

last week, media studies faculty and graduating seniors met at assab's, an eritrean restaurant located a few blocks from campus, for dinner and drinks to celebrate the end of the year.


as a first year professor, i have not had the opportunity to get to know and work with all of our seniors. but from all indications, this year's graduating seniors are smart, creative, and engaged.

to all graduating seniors: congratulations!

A Flash Advert for the Journalism Minor

New Links from Old Friends

Jessica Dryden-Cook has her own personal blog where we may find images from her new job. James Sleeman, who passed through Reporting One without suffering permanent harm, is part of the core over at moli.com

Just to remind those of you who haven't been following the "master narrative" of journalism in the Media Studies department: We are putting together a new course to be offered in Spring 2008. It will be called something like "Field Reporting in the Digital Age." Back in the day, I would have called it a broadcast journalism course.

I am encouraging journalism minors who are also Media Studies majors to combine the two programs so that they take audio production and video production for credit in the major -- and, of course, reporting and advanced reporting in the minor, thus creating a "mini" multimedia journalism emphasis. I'll post more about this during the summer.