|
Elex Michaelson is news anchor of the Wednesday Annenberg TV News, his second straight semester in the anchor chair.
Michaelson is also currently interning at KNBC Los Angeles, where he is the primary political intern. In that capacity, he has helped interview Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and Gov. Mitt Romney, as well as report from both the Republican and Democratic debates in Los Angeles.
Last year, Michaelson was named one of the top 11 interns in the entire NBC Universal Corporation. He spent the summer in Washington D.C. working for NBC’s affiliate feeder service, Newschannel. Michaelson reported from the White House, the Supreme Court, and Capitol Hill and interviewed leading politicians including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Michaelson’s reports aired in NBC markets across the country. The previous summer, Michaelson interned at KNBC in Los Angeles, mostly covering the gubernatorial election between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his challenger, Phil Angelides. Michaelson began his intern career reporting on entertainment for KTTV’s “Good Day LA,” where he conducted interviews with celebrities and wrote daily copy.
During his first three years at USC, Michaelson served as host and managing editor for the “Platforum” debate/discussion show on Trojanvision. In his senior year, he hosted “CU@USC”, USC’s celebrity interview program.
Michaelson is a finalist for the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s award for outstanding college broadcast journalist. He earned the Herb Klein Scholarship, USC’s highest for political reporting, for a broadcast that focused on Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans now enrolled at USC. Michaelson won the Richard Drake Slocum Scholarship for political commentaries he contributed to the Daily Trojan.
Outside of television, Michaelson is especially proud of his charity work on behalf of his Fraternity. He co-founded the Get Hands On Campaign, a celebrity t-shirt campaign that promotes breast cancer awareness. Stars including George Clooney, Keira Knightley, Samuel L. Jackson, Sheryl Crowe, and more than twenty others contributed shirts, and Michaelson was featured on NBC’s “TODAY” Show, “Access Hollywood,” “E! News” and inside “People” Magazine. The campaign earned more than $80,000, the largest Fraternity philanthropic project on record.
At ATVN, Michaelson has previously served as: news reporter, writer/shooter/editor, sports reporter, and floor director. Michaelson is a senior broadcast journalism and political science double major, planning on graduating from USC in May 2008.
|
