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Skin Anarchy

Behind the Scenes with Emmy-Nominated Journalist Sonni Abatta: From News to Skincare

Skin Anarchy

Ekta et al.

Fashion & Beauty, News, Entertainment News, Education, Arts, Self-improvement

4.5101 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat In an enlightening conversation with Sonni Abatta, four-time Emmy nominee and AP award-winning journalist, we journey through the labyrinth of traditional media to the ever-evolving digital space. Sonni shares her compelling story, detailing her transition into podcast hosting, her coverage of high-profile trials and her quiet, observant childhood that shaped the curious and accomplished journalist she is today. Her thoughtful insights on the importance of curiosit...

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0:00.0

Thank you.

0:01.0

The President, I was definitely back to the aisle.

0:07.0

I see here.

0:08.0

This is the head after my yesterday is such an amazing human being and I'm so excited to be hosting her because I'm a huge

0:15.2

fan of her content and all of the wonderful messages that she puts out there you know and she also has

0:20.3

her own podcast I absolutely love it so we're going to dive into that but

0:24.8

without further ado I want to introduce you guys to Sony Abada who is a four

0:29.8

times Emmy nominated an AP Award winning journalist journalist, and she is also, like I said, the host of her own

0:36.4

talk show and podcast, We Gotta Talk. So welcome, Sony, I'm so excited to be hosting you.

0:41.0

Thank you so much for having me, Dr Echta. It's really great to talk again.

0:45.2

Yes it is so wonderful to have this opportunity again actually and I want to actually you know

0:50.6

get your views on so many different things including a lot of fun stuff

0:54.4

obviously because we love skincare and beauty here but also like we were talking before the show you know there's a lot going on in the world so I can't

1:00.8

wait to dive in but so many tell tells about yourself your career and your amazing background you've done so much you know and I'd love to learn

1:08.8

Yeah, for sure. So I am a journalist by. I spent 15 years working in TV news in two markets, interned in New York City, and gosh, spent most of my time doing news. I did like dip my toe into sports and weather not a pretty picture

1:26.7

but was was honored enough to cover some really interesting stories over my time working both in Pittsburgh and Orlando for two

1:34.1

different affiliate local affiliate stations the Casey Anthony trial

1:38.6

George Zimmerman trial I flew in a fighter jet I went into a burning building with the Pittsburgh Fire Department.

1:44.8

The cool thing about local news is that it's really, I believe the last pure form of journalism,

1:50.3

right? There's like not much to corrupt it at that level so it was really an honor

1:54.4

anchoring reporting all those years you you get exposure to every different type of

2:00.6

story a person that there is in the world especially when you're reporting and you're out on the streets

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