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Chatting with journalist Scott Gustin - PREP 341

WDW Prep To Go - a Disney World planning podcast

Shannon Albert from WDWPrepSchool.com, a Disney World planning site

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Scott Gustin joins Shannon on the podcast today to discuss his history as a journalist and his interest in Walt Disney World and Disneyland. We get a peek into his life in the media sector on, why he is only active on Twitter, and his drive to deliver non-sensationalized news content.
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0:00.0

Today we'll have my chat with journalist Scott Gustin that's coming up on this episode 341 of WWE Prep To Go.

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to WWE Prep To Go where we talk strategy and ideas for people planning their Disney World Trips.

0:30.0

Today we have my chat with Scott Gustin and a lot of you, particularly those of you who are on Twitter are going to know that name because he is a go-to source for theme park news and is very active on Twitter.

0:50.0

If you're not on Twitter, you may not know but a lot of stuff comes from him and makes its way through the pipeline into your inbox so he's very important part of the community.

0:58.0

I'll have my chat with him in just a minute.

1:00.0

As always, a couple of housekeeping items. If you want to be a trip report guest, please use the Speak Pipe information in the show notes.

1:07.0

That includes using either the Speak Pipe website or the Speak Pipe app to leave a voicemail with details about your trip.

1:14.0

And if it works out with our schedule, then my podcast producer will reach out to get you scheduled.

1:20.0

The other is to follow on social media, search WDW Prep School on all platforms, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and follow us there.

1:29.0

We post content every single day.

1:31.0

Now back to my chat with Scott. Before we dive into it, I want to give a little disclaimer that we recorded this a couple of weeks ago.

1:38.0

And since Scott's specialty is Disney news, I want to just make sure you know that everything was current as of the time we recorded it.

1:45.0

But of course, since then, some news has been released. So if anything's outdated, that is why.

1:50.0

But it was current when we recorded it here is my child was Scott. Welcome to podcast Scott.

1:56.0

Hi, how are you?

1:57.0

I'm great. I am so happy to talk to you.

1:59.0

Yeah, I would do a proper introduction, but there's a part of me that just wants to say, where did you come from?

2:06.0

Hi, so my background is in is in local news. So I started working as television station here in North Carolina and worked my way into digital.

2:15.0

And then joined the national content team on the digital side several years ago when we were owned by a different company and then.

2:24.0

And the local television news landscape, the TV stations are swapped around and bought and resold a lot.

2:32.0

So I've had several different, you know, parent companies, corporate teams that I've worked on, but I've always been on like a national content team that writes and provides content for our TV stations across the country.

2:45.0

Currently, I work at next star. We've got 150 television sites across the country, including, you know, KTLA.

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