Cory McGinnis joins abc13 KTRK as new Race and Culture reporter
Cory McGinnis joins abc13 KTRK as the station's Race and Culture reporter.
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2021
Cory McGinnis exits abc13 KTRK
McGinnis comes to Houston from CBS 42 WIAT Birmingham, Alabama where he has worked since 2018 as a 10pm newscast reporter.
According to his WIAT bio, before CBS 42, McGinnins worked for several years at CBS 46 WGCL and FOX 5 WAGA in Atlanta.
Prior to Atlanta, McGinnis worked for ABC 33/40 WTTO - WABM - WBMA Birmingham, Alabama.
His first television news job was as a news reporter for News Channel 6 WJBF Augusta, Georgia.
The Chicago native attended Kennesaw State University in Georgia. He interned at CNN and WSB Atlanta.
McGinnis is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA).
Other hires in the Disney-ABC Television Group's station newly created Race & Culture coverage area include WLS Chicago's MMJ Will Jones and KGO San Francisco anchor Julian Glover.
Here is more about the new beat from Disney Careers:
"The multi-skilled journalists will be based at each of the OTV stations (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh-Durham and Fresno) and work directly with the newsroom management teams and decision makers to select and create content. The journalists will be part of the editorial decision-making process as it relates to story assignments, sourcing subjects featured in stories and developing community relationships to expand the diversity of voices included in our storytelling. Each journalist may be assigned specific beats with a goal of local and national distribution of the content across all OTV platforms. In addition, journalists will work closely with the ABC News Race & Culture Unit to identify areas of collaboration.
In addition, the journalists will work across the group and meet daily with the Executive Producers of Race & Culture to identify mission appropriate topics, stories and series for journalistic exploration and match with content creators throughout the organization."
