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| Issue: # 4 |
September 2008 |
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Leaving the comfort of summer can be a difficult process for many. There is something about September that always reflects change. This, change, is also a difficult process for people to accept. I think that we should all try to embrace the element of change. Sometimes when things are different we tend to be uncomfortable, this is not necessarily a bad thing because it creates character building and growth. Remember, everything happens for a reason and whatever the situation may be it is a blessing in disguise. It is the lesson that we must figure out so that we can grow and become stronger individuals. Thanks again for all of your support, notes and comments. Check out the contest under Yvelette's Updates.
This month I had a chance to catch up with two individuals who created change and their lives were never the same. Patrice Grell Yursik is an Editor, Journalist and Award Winning Blogger and Korbi Ghosh, a TV Critic and Broadcast Journalist. Ghosh also has a cameo on the television show Scrubs which will air next year.
Happy Fall
Peace and Blessings,
Yvelette Stines
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While a psychology Major at University of Michigan Korbi Ghosh realized she was interested in entertainment and she already had a deep affection for television. "I always loved television, I grew up watching way too much. Before graduation, I started to apply for TV internships in New York, once I was hired I moved there right after graduation." While in New York she met a friend and his cousin was a writer for Scrubs. When the show, Ghosh was working on, was cancelled she took a trip to Los Angeles to visit the set of Scrubs and view a taping of Friends. "I moved to LA six months later," she says.
After her relocation, she worked as an assistant to a television producer and took classes for acting, writing, and journalism. While working as a hostess at a Hollywood restaurant her life changed. "My future boss walked in with her boyfriend and I recognized her as the TV expert from E!. I wasn't going to say anything, but I had to bring the check to the table so it forced me to speak. I told her I wanted to do what she did, and she blew me off and gave me her email address." From then Ghosh contacted her the next day and although it took weeks to hear anything, "she eventually contacted me and I had some scoop for her, she didn't know that Matthew Perry was going to guest star and direct an episode of Scrubs." From then, Ghosh was given some assignments and two weeks later she was working for E!. "During my three and a half years there I was an editorial assistant, a contributing writer and then I got my own daily TV column and began doing a lot of on-camera hosting and interviewing."
Enjoying both written and broadcast journalism, each has its perks. "Writing can be very satisfying especially when you care about the subject, and I can work from home. Being on camera I have to worry about hair and makeup, but if someone else is doing it for me, its fun," she says. "And you know, I like to be the center of attention, I am quite vain." With her self proclaimed vanity and first ambition being a teacher, Ghosh feels her biggest accomplishment as a writer so far is the daily blog that she had on E!. "That was my baby, it was a lot of work but I loved it and I grew as a writer."
If you want the latest scoop on your favorite TV shows, check out Korbi TV. | |
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Born in Trinidad, Patrice Grell Yursik now resides in Miami. As a journalist and editor at the Miami New Times, Yursik wanted to go a step further with her writing and create a publication that was positive, informing and something that she could relate to. In 2006 she started her own blog Afrobella.com. "I wanted to celebrate the kind of beauty that I felt was excluded from mainstream media," she says. "I wasn't seeing the kind of uplifting informed writing I wanted to see online or in magazines and I was hungry for reflections of women who looked like me," she continues.
Since the blog's birth in 2006, the publication has won numerous awards. In 2007 Afrobella won Best Culture Blog and Best Niche Blog in the Black Weblog Awards. In 2008, Afrobella won the Best in Beauty category in the Glam Network Awards as well as the Best Beauty Blog in the first annual Fabbies Blog Awards. Because of the success and depth of her blog Yursik, has become a regular contributor to the blogger's roundtable on NPR's News and Notes with Farai Chideya. Extremely optimistic about the future of Afrobella, Yursik would like to create "Afrobella books, podcasts and videos. I am just excited to keep on the path that I am on, while finding other ways of expressing positivity."
As a full time journalist and blogger, Yursik finds it difficult, at times, to juggle both but she doesn't mind the stress because she loves her job. "Although it [can] be a daily struggle, I am lucky to have a job as a working journalist in a world that is increasingly full of non-working journalists. I have a full plate but I'm happy to have a plate in the first place."
To check out Yursik's blog visit Afrobella.
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