Beth Johnson
@TV_Agent_Beth
(706) 998-6397
For the last decade I have worked to provide a voice to the needs of media journalists, especially producers, and tried to make the job easier and more fulfilling. I’m the founder of survivetvnewsjobs.com and spent the last 9 years as the only fully dedicated agent for producers and managers in TV news. Before that I was an executive producer in Orlando and a producer in Cleveland, Tampa, Kansas City, Greenville and Columbia South Carolina.
Industry leaders cite my ability to boil down solutions that are effective and easy to implement. I understand many managers want to help their staff succeed, but they also need key support. The job is simply too demanding to do it all.
I’ve heard from hundreds of producers who feel like no one understands what they’re going through. I understand. Been there, done that, have the t-shirt. I translate what you need to leaders in the industry who don’t see what you’re asking for. I help make your job easier and more fulfilling.
Ross Becker
@Rossbeckernews
(760)-413-8903
Ross Becker has spent the past 50 years in broadcasting and broadcast journalism, keeping a promise he made to some of his early teachers and mentors. He told them he would pass on the knowledge he has learned from working in newsrooms from Green Bay, Wisconsin to MSNBC, NBC, and CBS in Los Angeles and various markets in-between.
Ross is a reporter, anchor, manager, station owner, and founder of the website TvMentors.com. He is a 4-time Emmy winner and has 15 nominations. He is a national Mark Twain Associated Press award winner for news writing and leadership. He has numerous awards for his work from the Los Angeles Press Club and Radio-TV News Association of Southern California.
Finally, Ross was the first person to interview OJ Simpson after his acquittal on murder charges. It was controversial but also ground-breaking. He is keeping his promise now to pass on his expertise to the next generation of storytelling by co-founding Top News Talent, LLC.
Steve Kraycik
@TV_Agent_Steve
(425)-681-1726
Steve brings more than 35 years of media experience to Top News Talent.
He spent a decade as a top-20 market News Director on the west coast in Seattle and Sacramento. Before that he held news management positions in Tampa and Orlando. He got his start as a producer in Allentown, PA and spent more than 10 years as a news producer at stations on the east coast, including Providence and Tampa.
In 2012, Steve returned to Pennsylvania as Director of Student Television at Penn State University. He teaches, mentors, and guides Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications students in all aspects of TV news, and supervises the “Centre County Report,” a student-produced newscast that airs in 29 Pennsylvania counties. Under his leadership, the Centre County Report student staff has won numerous awards, including two national college Emmys, and the show has been named the best college newscast in the nation four times (by the Society of Professional Journalists, Broadcast Education Association and the College Television Awards).
Among Steve’s memorable experiences in TV news are field producing coverage at three Super Bowls, a presidential inauguration in Washington DC, and producing a governor’s debate moderated by the late NBC news legend Tim Russert.
Carlos Amezcua
(818) 398-9224
Carlos Amezcua has spent the past 45 years covering major news stories around the world, spending most of those years in Los Angeles at KTLA as co-anchor of the number one-rated KTLA Morning News.
Carlos has been awarded 22 Emmys, numerous Associated Press awards, multiple Radio Television News Association’s “Golden Mike Awards” and was part of the team that won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. In 2006, The National Hispanic Media Coalition honored Carlos with its National “Impact Award” for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. The Daily News called Carlos Amezcua, “LA’s Best Anchorman”.
As a CBS News Correspondent, he covered President Ronald Reagan’s White House and has interviewed President George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara, President Jimmy Carter, President Donald Trump, Senator Hilary Clinton, Mexican President Vicente Fox, Secretary of State Colin Powell, many sports and Hollywood celebrities.
As an entrepreneur, Carlos was responsible for creating and producing television’s first all Latino stand-up comedy show “Comedy Compadres”. He also created LA Kings Magazine, HollywoodMusicStore.com and the FOX Friday Night Specials.
In 2005 Carlos led a digital video streaming initiative that created the first non-buffering, non-loading HD video for digital devices that was implemented by FOX Television, CBS, Warner Brothers and Disney. That initiative led to his first successful exit as a tech entrepreneur.
Carlos continues to lead the way in both creative and technology projects with the launch of BEOND.TV, an innovative media programming platform that provides opportunity for diverse content creators in the new digital media. An expert in what makes morning news work, Carlos has advised newsrooms across America on how to dominate television’s most important day part.
Carlos is also an active volunteer in many community and business organizations and works to inspire young people to reach their highest potential.