ABOUT LIAM
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Everyone has a story. Thanks for visiting Liam's professional website to learn a little bit more about his!
Interested in learning more about any of the information provided here? Check out his platforms listed below. Liam started working as a General Assignment Multimedia Reporter at Local 3 News in July of 2021. Before that, he worked as the Jacksonville Bureau Chief and Multimedia Journalist at WITN News in May of 2020. Starting and following through on his reporting career in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic was certainly not how he imagined it, but has been the most challenging and rewarding experience imaginable. He is a 2020 graduate of Elon University. He graduated with with degrees in journalism and political science and a minor in American Studies. Home is the Hudson Valley, New York. Liam sees his role in the newsroom as bringing content you won't see anywhere else. From pitches to delivery, and everywhere in between, he asks the questions that will make his work stand out from the pack: Who won't be heard anywhere else? What angle isn't being discussed? How can this be shown so it can be understood? All of Liam's digital platforms represent him and his driven personality in a way that no resume or cover letter ever could. While he's a journalist in the head, he's a storyteller at heart. His best and favorite stories he's had the privilege of being a part of have been those that have allowed him to dive deeper into personal stories, get creative, and have expanded the way he sees the world. |
During the winter term of his senior year at Elon, he was privileged enough to be accepted for the Iowa Caucuses course. For the class, he traveled to Des Moines, Iowa to report on-the-ground on presidential candidates, voters, and supporters to get an understanding of the political universe that you can't get anywhere else. In Iowa, Liam interviewed Republican Bill Weld, Democrat John Delaney, former Secretary of State John Delaney, and former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner. Photo Credit: Mark Dalhouse
Liam's sweet spot is with a camera in his hand. He loves getting creative with video shooting and editing, it's one of his favorite parts of being a journalist. Here, Liam is shooting the exterior of a coffee shop employing people with disabilities for a long-form multimedia piece centering on the statewide and national effort to increase the number of people with disabilities in the labor force.
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LIAM BREAKS NEWS
Liam reports on an early-morning shooting at a chicken plant in a rural part of his market area. Photo Credit: Brandon Hardison
Liam's breaking news philosophy has always been first, but factual. As a bureau reporter, the most important thing he learned was developing relationships. Those relationships paid off when he got a call at 6:00 in the morning about a shooting at a poultry plant on the day before Thanksgiving. Liam got out the details before any of his competitors in his market, and any of the stations in top 50 markets that covered that area. He ended up doing six live hits throughout that day, including one for a top 30 market in North Carolina.
That's a great example of his ability to break news when it matters. But, it's not the only one. He has broken stories about crime, misconduct and politics during my time in Eastern North Carolina.
That's a great example of his ability to break news when it matters. But, it's not the only one. He has broken stories about crime, misconduct and politics during my time in Eastern North Carolina.
LIAM TELLS STORIES
FROM THE HEART
Liam prepares an interview with three children about the challenges of navigating the holiday season in the middle of the pandemic. Photo Credit: Ashley Davis
The stories that keep Liam going are the ones that renew his faith in humanity. His favorite part of the job is meeting new people who blow him away with their kindness and perseverance in navigating this crazy world.
This story was developed by a simple idea: This Christmas is different. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, so many regular holiday traditions had been pushed aside. So many families didn't have the money to make the holidays what it should be, or what they had longed it to become after the year we had all endured. To explain all that to children would undoubtedly be tough. Ashley Davis' family graciously invited Liam into their home to explain how they had to do just that.
This story was developed by a simple idea: This Christmas is different. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, so many regular holiday traditions had been pushed aside. So many families didn't have the money to make the holidays what it should be, or what they had longed it to become after the year we had all endured. To explain all that to children would undoubtedly be tough. Ashley Davis' family graciously invited Liam into their home to explain how they had to do just that.
LIAM GETS TO THE TRUTH
Liam interviews an anonymous woman who claims she was wrongfully terminated from her job as a case worker for a government program aiding in hurricane recovery. Photo Credit: WITN
Storytelling is what keeps Liam afloat, but uncovering far-reaching injustices is why he puts so much value into his profession.
Liam began receiving complaints from a woman he had worked with a few times on Hurricane Florence recovery effort stories. She, eventually, revealed that she claimed she had been wrongfully terminated from her job with the government program after challenging her superior on slow progress with her cases. Those cases were now up-in-the-air, and they feared the little progress that had been made in two years would be set back.
The woman wanted to remain anonymous out of fear for future government employment opportunities, after much discussion with his managers, they agreed, which took some creative thinking on his end. Shortly after Liam's story aired, dozens more women came forward to claim the same wrongful termination after complaints of disfunction, inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment.
Liam began receiving complaints from a woman he had worked with a few times on Hurricane Florence recovery effort stories. She, eventually, revealed that she claimed she had been wrongfully terminated from her job with the government program after challenging her superior on slow progress with her cases. Those cases were now up-in-the-air, and they feared the little progress that had been made in two years would be set back.
The woman wanted to remain anonymous out of fear for future government employment opportunities, after much discussion with his managers, they agreed, which took some creative thinking on his end. Shortly after Liam's story aired, dozens more women came forward to claim the same wrongful termination after complaints of disfunction, inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment.
