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Naomi Klinge
Multimedia Reporter | Digital | International
For over 6 years, working in the news industry has allowed me to gain experience across a variety of medias: television news producing, daily newspaper writing, beat reporting, podcast producing and hosting, and freelance reporting.
During my time at the University of Missouri, I had several opportunities to travel abroad, a huge step in my goal to one day work in international news. In 2019, I spent 7 months out of the country, first in Brussels where I worked as a communications intern for four months at International Crisis Group, a conflict resolution NGO, which introduced me to the conflict world, something I've always been incredibly interested in. I then moved to Delhi for the summer to work as a reporting intern at the Indian Express, a prominent english-language newspaper that allowed me to begin reporting on human rights and immigration, a topic I plan to feature heavily in my work moving forward.
But, my experience at Missouri Business Alert, producing and hosting weekly podcasts for startups and entrepreneurs across the state, and my internship with the Los Angeles Times Company Town team, reporting on the business of the entertainment industry, has also made me proficient in business writing. My work at Upstream News, a trade weekly covering the oil and gas industry, brought me into the world of energy and climate reporting, which I now understanding could be the defining coverage of my generation.
Moving forward, I plan to use my experience in energy and environment to cover the human side of climate change, and follow how industry and policy effects those most vulnerable.
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Why I Do What I Do
When I was 16 years old, I spent the summer as a volunteer in the Dominican Republic living with a host family. It was my first opportunity to live abroad, and I was excited to work with kids and organize a community project. My curiosity of different cultures led me to the program, but I finished it feeling I was more of a burden than an asset to the families there.
For example, we were supposed have a weekly meal schedule so I would eat my meals each day with a different family. This fell through almost immediately, so every day was a question of where we would eat. There were several days another volunteer and I had to knock on doors and ask for food, something a rural neighborhood could hardly support.
Although I felt helpless there, since then I critically think through my motivations every time I've wanted to work abroad to make sure I know why I want to work somewhere and what I can bring to the table. I think about this every time I start a new project, and it allows me to create work that I am more proud of. At the time I didn't know it, but meeting and living with the people in the Dominican Republic would eventually shape my interest in human rights, poverty and conflict around the world.
