Events for January 10, 2025 › Open to all of UM

Top Network Executive and Producer to Share Media Career Insights with Students

University of Miami School of Communication 5100 Brunson Dr., Coral Gables

It’s all about how to tell a good story. That’s the best way to describe Shannon High-Bassalik’s career which has spanned news, entertainment, documentaries, streaming, and social media. Starting as an associate news producer in Miami at WFOR, she came back to the station exactly 10 years later as VP of news and helped bring it from one of the worst stations in the country to an award-winning national leader. At the networks, as creator and executive producer of CNN’s “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien” and “Early Start,” she helped [...]