Host, The Breakdown with Toni Waterman 

Bermuda Broadcasting

​Aug 2018 - Present

 

• Action packed 30 minutes of international business news focused on economics, technology, emerging industries and all things interesting. Taking complicated issues, breaking them down and making them accessible to the public.

• Responsibilities include:  Editorial oversight of shows, writing scripts, in the field stories, long-form journalism, creating touchscreen sequences, editing video, uncovering scoops and booking guests.

 

Major Achievements:

• Developed international business news programming – a first for the station.

• Exclusive interviews with industry leaders like AIG CEO Brian Duperreault and World Bank adviser Andreas Jobst. 

 

 

International Business Reporter

Bermuda Broadcasting

​Nov 2017 - Present 

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• Daily packages or live hits connecting international business events to Bermuda.

• Responsibilities include: enterprise reporting, writing, editing, producing and pitching.

 

Major Achievements:

• Investigative reports uncovered two cases of fraud within the business community.

• Aided in the restructuring of the newsroom and programming.

 

 

International Business Anchor, Sr Reporter

Channel NewsAsia

​Sept 2014 - Oct 2017

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• Live, daily. Anchored PrimeTime Business, PrimeTime World Business and Business Tonight. Breaking news, exclusive interviews and analysis on markets, policy, culture and technology.

• Responsibilities included:  setting the editorial tone of shows, writing scripts, liaising with contacts, uncovering scoops, pitching, and producing. 

 

Major Achievements:

• Week long specials in Thailand, Indonesia and Germany focused on each country’s unique economic challenges and opportunities. Interviews with Ministers resulted in exclusive and breaking news.  

• 30 minute special on the Indonesian economy focused on infrastructure challenges, e-commerce and local startups. Ratings were double normal viewership.

• One-on-one long form interviews with CEOs, CIOs, investment strategists, Prime Ministers, Ministers and central bank governors, etc. Interviews include WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell and the Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay.

• Live shows from major summits and moderating for WEF and ADB.

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Reporter

Channel NewsAsia

Jan 2013 - Oct 2017

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• Daily packages for TV. Focus on international business news with heavy focus on Southeast Asia.

• Responsibilities included: live reports, in studio interviews, travel to cover breaking news.

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Major Achievements

• Live reports from regional Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, including exclusive interviews with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman.

• Exclusive interview with garment factory owner during massive employee protests in Cambodia.

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Reporter, Producer

Greater Boston with Emily Rooney + 89.7 WGBH

March 2009 - Aug 2012

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• Produce and report day-of stories for TV, radio and the web. Focus on local news, but also take national and international stories and make them relevant to the Boston audience.

• Responsibilities included: finding unique angles to local stories, enterprise reporting, producing, editing, and live reporter debriefs, including for NPR.

 

Major Achievements:

• Part of a team awarded an Edward R. Murrow Award for continuous coverage of the Occupy Boston movement. Stories focused on individual Occupiers, the impact on the local economy, and overnight coverage of the final 24 hours of the Occupy Boston movement.

• Long-form packages which followed patients through medical procedures, including breast cancer gene testing for a young woman who lost her mother to the disease, cutting-edge knee replacement surgery and a 17-year-old girl’s gastric bypass surgery.

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Associate Producer

ABC News, Medical Unit 

Oct 2007 - March 2009 

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• Produce and report medical news stories from across the globe for ABCNews.com and produce videos for ABC News.

• Responsibilities included: producing, writing and editing.

 

Major Achievements:

• Assisted in the development and execution of the OnCall+ multimedia online medical resource project, which included more than 2,000 videos.

• Packages which appeared on News One, World News Overnight and ABCNews.com.

• Producer for Dr. Timothy Johnson’s daily show, Healthy Life.