Gilat Melamed Biography
Gilat Melamed is a multimedia journalist at 7 Eyewitness News in Buffalo. She joined WKBW in June 2019.
Melamed realized her passion for reporting during her freshman year at CitrusTV, Syracuse University’s student-run television station. She also anchored the evening news and hosted a political news show for the station.
During her four years at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, she had the opportunity to go on reporting trips to Israel and Ukraine “not to mention try some really good hummus and pierogies”.
Outside of Newhouse, Gilat interned with WNBC-TV in New York, Spectrum News in Syracuse, and NBC Olympics.
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Gilat Melamed is a multimedia journalist at 7 Eyewitness News in Buffalo. She joined WKBW in June 2019. She was born in Queens, New York, her actual age is under review and will be updated soon.
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Melamed is a native of Queens, New York. She is excited to continue reporting in her home state. Gilat loves the outdoors, which includes going to the beach in the summer and skiing in the winter.
Gilat’s eager to explore everything from the restaurant scene in downtown Buffalo to the nature scene across Western New York.
She is a graduate of Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism, and Political Science. Her mother, father, brothers and sisters details are under review and will be updated soon.
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Gilat loves talking to new people and sharing their stories that may never be shared otherwise. She sees journalism as a way to hold those in power accountable in order to better the lives of people in her community. She has not revealed information about her married life. The details are under review and ill be updated soon.
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Gilat Melamed is a multimedia journalist at 7 Eyewitness News in Buffalo.
She joined WKBW in June 2019. She realized her passion for reporting during her freshman year at CitrusTV, Syracuse University’s student-run television station.
Melamed estimated Net Worth as of 201+9 is under review and will be updated soon.
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She is a senior Broadcast and Digital Journalism and Political Science major from New York City. She has been on the team since her freshman year. Her previous on air-roles include being a weather anchor, and a Talking Points Correspondent.
The highlight of her time at CitrusTV was co-hosting the station’s live three hour 2018 Midterm Election Special. Gilat spent the last two summers interning at NBC New York, and hopes to one day return to New York City as a reporter, or make the trip down I-95 to cover politics in D.C.
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Previously on the Decline, Journalism School Enrollment Benefits from ‘Trump Bump’
Journalism has not had an easy decade. Enrollment in undergraduate journalism and mass communication programs dropped 3 percent in the United States from 2010 to 2013 as students increasingly saw traditional journalism degrees as unmarketable, according to a University of Georgia survey.
Journalism programs took an even harder hit in the following years. A Texas Tech survey published in 2017 found that between 2013 and 2015, undergraduate enrollment in the discipline nationwide dropped by 16.3 percent.
In 2016, public trust in mass media hit a 45-year low with only 32 percent of respondents in a Gallup poll reporting trusting media a “great deal” or a “fair amount.”
The press has continuously been under attack from political leaders in the U.S., as well. President Donald Trump consistently undercuts the media, referring to journalists as “the true enemy of the people,” “fake news,” and “crazed lunatics.” He recently suspended a White House journalist’s press pass and has disallowed media from attending important events.
When a bomb was mailed to CNN headquarters in October of 2018, Trump denounced the act but blamed the journalists, saying, “The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories.”
But the continued attacks on the press may have had a counterintuitive effect on journalism schools. Since Trump’s election in 2016, some schools of journalism have reported seeing a recovery in their application and enrollment numbers.
Journalism faculty and administrators theorize that the political climate is driving renewed interest in the field and have dubbed the phenomenon the “Trump bump.”
“The president is making journalism great again,” says Joel Kaplan, associate dean for professional graduate studies at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications.
“We did have a real issue toward the beginning of this decade when we were losing a lot of interest in journalism, but that has ticked back up in the last couple of years. I credit the president of the United States for that.”
Lucy Dalglish, JD, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, and Janet Kolodzy, chair of the Department of Journalism at Emerson College, have also seen increased interest, and both agree the current political climate has something to do with it.
Kolodzy says in the last three years, she has noticed “a resurgence of interest due to the political and cultural climate and journalism’s role in society.”
Dalglish has seen steady applications and a rise in enrollment — from 81 starting freshmen in 2017 to 118 in 2018 — a phenomenon she believes is in part a response to the 2016 election. The college was also able to offer more scholarship money.
“The freshmen are telling us they enrolled in journalism because they want to hold the powerful accountable,” Dalglish says.
Tyler Lowell, a graduate student at Newhouse, says the current political situation played a big role in his decision to pursue a journalism degree.
“I was completely blindsided by the chaotic political landscape of the 2016 election and was convinced it would have a different outcome,” he says.
“Voices and ideologies that I agree with weren’t prominently featured in the 2016 cycle, which I’d say prompted some desire to bring both my own personal experiences and awakened curiosity about others to the table.”
Even students who weren’t initially drawn to journalism because of the political climate say it has affected how they approach reporting.
Gilat Melamed, a Newhouse undergraduate, applied for college before Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton or Trump even announced their candidacies. She participated in Newhouse’s student-run television station’s coverage of election night.
“Being a part of that night was my first taste of the unpredictability of breaking news and American politics,” Melamed says.
“A lot of the backlash the media received for how it covered the 2016 election stuck with me and made me think about how I can be a better journalist.”
In addition to a surge of students responding to heightened political tension, journalism programs are also seeing a payoff from changes they made to respond to financial challenges in the journalism world. As media organizations tightened their belts and hired fewer people at lower salaries, Newhouse shifted its approach.
In the past, as long as students were good writers and able to think critically, they could find jobs with news organizations that would then provide more specific training, Kaplan says.
As full-time positions became increasingly competitive and more journalists turned to freelance, the academic approach had to become more entrepreneurial.
Newhouse students are now trained in audio and video, podcasts, and multimedia storytelling. “We’re trying to empower them with these other skills that we never thought we would need,” Kaplan says.
Kaplan is glad interest in journalism has picked up, but students wanting to have an impact can be a double-edged sword, he says.
“We’re journalists. If you’re going to make a difference, you still have to make a difference within the ethical parameters, and the idea is that you shouldn’t be taking sides and you shouldn’t be taking things personally.”
It’s an idea that’s ingrained in older journalists, Kaplan says, but is a little tougher for younger students who tend to want to call it like it is.
“I love their passion, and I love that they want to make a difference. Journalism is always a profession you can make a difference in,” Kaplan says. “But I also don’t want them to cross the line.” Read also about Olivia Proia.
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