#ViVEvent 2025 will take place in Nashville, TN, February 16-19, and we’re getting ready!
This year’s agenda is packed with thought-provoking sessions and discussions on topics like AI, mobile transformation, cybersecurity, passwordless authentication, and more.
Journalism, marketing, and social media are changing the way we consume information. For former journalists navigating life after news—you’ve probably felt the impact of this media transformation on your career, your creativity, and maybe even your identity. Maybe you’ve been impacted by layoffs or burnout. Maybe you’re trying to leave the industry or make a change in your professional life.
That’s where I found myself four years ago, when I broke my contract in TV news and quit the journalism industry. Having graduated with my broadcast journalism degree just one year earlier, I started to think about what my new career in tech sales would look like…and I’d be lying if I said I was particularly excited about it.
The pros of leaving news completely outweighed the cons. Double the salary, normal work hours, flexible vacation time, holidays off, a work from home job in the spring of 2021 – it was a dream. But leaving behind the newsroom and the career I’d been dreaming of for over a decade broke my heart. I felt like a failure, like I was taking the easy way out. I thought I didn’t have what it takes to be a real journalist.
LUBBOCK, Texas — A Midland man celebrated his 60th birthday by doing his favorite thing this week — running, and running far. Nopporn ‘Popcorn’ Leonard ran 60 miles on his 60th birthday while raising money for an important cause inspired by the pandemic.
“I just feel like I need to do my part giving back to the community,” said Leonard.
Leonard has raced in two marathons a year since he was 38-years-old. However, when the pandemic hit, that wasn’t possible.
“I was training for Boston Marathon and it got canceled due to Coronavirus, of course,” said Leonard. “So I was looking for something to do after that.”
He saw on the news that there was a long line at his local food bank right at the start of the pandemic. Realizing how big that need was, he decided to do something to give back.
“So I was like, Well, you know what? So my birthday, eight days before my birthday, I decided I’m gonna run 59 miles and try to collect money for West Texas Food Bank,” said Leonard.
Read the full article on everythinglubbock.com, published April 15, 2021.
Amy Koczera: Strategic Writer & Storyteller 