News Reporter

For 40 years of my life, I've been involved in journalism, mostly television journalism, and there are a lot of favorite aspects that I have of this business. And so I'm not going to lie to you, one of the favorite aspects was that I got to be on television. And that was fun, getting paid to be on television. And so when I worked as an anchor or when I was on television a lot, people would recognize you wherever you went. So I worked in television in a day when people actually trusted people who were on television. That trust has really diminished in recent years. I think 57% of Democrats trust journalism, mainstream media, and 82% of Republicans distrust journalism.

Hi, my name's Lexi Peery and I'm a news reporter. I have worked as a print journalist and I'm currently a radio reporter and my favorite aspects of the job are just being able to go out and meet people and hear people's life experiences. Some of my very favorite things are going out in the field and, you know, interviewing people and getting to go into their homes and just see what their work is like or their everyday or their day-to-day. So those are my favorite aspects of the job. It's just something new every day and being able to go out and experience new things.