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Life After News
Jason Ball
36 episodes
10 hours ago
Send us a text 🎧 Larry Welk: Veteran helicopter reporter, aviation entrepreneur, and grandson of television legend Lawrence Welk 🚁 Episode Summary If you’ve ever watched a police pursuit in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve heard Larry Welk’s voice from above. Larry was in the helicopter for the very first televised police pursuit in L.A. history in 1992 and he’s been part of nearly every major aerial story since. In this episode, Jason Ball catches up with Larry to talk about his remarkable jo...
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Send us a text 🎧 Larry Welk: Veteran helicopter reporter, aviation entrepreneur, and grandson of television legend Lawrence Welk 🚁 Episode Summary If you’ve ever watched a police pursuit in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve heard Larry Welk’s voice from above. Larry was in the helicopter for the very first televised police pursuit in L.A. history in 1992 and he’s been part of nearly every major aerial story since. In this episode, Jason Ball catches up with Larry to talk about his remarkable jo...
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Life After News
🎙️ Helicopter Pilot/Reporter Larry Welk Files a New Flight Path 🚁
Send us a text 🎧 Larry Welk: Veteran helicopter reporter, aviation entrepreneur, and grandson of television legend Lawrence Welk 🚁 Episode Summary If you’ve ever watched a police pursuit in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve heard Larry Welk’s voice from above. Larry was in the helicopter for the very first televised police pursuit in L.A. history in 1992 and he’s been part of nearly every major aerial story since. In this episode, Jason Ball catches up with Larry to talk about his remarkable jo...
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6 days ago
41 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ What’s on the Menu for Food Critic Tom Sietsema’s Life After News
Send us a text This week, Jason Ball sits down with the legendary Tom Sietsema, who recently retired after nearly 26 years as The Washington Post’s food critic 🍽️. From dining in disguise to crafting over 1,200 restaurant reviews, Tom shares what it was like living a double life as one of America’s most respected (and most anonymous) culinary voices. Now, he’s stepping into his life after news — trading deadlines for dinner parties and launching a new project called “Lamb Burger Night” 🍔✨ — i...
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1 week ago
34 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Lisa Guerrero: Walking Away, Speaking Up, and Becoming a Warrior 💥🎙️
Send us a text Guest: Lisa Guerrero (investigative journalist, author of Warrior) Host: Jason Ball Link: 👉 lisaguerrero.com Episode vibe: Courage, accountability, and what it really takes to speak truth to power. Content note: This episode includes discussion of pregnancy loss and workplace trauma. What we cover Why Lisa chose to leave Inside Edition after 18 years and what that says about a crisis in establishment media 🗞️How reclaiming her voice became the turning point that powered award...
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2 weeks ago
45 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ From Early Web Producer to Change-Maker: Olsen Ebright on How You Can Make a Difference 💻🗞️🏘️
Send us a text What happens when a millennial “big J” journalist who helped build TV news on the internet trades breaking news for neighborhood impact? In this episode, Olsen Ebright (KTLA/KNBC/CBS) joins Jason to unpack the birth of digital news, the social-media rollercoaster, sane push-alert strategy, and why hyper-local politics might be your most powerful lever for change. 👉 Listen & subscribe now to hear practical, no-nonsense lessons for journalists, creators, and civic nerds alike...
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3 weeks ago
41 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ From Reporting to Working with Reese Witherspoon: Simone Boyce’s Life After News
Send us a text This week, Jason sits down with Simone Boyce, former KTLA reporter, MTV News & Access Hollywood host, and the very first anchor of NBC News Signal (now NBC News Now). From those early experimental days of streaming news to hosting The Bright Side for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Simone has lived many chapters of life in and after news. And now? She’s eyeing a future in political comedy. 🎭✨ Simone opens up about: 🌎 Breaking into 30 Rock and building something new...
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1 month ago
28 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Christina McLarty Arquette on Jumping from Entertainment Reporter to Indie Producer (and Reviving Bozo) 🎬🤹‍♀️🐄
Send us a text Christina McLarty Arquette walked away from on-air entertainment reporting to build a prolific producing career across documentaries and scripted features. In this episode, we dig into how she finished her first doc Survivor’s Guide to Prison, produced the cult-favorite You Cannot Kill David Arquette, brought film productions to Arkansas (including Jason's hometown), and why she and David Arquette are reimagining…Bozo the Clown. Episode Highlights Career Reboot with Purpose: Bu...
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1 month ago
52 minutes

Life After News
Breaking Barriers, Finding Radical Joy & Redefining Storytelling with May Lee
Send us a text In this episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with international journalist May Lee. May is a former CNN and ABC News correspondent, anchor, talk show host, professor, and now co-host of the hit podcast Shoes Off Inside. ✨ May shares her remarkable journey: From small-market local news to becoming CNN’s “disaster queen” covering global crises 🌍Breaking into Japanese media as one of the first Asian American journalists on NHK 🇯🇵Reporting through earthquakes, att...
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1 month ago
45 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ How You Go from Journalism to PR: Lessons from Josh Rubenstein 🎙️➡️🛡️
Send us a text 🎙️ This episode doubles as your playbook. You’ve told stories on deadline; now you’re thinking about owning the story for an organization. Here’s how to make the jump from newsroom to PR on purpose, not in panic. What you’ll learn 🧭 How to plan your pivot years before you need itThe real difference between reporting news and making newsHow to operate inside big orgs where buy-in beats speedCrisis rules: why the story always changes and how you communicate thatThe mindset shift ...
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1 month ago
35 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Bonus Episode: Technology for Your Life After News
Send us a text Feeling stuck in a career rut or ready for a new chapter? This bonus episode of Life After News is for you! 🎙️✨This week I’m sharing a special bonus conversation with my friend Rich DeMuro—tech reporter, host of Rich on Tech, and all-around gadget guy. ⚡ We dive into how off-the-shelf tech like AI, Canva, and Riverside.fm makes it possible for anyone to create their own podcast 🎧 and newsletter 📰 without a big newsroom behind them. From my leap out of TV news to running a Palm ...
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2 months ago
12 minutes

Life After News
“Do you want to be Princess Leia’s assistant?” Byron Lane’s Life After News 🎙️✨
Send us a text Author/playwright/former TV newsie Byron Lane talks origin stories, on-air anxiety, assisting Carrie Fisher, chasing the Northern Lights, indie films, best-selling novels, big love, and bigger reinventions. This one’s honest, funny, and full of heart. 💛 What you’ll hear 🚨 “I’m still just telling stories.” Why the news muscle never leaves🏕️ Boy Scout tour → WWL legend. Byron’s “pharmacist moment”⏰ Overnights + 8am classes. Grit that built a storyteller😬 The cost of ‘live.’ On-ai...
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2 months ago
43 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Bonus Episode: Can Nonprofits Save Local News? 📰✨
Send us a text In this special bonus episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with Emily Barr, longtime media executive and former president of Graham Media Group. With decades of leadership at WLS in Chicago and Graham’s TV stations, Emily has seen firsthand how local journalism has changed and why its survival depends on innovation, collaboration, and nonprofit support. 🤝 Now retired from daily station management but deeply active in the industry, Emily serves on the boards of the A...
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2 months ago
32 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Sharon Tay on the Good and the Bad of the TV Business.
Send us a text An anchor from KCBS, KCAL, KTLA, and MSNBC, Sharon, gets candid about the shocking call from HR at Trader Joe's 🛒, the darker side of TV news, and her thriving career selling luxury real estate with the Altman Brothers. This is a conversation you won't want to miss. The Shocking Layoff at Trader Joe's 🤯 🎧Sharon opens up about the moment her 13-year career at KCBS ended unexpectedly during the 2020 pandemic layoffs. She shares the raw emotions of receiving the news while grocery...
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2 months ago
39 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Bonus Episode: The Future of the Television Station Business
Send us a text 📺 What’s next for local TV? Consolidation, new technology, and the fight to stay relevant in a streaming-first world. In this bonus episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with Adam Jacobson, Editor-in-Chief of the Radio and Television Business Report, to break down the big changes shaking up the television station business. 🔑 What You’ll Hear: 📉 Consolidation Nation – What it means when just three groups could own half the nation’s TV stations.🚀 NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) ...
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2 months ago
24 minutes

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🎙️ Tony Morrison is Building the Dream: Life After News
Send us a text In this episode of Life After News, Jason Ball sits down with Tony Morrison—a media pro whose career path took him from CNN📰 and Good Morning America ☀️ to advocacy work at GLAAD 🏳️‍🌈, and now to launching his own media company, the Morrison Media Group 🚀. Tony’s journey is anything but traditional. He started as a business major who couldn’t pass finance 📉, discovered photography 📸, and wound up behind the camera in TV production. From hidden cameras on What Would You Do? to o...
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2 months ago
38 minutes

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🎙 Bonus Episode: Is Warren Buffett Right? The Future of the Television Station Business
Send us a text 🎙 Bonus Episode: Is Warren Buffett Right? When Warren Buffett says the network TV affiliation model doesn’t work anymore, people pay attention. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, just dropped ABC after 69 years at WPLG Miami—the only TV station Buffett owns. In this bonus episode of Life After News, Jason talks with Adam R. Jacobson, editor-in-chief of the Radio + Television Business Report, about: • The history behind Miami’s TV station shake-ups and why the WPLG/ABC split is ...
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2 months ago
20 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Leyna Nguyen From Anchor Desk to Financial Powerhouse with
Send us a text Former KCAL 9 anchor Leyna Nguyen spent 25 years in TV news—Los Angeles, Sacramento, Augusta. What came next? A bold new life filled with reinvention: ✨ A not-so-safe-for-work podcast (“Consenting Adults”) ✨ A YouTube channel teaching English to Vietnamese speakers (100K+ subs!) ✨ And now, her true calling: building Van May Financial and helping people plan smarter for retirement 💼💰 In this episode, Leyna opens up about: The moment she knew it was time to leave TV n...
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2 months ago
48 minutes

Life After News
🌦️ Tom Skilling spent 45 years forecasting Chicago’s wildest weather — now he’s sounding the alarm about the future of science.
Send us a text Beloved for turning complex forecasts into must-watch TV, Tom has traded daily broadcasts for a new mission: protecting the research, truth, and science that keep us safe. For 45 years, Tom Skilling was Chicago’s go-to source for weather — trusted, beloved, and known for making complicated science easy to understand. Now, a year and a half into retirement, Tom is proving life after news can be just as full of passion, purpose, and even a little adrenaline. In this conversation,...
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3 months ago
50 minutes

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🎙️ From the Newsroom to Creating a TV Series Starring Kerry Washington, Life After News:
Send us a text Tracy McMillan on Reinvention, Unprisoned & Writing What Hurts What do TV news deadlines, Paris heartbreaks, and Oprah have in common? Tracy McMillan. In this deeply honest, wildly inspiring conversation, bestselling author, TV host, and Unprisoned creator Tracy McMillan sits down with Jason Ball to talk about her journey from local news writer to viral sensation to Hollywood showrunner. From writing copy for Tom Brokaw to creating her own Hulu series starring Kerry Washing...
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3 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

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🎙️ David Begnaud Interviews Jason: Flipping the Mic on Life After News
Send us a text In this episode, Life After News host Jason Ball switches seats and lets his longtime friend and former KTLA colleague David Begnaud—Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent—take over the mic. David turns the tables to ask Jason the questions: Why did you really leave news? What were you chasing—or escaping? Who are you without the title? Jason opens up about: 📺 Leaving KTLA at the top of his game—and why the January 6th insurrection was the breaking point😰 The stress he didn’t even...
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3 months ago
55 minutes

Life After News
🎙️ Drag Saved My Life — The Story of JD Cargill aka Anita Doll, Life After News 💄
💄 What happens when a former CNN entertainment producer trades celebrity interviews for contour palettes and a tour buse? Meet JD Cargill — or as Palm Springs now knows her, Anita Doll. In this wildly fun, deeply moving, and at times jaw-droppingly honest conversation, Jason Ball interviews JD during his full transformation into Anita Doll — lashes, foundation, and all. Together they unpack how JD went from chasing fame to creating joy, and how drag didn’t just change his career — it saved hi...
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3 months ago
46 minutes

Life After News
Send us a text 🎧 Larry Welk: Veteran helicopter reporter, aviation entrepreneur, and grandson of television legend Lawrence Welk 🚁 Episode Summary If you’ve ever watched a police pursuit in Los Angeles, chances are you’ve heard Larry Welk’s voice from above. Larry was in the helicopter for the very first televised police pursuit in L.A. history in 1992 and he’s been part of nearly every major aerial story since. In this episode, Jason Ball catches up with Larry to talk about his remarkable jo...