Out on the Job Hunt!

I will be graduating from Elon University in May 2010, so I’m starting to apply for jobs.

Here is my final reel, created with four years of Elon tuition in mind. It is shot, written and edited primarily by me.

My top stories from 2009

All of my recent work can be found on my YouTube account: Randy’s YouTube

The website for Phoenix14News

And here are some stories from this year that I enjoyed.

This story won first place nationwide in the Hearst National Journalism Competition (June 2009)

More info at the Hearst Website.

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H1N1 Hits Colleges Hard (September 2009)

Fox News Channel also let me do a live hit from Elon after showing this piece.

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This was my favorite story to produce — a travel piece: Fly Fishing in Asheville (April 2009)

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Kicking Crime in Burlington (May 2009)

About Me

My name is Randy Gyllenhaal, a Junior Broadcast Journalism major at Elon University.

Here you will find YouTube videos of my work for Phoenix14News, Elon University’s award winning student newscast. You will also find links to web-reports I have done for ABC World News while interning in Washington last summer, and work I have done for print journalism outlets including The New York Times and Elon’s Pendulum. I was recently honored by the Hearst Foundation in their Broadcast Journalism Championship, winning First Place nationally for Television News.

Live shot during Breaking News

Covering the Inauguration

I like to consider myself a multimedia-journalist. No longer is news limited to ink, to tape, or to sound. All of it is merging, and I’m trying to learn about it at the forefront.

Inauguration 2009

A crew of Phoenix14News and Pendulum staff members traveled up to Washington for Barack Obama’s inauguration. Throughout the days leading up to January 20th, I filed reports and did live-shots for our broadcast, and posted my stories to YouTube and Facebook before they even aired.

The Capital the night before Inauguration

Continue to see the reports I put together.

Hard News

The lead story these days is usually the economy. Local businesses shutting down…homelessness on the rise…tough news to report.

Poor Economy Hitting Main St. in N.C.

Continue to see these stories.

Web and Print Reporting

While interning at ABC News in Washington, I did a lot of reporting for their interactive website. I covered the healthcare beat with Correspondent Lisa Stark. The Salmonella outbreak, falsely linked to tomatoes, was the big story that summer. I also covered in-depth the rising costs of health care. These stories were unique to ABC’s dot-com unit.

I interned in ABC's Washington Bureau for World News.

I have also done reporting in the print field since high school. I was lucky enough to work with a copy editor at the New York Times in 2006. He let me write an article that was printed in the Sunday Art’s Section

I was able to write for the NYTimes in 2006.

At Elon, I wrote for the Pendulum my Freshman year; and since then have covered many big stories — from the South Carolina Primaries to Eve Carson’s death — right along side them.

Continue to see these my ABC, New York Times and Pendulum articles.

Feature Reporting

Tattoos are no longer Taboo

A tattoo parlor that’s changing the way people see body art…

And lions and tigers…living just north of a University campus.

Continue to see these stories.