Ten Unforgettable News Stories Revisited, NBC's Emmy Winning Jen Maxfield on The Jim Masters Show
Jen Maxfield is an Emmy Award–winning reporter and anchor who joined NBC New York in 2013. Prior to joining the station, she worked for Eyewitness News (ABC7) in New York City as a reporter and substitute anchor for ten years. Maxfield started her broadcast career in 2000 in upstate New York before moving to New York City in 2002. She has reported live from thousands of news events over her 22-year career and estimates that she has interviewed more than ten thousand people. \n\nOn this episode of The Jim Masters ShowLIVE! series, Jen Maxfield joins award-winning television, radio, multimedia personality and host Jim Masters for an amazing conversation as she returns to ten unforgettable news stories and shares updates on all of them with us.\n\nMaxfield is an adjunct professor at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. A graduate of the class of 2000, she enjoys coming back to her alma mater to educate a new generation of journalists.\n\nEmmy Award–winning reporter and news anchor Jen Maxfield has seen just about everything in her more than two decades on the air. But what happens after a story is reported, once the cameras are turned off? In MORE AFTER THE BREAK: A Reporter Returns to Ten Unforgettable News Stories. Maxfield revisits stories that have been transformative for the subjects and have also changed her life.\n\nMaxfield introduces readers to people whose hopefulness and perseverance, even when these individuals were, and are, confronting life’s greatest heartbreaks, will inspire. MORE AFTER THE BREAK shares the stories, both past and present, of:\n\n· Paul Esposito, a 24-year-old waiter who lost both legs and nearly lost his life in the horrific 2003 Staten Island ferry crash\n\n· Tamika Tompkins, a young mother who was stabbed 27 times by her abusive ex-boyfriend and ultimately was saved by her toddler daughter, who lay on top of her to stop the bleeding\n\n· Zaina, the high-achieving 5th grader who survived every parent’s nightmare when her school bus crashed during a field trip and who is now starting high school\n\n· Chris Clemente, an Ivy League undergrad sentenced to decades in prison under the now-defunct Rockefeller Drug Laws\n\n· The family of Darren Drake, a young man in the prime of his life killed by a terrorist who plowed down a bike path in lower Manhattan\n\n· The Ellis and Middleton families, who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, and the Borelli family, destitute after Hurricane Sandy, along with the Good Samaritans who helped them in their worst moments\n\nReturning to find these people years—even decades—after initially telling their stories on the news gave Maxfield the opportunity to ask: What happened after the live truck pulled away? What’s the rest of this story?\n\nPlease subscribe to our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/jimmasterstv and click the notification bell so you never miss any of our series episodes.\n \nIf you enjoyed this video episode, please give it a thumbs up like and leave a comment for us! Thank you! Share this video too! \n\nCheck out several hundred more episodes of The Jim Masters Show entertainment, lifestyle, talk show series right here on our YouTube channel Jim Masters TV. Enjoy!\n\nJoin Jim on social media!\n\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/jimmasterstv\nInstagram: www.instagram.com/jimmasterstv\nTwitter: www.twitter.com/jimmasterstv\n\n#jenmaxfieldnbc #jenmaxfieldreporter #jimmasterstv #thejimmmastersshow