August Skamenca
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Broadcast journalist |
| Location | Denver/Columbia, Colorado/Missouri, United States |
| Introduction | He's only 25 and award-winning broadcast journalist August Skamenca has spent more than a decade reporting. Honored with numerous prestigious awards, Skamenca hopes to help define the next generation of broadcast journalism. His background includes covering numerous major national stories. After reporting for several years in Denver, Skamenca left Colorado for Missouri to couple experience with a degree. He is a senior at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He reports and anchors for KOMU-TV, the NBC affiliate and KBIA-FM, an NPR member station. His radio reports filed from across the country have aired nationally on ABC News Radio, CNN Radio, NPR and Metro Networks/Westwood One. |
| Interests | News, geopolitics, and, pop culture (though I profess a significant lack of knowledge in the last category). |
| Favorite movies | The art of the moving picture makes it hard to have just one. Here are a couple though...Amores Perros, Welcome to Sarajevo, and the documentary Harvest of Shame. |
| Favorite music | Blues, folk, soul, classical, rap |
| Favorite books | You name it..Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway and Richard Wright are a few that come to mind immediately. |
Why don't you ever wear a scarf? It doesn't need to be cold outside for your neck to feel naked.
Actually, I do wear scarfs...but only in the Winter. Who writes these questions anyway?