Michael Fritz
Pacific Tribune - Staff Writer
“I pride myself as a journalist and like to know a little bit about everything,” said Jerry McCormick, Associate Producer at KNSD 7/39.
McCormick is passionate about journalism. He is a member of several different journalistic organizations, National Gay & Lesbians Association and National Association of Black Journalists, just to name a couple.
“I believe in supporting diversity, that’s why I’m apart of all these groups,” said McCormick.
McCormick said that being a member of so many clubs does cost money, but he does it because he chooses to support good journalism.
McCormick has also been teaching journalism at Southwestern College for three years and estimates that he has taught over 250 students. He says that he likes to pass on everything he knows and when he sees a student he has taught succeed, “to me that means more to me than any paycheck.”
Although he is now in broadcast journalism McCormick described print media as his first love. But now that he works in broadcast he says that he is not going back because he no longer believes that a job in print media is safe due to him being laid off from the UT with 192 other people in May of 2009.
“Driving from [SWC] to Mission Valley was one of the longest drives I’ve ever had to do,” said McCormick. “Because I had to convince myself that I wasn’t going to get laid off. But when I got to the parking lot and saw all the people that were crying, I knew.”
He was given six weeks severance after being laid off and found a job at NBC 7/39 the day after his severance ran out, July 8, 2009. McCormick said that is why he believes you should always have your resume ready.
“Once you’ve been laid off and you survived you can survive anything. Somehow I’ve always known I’m going to be okay,” said McCormick
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