Aron Bender hosts The News Bender Podcast, spending a lot of time talking with a lot of media people about their lives and journeys, both personal and professional. But lately I'm just doing relatively quick conversations with reporters and others about their life and work during the coronavirus pandemic. This episode features KESQ Palm Springs Assistant News Director Tim Kiley. We talk about what it's like to still go in to the newsroom everyday, the difficulties of home schooling, and...

Aron Bender hosts The News Bender Podcast, and lately's talking with his media friends about life and work during the coronavirus pandemic. This episode features "Big Brother Jake" Warner, host of The Big Brother Jake Podcast. He also works at PodcastOne and runs audio for Clippers and Kings games at Staples Center. We talk about his podcast, how he's adjusting to life without working basketball and hockey games, and coordinating quarantines. And we get to listen to the beat he made just for...

Aron Bender talks with reporters and others in media about how they're dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, how it's changed the way they live and work. This episode features CNBC Fast Money's Guy Adami. We get into the economy and stock market, how he handles doing Fast Money by phone from his home in New Jersey, and what it's been like going from just him and his wife at the house to having all three kids home from college -- including a son who was studying abroad in Italy! Connect...

Aron Bender is talking with reporters and others in media about their experiences dealing with and covering the coronavirus pandemic. In this episode I talk with BEONDTV's Carlos Amezcua. He spent nearly three decades anchoring TV news in Los Angeles on KTLA and Fox 11, and spent some time hosting radio shows and doing TV in San Diego. Now he's helped create BEOND.TV, hosting a morning show with Lisa Remillard that can also be seen on KDOC-TV weekday mornings at 8 in Southern California. I...

Aron Bender continues his series of conversations with reporters and others in media about their experiences dealing with and covering the coronavirus pandemic. This episode features comedian turned radio guy turned real estate agent Justin Worsham. I worked with Justin in radio for a few years. He's such a great guy. And hilarious! We talk about life in real estate during self-isolation, how his wife and sons are handling things, and what he's binging on! Connect with...

Aron Bender talks with journalists and media personalities about their experiences dealing with and covering coronavirus. In this episode I talk with LAist and KPCC writer and editor Ryan Fonseca, who is also one of my colleagues teaching in the Journalism Department at Cal State Northridge. We get into what it's like working at home with his wife, their social distance experience getting fresh air at Griffith Park, and how a self-described "not a puzzle guy" ended up with a 1000-piece...

Aron Bender continues his series of conversations with people in media about their experiences dealing with and covering coronavirus. In this episode I talk with ESPN's Travis Rodgers about the transition to remote broadcasting, home life, and how he talks to his teenage kids about the pandemic. You can hear Travis weekday mornings on ESPN Los Angeles 710 with Keyshawn and LZ. Connect with Travis: Twitter Instagram Facebook Listen to Mornings with Keyshawn, Travis and...

Aron Bender's continuing series of conversations with reporters and others in media about their experiences covering and dealing with coronavirus. Host of KCRW's All Things Considered, Larry Perel, joins me to chat about challenges of working remotely, having one of his daughters move back home during the pandemic while the other is staying in Florida, and what he's binging on now that he's home all the time. Connect with Larry: Twitter KCRW ••• Jingle courtesy of Bradley...

Aron Bender's continuing series of conversations with reporters and others in media about their experiences covering and dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Fox 11 anchor and host Elex Michaelson was the first guest of The News Bender Podcast when it started in February 2019. He's back to talk about what his life has been like the last few weeks, including his new show with Dr. Drew Pinsky called "Coronavirus Crisis" every night at 7. You can watch Elex every weeknight on the 5 and 10pm...

Aron Bender is back with The News Bender Podcast, focusing (for now) on life for reporters and others in media covering and dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. In this episode I talk with Business Insider Senior Editor Bryan Logan about how he's handling the "new normal." We worked together in radio for a few years but now he's driving the transportation beat at BI. Check out his stories here. I talk with Bryan about working remotely, his plans for a 4am run to Vons, and his analysis of...

Aron Bender returns with new episodes of The News Bender Podcast, focusing on life for reporters and people in media dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. In this episode I'm joined by Beto Duran, a podcaster, sports reporter, commentator and host. He calls himself "Mr. 1099" because of all of his freelance work. But how's he doing now that sports is on hold? We talk about life with middle- and high-schoolers in self-isolation, how much Univision he's been watching with his parents, and how...

Aron Bender is back with new episodes of The News Bender Podcast, starting a series of conversations with people in media about how they're covering and dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. In this episode I talk with ESPN host/reporter Jorge Sedano. You can hear him weekdays 10am-noon on 710 ESPN Los Angeles, and he's one of ESPN's NBA sideline reporters. We get into how he's adjusting to all-of-a-sudden working from home (he just moved last week!) after spending the last few years...

Aron Bender has hosted The News Bender Podcast since early 2019. And I'm going to stop referring to myself in the third person. KFI news editor Nikki Campbell suggested she interview me for the podcast since she's the co-worker who's known me the longest. And I wanted to do something special for my 50th episode. So there we go! We talked about my origin story, my life growing up in Covina, California, how I ended up ditching my business major while going to Mt. SAC in Walnut, and eventually...

Kacey Montoya is a reporter and does the weather at KTLA in Los Angeles. She joined the station in 2013 after working in Oregon, Palm Springs and West Virginia. The Orange County native spent her childhood in Dallas but returned to LA to go to Cal State Northridge for her broadcast journalism degree. Kacey uses her platform to help dogs with her Fix' n Fidos Non-Profit Spay/Neuter program. She's won awards for her reporting on the Pawsitive Change inmate/canine program. And what's a...

Ralph Garman is an actor, comedian and impressionist who hosts The Ralph Report Podcast, co-hosts the Hollywood Babble-On Podcast with Kevin Smith, was on Kevin & Bean on KROQ for nearly 20 years, hosted The Joe Schmo Show, and has a bunch of movie and TV credits -- including all kinds of voices on Family Guy. Ralph's originally from Philadelphia, and way back when drove to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He eventually fell into radio, and his fill-in gig with Kevin and Bean...

Fritz Coleman does weather at NBC4 in Los Angeles. He joined Channel 4 in 1982 after being discovered while doing stand-up comedy. Fritz grew up in the Philadelphia area, went to Temple University in Phillie and Salem College in West Virginia, studying radio, TV and film. He used that education while in the US Navy. During his FM DJ days in Buffalo he tried comedy at an open mic night, and was hooked! A little while later Fritz picked up and drove out to Los Angeles to pursue his stand-up...

Veronica Miracle is a reporter and fill-in anchor at ABC7 in Los Angeles. Before moving to Southern California in 2017 she worked at KFSN ABC30 in Fresno and KLEW-TV in tiny Lewiston, Idaho. The Washington State University alum was born in Japan but raised in the Seattle area. While Veronica was in high school her parents divorced, and then her dad went to federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme. He was released in early 2019. We talk about the challenges she's faced because of that...

Ellen K hosts mornings on KOST 103.5 in Los Angeles, and hosts her own nationally syndicated weekend show. Before getting her own show in 2015 she spent more than a decade as Ryan Seacrest's co-host on 102.7 KIIS FM, and alongside hall of famer Rick Dees for more than a decade before that! Ellen -- who initially went to Purdue University to become a veterinarian -- has done radio in Indianapolis, Modesto, San Diego and San Francisco. We talk about work-life balance as a new mom working early...

George Noory hosts the late night radio talk show Coast to Coast AM, heard on 600+ stations and the iHeartRadio app every night 1am-5am EST / 10pm-2am PST. The show covers all kinds of topics, especially the paranormal, near death and out of body experiences (including George's own), extraterrestrials, conspiracy theories, Bigfoot, climate change, remote viewing ... you name it! George has done it all: reporter, anchor, talk show host, executive producer, author, US Naval Reserve lieutenant,...

Doug Gottlieb hosts weekday afternoons 3pm-6pmET/12pm-3pmPT on Fox Sports Radio, is an analyst on FS1 and hosts the All Ball Podcast on the Colin Cowherd Podcast Network. He grew up in Orange County, played basketball at Notre Dame, but then had to leave school after he was caught using other students' credit cards. Looking back, Doug figures he was clinically depressed while he was in South Bend, and started seeing a therapist when he got back to Orange County. He went to Golden West College...

Josh Mankiewicz is a correspondent with Dateline NBC, covering stories for the news magazine since 1995. He was born in California but spent a lot of his childhood in Peru and Washington, DC, and saw his father, Kennedy Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz, announce the death of Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968. Josh started as an intern with ABC News, worked local news in DC before rejoining ABC News as a correspondent in 1982, hooked up with WCBS-TV in New York City, moved to Los Angeles to work...

Lindsay McCormick is a native of Houston, but other than covering sporting events that happened to be in Texas she's spent college and all of her more than decade-long career outside of the Lone Star State. She's now based in Los Angeles. Lindsay was supposed to go to school in Texas but without even telling her parents she applied to Auburn University in Alabama. She played "reporter" as a kid and has sports in her blood -- but it was on the sidelines of an Auburn football game that she fell...

Todd Leitz is originally from the Boston area but he's lived in Los Angeles long enough I'm just going to call him a native. The UC San Diego graduate is the public address announcer at Dodger Stadium. Prior to starting that gig in 2015 the man with the beautiful beard narrowly missed becoming the San Diego Padres PA announcer at Petco Park, he was an EMT (is still certified), press deputy with LA City Councilman Tom LaBonge, spent 10 years as a reporter and anchor at KNX 1070 NewsRadio in...

Matt Harmon almost died six years ago. He was radically depressed, overweight, and abusing substances and alcohol. In this episode I talk with the Yahoo! Sports football writer, analyst and podcast host about what plunged him down the rabbit hole, how he lost 100 pounds and pulled himself out of the darkness. Harmon is most well known for creating Reception Perception -- the ultimate analysis of NFL wide receivers widely used by fantasy footballers. Prior to joining Yahoo! Sports as a fantasy...