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 experience, how it inspired her to pursue journalism, her story that helped a wrongly-arrested woman get out of jail, the news gathering app she's developing, getting her Master's from Syracuse, we swap "Fresno life" storiesg in Fresno, and how she adopted a rescue pup! https://www.facebook.com/ABC7Veronica https://www.twitter.com/abc7veronica https://www.instagram.com/abc7veronica Hear more about Veronica in her episode of The Career Stories Podcast with Natalie Brunell: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/veronica-miracle-kabc-reporter-anchor/id1451439126?i=1000430337655 ••• You can hear The News Bender Podcast host Aron Bender on The Tim Conway Jr Show weeknights 6-10 on KFI AM 640 in Los Angeles and on the iHeartRadio app. The News Bender Podcast blog http://newsbender.com/ https://twitter.com/aronbender https://www.instagram.com/aronbender ••• Support The News Bender Podcast by supporting our sponsors: Don Francisco's Coffee https://www.donfranciscos.com/shop ••• Jingle courtesy of Bradley & Jammie Hampton [email protected]