Julian Crews

About Julian Crews

Versatile, entrepreneurial professional with extensive experience covering broad range of…

Experience

1. News Reporter Midwest Travel Host Executive Producer- Special Programming

   WGN-TV

   May 1996 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Work as trusted source of Chicago-area, Midwest, national, and international news. Deliver live breaking news on various stories, including politics, civil unrest, Papal visits, pandemic response, climate change, weather disasters, and State and Federal Court cases. Created and served as host of WGN’s “Cruisin” Midwest Travel series.• Demonstrated experience directing highly mobile collaborative team of assignment editors, broadcast news photographers, satellite truck engineers, and producers daily, covering developing news reports under stressful, enormously challenging, and dangerous environments.• Delivered exemplary live reporting on contentious, high-profile stories of national / international interest, includingo 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin riots / 2021 Kyle Rittenhouse trial servicing multi-platform WGN-TV News, WGN radio, and News Nation;o 2020 to present federal, state, and local pandemic assessment, response, and relief;o 2020 Chicago civil unrest in the wake of controversial police shootings;o 2019 murder trial for former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke;o 2010 Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich federal corruption trial;o 2008 coverage of President Barack Obama’s Election Night Speech in Grant Park.• Achieved Emmy nominations from 2007 to 2020 for creating WGN-TV’s Cruisin’ travel series, researching, naming, branding, developing, and producing original multi-platform content servicing affiliate news outlets across the region, executing long-form shoots and overseeing pre-production and editing for annual 3-month-long presentations.• Project managed multi-camera live coverage of Papal visit to St. Louis, MO and historic 1998 John Paul II trip to Havana, Cuba, and interview with Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, overseeing all logistics planning, remote editing capabilities, securing satellite time, scheduling interviews, and collaborating with news engineers, photographers, and producers to produce market-leading coverage.

Education

• University of Houston

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

Skills

• Public Relations
• Media Relations
• Video
• Journalism
• Non-Linear Editing
• Social Media
• Editing
• Broadcast Journalism
• Social Media Marketing
• Broadcast
• Broadcasting
• Press Releases
• Television
• Video Production
• Blogging
• Broadcast Television