I am so grateful for the Journalists being willing to share their stories with me. I hope that their stories will help you understand and respect what Journalists go through everyday.
If you are a Journalist, I hope you will feel comfortable sharing your trauma and understanding that it is normal to be affected by the stories you cover.
Sara Gilman PsyD., LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Dr. Gilman, is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, with a doctorate degree in Psychology. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the effects of cumulative traumatic stress exposure in first responders. She is the co-founder of Coherence Associates, a professional counseling group in San Diego, CA. As a former San Diego, Rural Firefighter/EMT, she served on the San Diego CISM Team for over a decade, and was awarded Fellowship status with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress for her work. She is past President of the EMDR International Association Board of Directors. Trained in Disaster Mental Health and Psychological First Aid, she consults with companies and government agencies to build strong peer support teams, and trains personnel in focusing on the importance of maintaining resilience. Her genuine Spirit, dedication and passion is recognized throughout the country, as she advocates for effective mental health access for first responders, business teams and families.
Email me: info@coherenceassociates.com
Web Page: www.CoherenceAssociates.com
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Greg Lee
Reporter
Greg Lee is a reporter, multi-media journalist and most importantly, a storyteller. He is currently the political reporter at KTVU in San Francisco.
Over the last decade, he’s worked in television news in many different capacities: producer, sports anchor, reporter. At the core of what he does, is a passion to share information and compelling stories with the community.
Email me: Gregory.Lee@FOXTV.COM
Rob McMillan
Reporter
Rob McMillan is the Eyewitness News Inland Empire bureau chief. He joined ABC7 in 2007.
Rob’s assignment was a homecoming for him: He grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, graduated from Alta Loma High School and earned his broadcast journalism degree from the University of Southern California.
Rob’s first on-air job was at KRCR, where he worked as a bureau reporter in Chico, CA. After that, Rob spent three years in the much cooler climate of Spokane, WA as a reporter for KAYU.
From there, Rob returned to the warmer temperatures of California when he became a reporter in Palm Springs covering the Coachella Valley, just east of the Inland Empire.
Rob’s next stop was in Las Vegas, NV at KVBC before returning to Southern California to work in his hometown for ABC7.
Rob is excited to connect with our viewers in Riverside County and San Bernardino County, and cover the stories meaningful to the people of the Inland Empire.
Email me: rob.m.mcmillan@abc.com
Terry McSweeney
Reporter
Terry McSweeney anchors the weekend edition of NBC Bay Area News at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. and reports during the week.
Terry recently joined NBC Bay Area from KGO in San Francisco, where he had been a reporter and fill-in anchor since 2007. Prior to that, he worked in newsrooms all over the country including KTXL in Sacramento, WPBF in Palm Beach, KSAZ in Phoenix, and WTEN in Albany. At WTEN, he reported live from New York City after the September 11 terrorist attacks and was named “Best Anchor” by the Albany Times Union.
Terry’s return to NBC Bay Area is a homecoming – he previously worked for the station as a general assignment reporter from 1987 to 1995. During that time he was honored with two Edward R. Murrow Awards for his news reporting and coverage of breaking news.
Terry is a San Francisco native, a devoted father, and a life-long Giants and 49ers fan. He attended UC Berkeley and graduated from San Francisco State University in 1981 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.
Email me: terry.mcsweeney@nbcuni.com
Alle Pierce
Journalist / Host
Alle Pierce is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, freelance show host, travel expert, digital content creator, and podcaster. After years of working in local TV news, Alle felt the itch to get out from behind the anchor desk and see the world. In 2018, she left the news business to launch her brand “Alle Abroad” where she helps her community of more than 18,000 overpacking, luxury-loving, independent women travel deeper on their next adventure. Alle expanded her career to include helping brands, companies and tourism boards tell their stories as an on-camera host and producer. Alle has traveled to 33 countries, co-founded a luxury travel production company most recently followed in her mom’s footsteps as the newest travel advisor at Scorby Travel and Cruise.
Alle is also the host of the half podcast half IGTV show, “When Being Cliquish® is Good” ShowCast which teaches tens of thousands of content creators each week how to build, grow and profit from their online businesses.
Visit: AlleAbroad
Instagram: @AllePierce Youtube: @Alle Abroad Facebook: Alle Pierce Twitter: @AllePierce
Cooper Rummell
Reporter
Cooper studied Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. After dabbling with writing and broadcast Cooper decided that radio was the thing for him. He got a job at KTAR covering the Phoenix area and then landed a job at KNX radio in Los Angeles. He now works at Saddleback Church using his journalism skills with their Storytelling Ministry.
Chris Tarpening
Videographer/Editor/Live Truck Operator/Field Producer
Born outside of Tokyo Japan to Parents Dick and Carol Tarpening. I grew up in a Military family and eventually entered the Military himself at the age of 20.
Through grade school and high school was most active in Music. Performed in the 1984 Olympics honor High School regiment and performed the Tournament of Roses parade Honor Marching band. Joined the US Air Force in in June 1990 and cont’d playing music in Drum and bugle corps at basic training and trade school. After getting assignment in Charleston South Carolina also was on details of military funerals where I would perform Taps for our fallen Veterans.
It wasn’t until 1998 and by chance I got into news. Interned for several weeks and saw things i never thought I would see. Seeing through the lens and telling people’s stories brought my interests higher.
In the beginning when I went to the movies I was looking at camera angles more than figuring out plots. How did the DP do that was a lot of my questions. Once I learned the basics I kept on wanting to learn more. Finally after 4 years in a small market I moved on to work in San Diego. It was a nice move as I got to work with seasoned reporters and photographers for 5 years and learn and absorb what they had to teach when out in the field. Near the end of my 5 years there I wanted to learn more so I started studying at a school in Oceaneering. I almost completed to the school in underwater diving and filming till I found out my neck had serious problems and the scary part of deep water diving is decompression and loss of consciousness for myself. So I ended my journey there to be a deep water videographer for filming under the glaciers and the underwater surfaces yet to be explored.
So I returned to the Desert of the Coachella Valley. To once again be a videographer telling more stories.
In my years I have been nominated for several Emmy’s. I have won 3 Emmy’s and have been part of many others that have gone on for wins as well.
I love being behind the Lens. Listening to the sounds and capturing moments. Besides capturing video for news all these 22 years in the business now I keep my sanity by escaping to solitude. Camping, hiking, the ocean and being on water calms my soul. If there’s beauty to be captured everyone know’s Tarps capturing that. Oh yeah Everyone calls me Tarp. I love colors the more vibrant the better.
Sunsets and sunrises are mostly the time I love to capture and there’s animals and rural communities away from city life that makes me at peace as well.
Craig Marks
Composer / Producer / Sound Supervisor / Re-Recording Mixer
On any given day, award winning composer Craig Marks can be found hard at work in the studio coaxing rhythm and melody from an extensive array of “instruments” – many bought or found, some built specifically for projects by Marks himself. Buzz saws, antenna arrays, and a horrifically broken dishwasher have all found their places in his scores. “There’s music in everything,” Marks says, “the trick is matching tonality and emotion.”
Best known for his “saber rattling gladiator music” that defined Food Network’s IRON CHEF AMERICA properties [Detroit Free Press] and his “brilliant” theme music for A&E’s Emmy award winning series INTERVENTION [BlogCritics Magazine], Marks has composed for feature films, network and cable television, games, and commercials as well as the concert hall.
Lens Flares: Trauma in Journalism 