Lilian Manansala (Page 5)
Los Angeles, CA | AJO '21
During her time at AJO, Lilian served as Social Media Editor and a staff reporter for The Click. She was also a Video Production Fellow at Insider for the News & Documentary Team. She was also one of 30 participants selected out of 500 applications for the first cohort of the Vox Media Writer’s Workshop for Summer 2021.
She is a Los Angeles-based video journalist and writer reporting on the intersections of politics, sociology, gender, equality, and human rights. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles, with a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures and an M.A. in American Journalism from New York University.
October 19, 2020
Barbara Bradley Hagerty on How She Found the Story That Landed Her on the Cover of The Atlantic
A Q&A with journalist Barbara Bradley Hagerty on her article "Epidemic of Disbelief" for the The Atlantic.
October 14, 2020
Podcast: ‘Countervail’ on Reporters and Personal Social Media Accounts
Do public figures lose all rights of privacy to scrutiny by the public? In this episode of Countervail, Dawn Heinbach and Lilian Manansala discuss the suspension of Felicia Sonmez when she re-tweeted a story about the sexual allegation against Kobe Bryant. Because she re-tweeted the piece shortly after Bryant's death, the reporter was not only harassed and threatened online but suspended by the Washington Post. Where is the line between a reporter's personal rights on their social media accounts vs the publisher's right to control how their news staff represents the company?
October 8, 2020
Same Street, Different World
The Say Their Names: Silver Lake Memorial and how a popular neighborhood spot in Los Angeles is changed after COVID-19.
October 7, 2020
Podcast: ‘The Maeve Dunigan Show’ Roundtable on Pandemic-Related Reporting
A roundtable interview with health and wellness blogger Michelle Mackey, news reporter Lilian Manansala, and citizen journalist Robyn Huang. Hosted by Maeve Dunigan.
October 4, 2020
Hope Amid Destruction for Oregon Families
Oregon fires destroy homes of undocumented immigrants as told by a leader in their community.