Today we’d like to introduce you to Marcine Joseph.
Hi Marcine, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
During high school, my aunt told me about a media scholarship called “The Emma Bowen Foundation”. It’s a foundation that puts high school graduates minorities in different media outlets with a paid internship. Plus the scholarship would pay for college. I had no intentions of going to college for media or journalism. I was going for a degree in Technology.
But because they would pay for college I applied a couple of months before graduating high school in 2012. To my surprise, I was selected for the internship and was paired with one of my local TV stations, WTVJ NBC 6 Miami. The internship was four years and during those years. I would work every summer at NBC 6 and would work in different departments. From ratings to Production to being a sports and news writer. My internship finished but I still had two semesters left at Florida International University because of my Information technology Degree.
I applied for a position at WPLG ABC Miami as an assignment editor, which is a fact-checker and got the job. I spent 3 years at ABC Miami. Working at the assignment desk in one of the fastest TV markets in the nation was like “baptism by fire”. I learned so much from my boss the Assignment Manager Peggy Phillip. She pushed me to be a reporter after noticing the potential in me. After I graduated from FIU in Fall 2017, I began going out in the field with the news photographers at breaking news stories.
I was basically training to become a reporter. While going out in the field they had me do traffic reporting on air. So I made my TV on-air debut in a top 20 market like Miami. It was a blessing. At WPLG I worked on major national stories such as the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Rapper XXXtentacion Death, Hurricane Irma coverage, just to name a few. While I went out on the field with the news photographers. I created a newsreel that landed me a Multi-Media Journalist or Reporter job at a local station in Sarasota in 2019.
Then I came back home to Miami and accepted a reporter position at NBC Miami, where I did my 4-year internship during college. It was an amazing full-circle moment! Especially to be the first on-air Haitian-American Reporter in the South Florida TV market. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to report important Haitian as well as Caribbean stories. Such as the Miami-Broward Carnival Festival, the assassination of the Haitian President, and the devastating Haiti Earthquake.
From Dade county, I came to Duuuval County where there was an opportunity at Action News Jax that I couldn’t pass. To become the new Morning Traffic Anchor.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Any career will have a few bumps along the way. But I can say, they have made me stronger. 2020 was a tough year for everyone in the world. It was a trying year and I had to really self check myself to see if I still wanted to pursue a career in news.
While dealing with a global pandemic I felt under-supported by news management, and some coworkers but still pushed through.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
As a news reporter and journalist, I personally like to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to have their voice heard.
No matter who it is or what their past is. The most recent story I’m most proud of is having the opportunity to interview Kodak Black for a community event he did for breast cancer survivors and fighters. He’s not typically portrayed in the media for “positive” things mostly negative.
He personally thank me for actually caring to cover his event.
Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
Parents are my biggest cheerleaders. My mom and dad are so supportive of my career even when I had to leave South Florida. My coworkers at WPLG Local 10 in Miami pushed me out of my comfort zone to even consider being on TV.
I especially thank my former boss, Peggy Phillip, who made the executive decision to get me off the assignment desk and get in front of a camera.
Contact Info:
- Email: mjoseph@actionnewsjax.com
- Website: actionnewsjax.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mj_reports/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MarcineJosephTV
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MJ_Reports
Image Credits
Headshot photographed by Action News Jax
