When Connor McCrory was just 11 years old he remembers reading and watching the daily news with his grandparents and learning about the world while listening to his grandfather yell at the tv every time CNN would turn or when he disagreed with a reporter.

“I never really took any side in politics for the reason of not getting into fights with people who didn’t agree with one or the other side, This is where my perception of non-bias news came from.” Mr.McCrory said in an interview with RedX. According to Wikipedia, Media Bias is defined as “The bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of many events and stories that are reported and how they are covered.” This means that McCrory never incorporates opinion into his writing, just pure facts.

The Cub Journalist 

McCrory was just a young and aspiring journalist who didn’t know of any newspapers that would accept “Teens” to write for them. So he did some research and found out his local newspaper, MyBurbank News, was accepting writers of all ages for internships. Shortly after contacting the Newspaper McCrory was contacted by Craig Sherwood, the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) of the paper. Mr.Sherwood requested a meeting with McCrory at the local “Foster-Freeze” (California food chain), and the rest is history.

McCrory’s first assignment(s) at the paper was covering the local concerts as he was the paper’s Entertainment Reporter. Some of his headlines were “Graceband, Yachtley Crew Entertain at Starlight Bowl” and “Mayor’s Tree Lighting Jump Starts Burbank Holiday Spirit.” After writing for MyBurbank News for about a year, McCrory met three mentors, who would change his life.

The Mentors

Zac Jaydon is the CEO of Popwrapped Entertainment which is one of the biggest pop-culture Media companies of the 21st century.

So the question is why would Zac be interested in a teenage journalist? “It was early 2020 when I had met Mr.Jaydon, we had actually been introduced by a mutual friend, I obviously knew who he was, and I remember going up to him and giving him my card, and little did I know the next day he contacted me,” said McCrory.

Woody Martin, Is another example of one of McCrory’s mentors, Martin was a video journalist for Bloomberg Japan in the 90s and met McCrory via mutual acquaintances. “Woody has to be number 1 on my mentor list, If it wasn’t for him I would not be where I am right now,” McCrory noted.

Gene Bortnick is the COO of Sun And Sky Management and was McCrory’s boss for a few months when he worked in Talent Recruiting for the firm. When asked about Bortnick, McCrory responded with “Gene taught me how to be honest and how to really multi-task, I defiantly learned the most about business from him.”

Laura Filipowicz is the head of ConnectHerMedia and has been throwing the popular teen creator event, “The Gen Z Social Summit” since 2016. Filipowicz gave McCrory a chance to work with her and her team in late 2019 after McCrory had attended her 2019 Gen Z event. “Laura is like my second mom, I have had my fair share of ups and downs with her, but she was the first to believe in me, even when I was a pain in the butt to deal with.”

The Job Offers

The word was out that McCrory was looking to write for a new newspaper after months of downtime from an incident McCrory got into in late 2020. “I had to have got offered at least 5 jobs in the summer of 2020 alone,” McCrory said

McCrory ended up taking a contributor position with Scriberr News, a non-bias newspaper where he had gone on to cover social media and tech trends and really formed his career there. In 2020 alone McCrory has written for Yahoo News, The Los Angeles Tribune, Ed Times, Scriberr News, Centennial Beauty, Grey Journal, and more!

What’s Next

While McCrory is still learning the industry of journalism, he has high aspirations to be the next biggest social media trends, journalist. When asked “What’s next for you,” McCrory responded with “I can’t say much, but I’m currently talking to a few big publications that I want to work with.”