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Podcast: Live With CDP Sports Talk and Entertainment Talk
Episode: Live With CDP Sporta Talk, Guest: Eli Ong, WGN News Digital Journalist, Season #9, Episode #26, December 12th, 2024
Description: Eli Ong, official job title at WGN is ‘Digital Supervising Producer,’ which essentially translates to Ong being a newsprint-style journalist who works for a television news station — meaning I write articles for WGN’s website and help get our news content out across social media, all of which I’ve done since joining the digital team in June 2022.
My work at WGN is split between covering Chicago-area sports (primarily the Bears, followed by the Cubs and White Sox), and writing breaking news articles on traditional news topics (crime, business, politics, etc.).
For example, when it comes to sports, I write a co...