Drennon Kimpton is currently a senior at the University of Southern California. She is studying Broadcast Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism. Drennon was born in San Francisco and since she started studying at USC she moved to LA.
In January, she began as an associate producer for a publishing company called Vice News, which is an international news channel. After 10 months of working, there she has written several articles for their website. The most recent one was about how El Salvador’s government is considering ending the practice of separating prisoners based on their gang affiliation. She still works for this news outlet and frequently writes article for their online website.
Drennon also writes for Neon Tommy, a Los Angeles-based news source sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and at Annenberg Television News (ATVN). She is currently a reporter for ATVN, where she covers local news and goes to different press conferences around Los Angeles.
Drennon on her spare time, likes to take pictures and is active on social media. Her Twitter username is @kimpton_ATVN and you also can request to follow her on Instagram under Drennon Kimpton. She also has a Flickr account, where you can see different pictures that she has taken for several projects.
If you are interested in finding more professionally about Drennon, you can connect with her through LinkedIn. In her profile you are able to see where she has worked and also where is she studying now. She has 19 connections so far.
Drennon is very immerse into different social media platforms and on YouTube you can actually see her giving the news on Neon Tommy’s YouTube channel. In one of the videos she talks about the different news happening that day or week.
Drennon is very up to date with everything news related. She likes to work on investigative news stories. In one of her articles from Vice News she wrote a story on how McDonalds was accused of slavery in Canada. In the article you can tell that she had to investigate different facts and interviewed people related to the story. This shows that she likes to investigate stories and dig deep in to things and concepts that are controversial.
Drennon will graduate in May 2015. If you would like to contact her you can do so by emailing her at kimpton@usc.edu.
