Reporter Admits to Doing Fake Stories to Land Job (Patreon)

WGCL (Atlanta) Digital Reporter Iyani Hughes (Lenice) posted a tweet about how she was able to land a job in TV news. 

She says that she never did an internship at a TV station until after she graduated. 

She also says that she bought her own camera and "made up fake stories, ect." 

She then goes on to say that, "2 and a half years later....I'm  an actual media professional."

She posted the tweet to tell others not to give up on their dreams and don't quit. 

We agree with much of what she said. FTVLive took out a loan for almost $2,000 to buy a camera, despite the fact that we had no job. We used the camera to shoot spot news stories and sell the video to WKBW in Buffalo.

That led to me landing a full-time job as a News Photographer. 

If you want the job, you have to go the extra mile. But, we would advise against MAKING UP stories as Hughes said she did. 

Here is a screenshot of her post: