We would go out and cover stories on campus. We always had meetings, and we did a lot of work. We dedicated a lot of time every week to a newscast. “Q30 helped me a lot, just in terms of giving me that hands-on TV experience.
“I wouldn’t be where I am without what I did with Q30 and my classwork,” Galal told Quinnipiac Magazine in 2019. She made history with her debut on the desk in 2021, becoming the first woman in hijab to anchor a newscast in Connecticut.
Galal, of Prospect, was the first from the on-air quartet to join the network in the do-it-all, hybrid role of reporter/producer in 2018. “We were doing the same things in college a few years ago and now we're doing it again in the newsroom here and I think all of us just have a great feeling about where we are,” said Fearon, a Tenafly, New Jersey native who captained the men’s cross country team as a senior in 2016. Four more - producers Shannon Kane ’98, Melissa Scagliola ’05, Kelly Ledwith ’17 and Katie Coen MS ’23 - made important contributions from the control room in the station’s Rocky Hill headquarters.Ī life in broadcast news can be nomadic and lonely, but a growing contingent of Bobcats have found a cozy professional home about 20 miles north of the leafy campus where they first learned the craft. That’s four recent graduates of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac, all playing prominent roles in WFSB’s wall-to-wall coverage of Winter Storm Anthony. And before the broadcast was over, Eliza Kruczynski ’20 - who documented the driving conditions aboard the Early Warning Weather Tracker the night before - turned in a feel-good story about high schoolers in Southington who volunteered their shoveling services to some snowed-in neighbors. Minutes later, Ayah Galal ’17, the station’s Hartford bureau chief and occasional anchor, bundled up to give an update on a special election in Middletown.
and finished her shift five hours later with an on-air snow angel - more effective for demonstrating the depth of the fresh powder than the traditional yardstick.Ī little after 5 p.m., Dylan Fearon ’17, MS ’18, appeared on the evening edition of Eyewitness News to report on the sledding conditions at Elizabeth Park in Hartford, absorbing a few stray snowballs in his pursuit of the truth.
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