Emmy Award-Winning Journalist • Media Consultant • Executive Producer & Professor • Multimedia & Tech Blogger • Host & Visual Storyteller • Writer & Children's Book Author • Lifestyle Expert • Certified Nutrition Specialist
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Olivia Smith is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and media consultant based in Los Angeles. She is the Executive Producer of Next Generation Storytelling at ABC7. Olivia is responsible for leading a team of Community Journalists and for helping drive innovative storytelling techniques across the organization. She is a manager as well as an active content creator. Olivia focuses on telling stories for all media platforms in addition to supervising and training others at the company. Prior to ABC7, Olivia helped build the digital video teams for ABC Network News and Good Morning America.

Olivia has reported from the Oscars red carpet, from a marijuana field, from the top of a mountain and from a sleeper bus across the country. She has covered topics like female genital cutting and black market drugs. Olivia has been to wildfires, chased kidnappers, traveled to political conventions and even become a mermaid for a day. She is most passionate about human interest and feature reporting.

Olivia has a number of passion projects outside of her day job. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of Media Consulting Coaches, where she offers services for on-camera training and content creation courses. She is the Founder and CEO ofGet Savvy with Social, a media, tech and lifestyle company and blog. She is also an Adjunct Professor at theUSC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Olivia is aCertified Nutrition Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine as well. She is also a children’s book author of a series she created with her father about detective dogs.

Olivia is a content creator with extensive experience of 20+ years in print, broadcast, multimedia and digital journalism, as well as with local, national and international reporting. She has worked on stories for several media organizations throughout her career, including ABC News, Good Morning America,CNN,CNN Business,60 Minutes,Al Jazeera,NY1 News and the Columbia Journalism Review.

Follow Olivia for day-to-day updates on her work @LivNews and #LivWell.