For Jobina Fortson-Evans, joining CBS Atlanta’s newsroom felt less like a career move and more like a homecoming to the city that first ignited her passion for storytelling. As a child, Fortson-Evans loved interviewing people with her camcorder. Years later, she joined the Tucker High School newspaper, which sparked her interest in a journalism career.
As a student at Howard University, Fortson-Evans completed internships at a local radio station and then a television station, where broadcasting caught her attention. “It was the combination of the writing, plus pictures and sound all together, that I enjoyed,” she says. “And I haven’t really looked back.”
Fortson-Evans later held on-camera jobs with TV stations in Maryland, Kentucky, and California. Before joining CBS Atlanta’s new team, she launched and hosted ATL Live, a daily lifestyle show on Atlanta News First. Along the way, she’s navigated the turbulence of the wider journalism industry, as traditional broadcast media looks for ways to incorporate social media into their model…