“There are no dull stories. Humans are full of wonder. No matter how you study our history, you will always, always find it.” -Jon Bois
Welcome to my website! My name is Adam Zangari and I am a reporter for the Warwick Beacon in Warwick, Rhode Island. This is a portfolio consisting of the work I’ve done in my journalistic career both as an amateur and as a professional.
I started my journalism career at Lincoln High School. There, I did plenty of work for both our newspaper, The Lion’s Roar, and our broadcast, the LHS Advisory Report. Additionally, I did some journalism work during my high school years outside of the classroom for WPRO and WPRV.
Since then, I have had professional experience in both print and broadcast journalism, including a role as the morning news anchor for WOON, a local radio station based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
In college, I served as the managing editor for the University of Rhode Island’s student newspaper, The Good Five Cent Cigar. In addition, I worked on URI’s broadcast, 5CCN News, and produced and provided sports commentary for the university’s radio station, WRIU.
I have had professional experience in both print and broadcast journalism. This includes experience with WOON, my role as host for the Rhode Island Interscholastic League Boys Basketball State Championships on 790 The Score, and my current roles as a staff reporter for the Warwick Beacon and a freelancer for the Valley Breeze.
You can access all of my work through the tabs above.
About Me
My name is Adam Zangari and I am a graduate of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island, with a B.A. in journalism. During my high school career, I served as co-editor in chief of The Lion’s Roar and executive producer/ anchor of the LHS Advisory Report. Throughout my time in college, I was elected managing editor for the Good Five Cent Cigar after serving as a news editor and staff reporter. I also spent time as a commentator/ host for URI athletics on WRIU.
Throughout my time in high school, I won various awards for my work in the classroom. My pieces The Modern-Day Holocaust and Mbaye Diagne- A True Hero won New England Scholastic Press Association Special Achievement Awards. Additionally, my coverage of the 2018 midterm elections was a winner in the NESPA Localization Contest. I also won first place in the RI Future Business Leaders of America Journalism competition.
In college, I was given the honor of co-writing the Good Five Cent Cigar’s 50th anniversary commemoration, which can be found here.
Outside of the classroom, I did work while still in high school for two local radio stations based in East Providence- WPRO and WPRV. I worked on the air for WPRV on the show Drive-Thru Radio for over a year- April 2017 to October of 2018. In the fall of 2018, I assisted the Rhode Island gubernatorial candidates prior to their debate on WPRO. During 2018 and 2019, I did the pregame shows for the Rhode Island Interscholastic League basketball tournaments, which are broadcast on both stations. This would be a role that I would return to following the conclusion of the pandemic, hosting the tournaments on the rebranded The Score 790 in 2022 and 2023. Some of these shows can be found here.
Over the summer of 2020, I interned with The Valley Breeze, a local newspaper serving most communities in northern Rhode Island. In 2021, I earned a role freelancing with the Breeze, and worked for them throughout that summer as well. My work with them can be found on the Writing page.
In the summer of 2021, I also began a new role in broadcast journalism as the morning news anchor for WOON. In that role, I had to broadcast the news, weather, and sports to listeners, as well as edit audio and produce the show. After leaving the role during the school year, I would be hired again the following summer to work in the same role with some expanded responsibilities.
Throughout the summer of 2022, I also interned in the news department at ABC 6 in downtown Providence. While there, I helped with stories in the field and production back at the studio.
During my time in high school, I was chosen to represent my state at the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism conference in June of 2018. Since then, I’ve gone to many more national journalism camps and conferences, such as the Washington Journalism and Media Conference, and the NSPA/JEA conference in Chicago from Nov. 1-4, 2018.
This website was initially created to serve as my portfolio for the 2019 JEA Journalist of the Year competition. Thanks to this site, I can now proudly call myself the 2019 Rhode Island Student Journalist of the Year and a finalist for National Journalist of the Year.
Since then, this site has also served as my journalistic portfolio throughout my four years at the University of Rhode Island, fulfilling one of my final graduation requirements.
I believe that my work speaks for itself when it comes to my journalistic career. Hopefully you agree- click the links at the top of this page to view it.
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