About

I’m Nick Song.

In the Fall of 2023, I began working as a general assignment reporter at Maine Public as its inaugural recipient Emerging Voices Reporter Fellow, a yearlong fellowship aimed at supporting early-career radio journalists from underrepresented backgrounds. I moved to Portland, Maine where I pitched stories and provided daily news coverage for online and radio broadcast on topics for Maine’s statewide audience. I reported in the field during Maine Public’s coverage of the Lewiston mass shooting in Fall 2023, which later received a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage. I also reported on stories for NPR’s national broadcast on Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

I graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University as a double major in Journalism and History. I served as the Co-News Director for WNUR News – the news division of Northwestern’s campus radio station WNUR 89.3 FM which played three times a week. I also spent three years working as an anchor, reporter, and producer for WNUR News.

As part of Medill’s Journalism Residency, I worked for the Chicago Blackhawks as the Journalism Intern for the team in Fall 2022. I contributed daily articles for publication on the team’s official NHL.com website — conducting in person interviews with current players and team staff in the locker rooms after practices and games. Covering Blackhawks games from the press box at the United Center, I also helped manage the team website during gamedays and wrote post-game recaps.

After graduating from high school in 2018, I took a year off to work full time in radio and podcasting. I worked as the production assistant to podcaster Hrishi Hirway – creator of the podcasts Song Exploder and The West Wing Weekly. During that time I began producing They Call Us Bruce, a podcast hosted by Jeff Yang and Phil Yu (“Angry Asian Man”). The show centered on discussing Asian-American issues in entertainment.

In the Fall of 2019, I served as the Newsroom Intern for “All Things Considered” on KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. I reported regularly on stories covering the greater Southern California area to the station’s audience of half-a-million people each week.

In my free time I enjoy watching baseball, doing bar trivia, and shanking shots on the golf course.