Kizzy Cox
MULTIMEDIA JOURNALIST
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Email: kizzycox@gmail.com
Twitter: @realKizzyCox
IG: @realKizzyCox_
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New York City
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Kizzy Cox is an award-winning multimedia journalist and native New Yorker. She loves the city and has reported on many of the unique things that have happened there: from the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter protests to the Brooklyn Book Festival and the National Book Awards. As a freelance journalist for the BBC she explores local stories with international appeal, such as how gentrification affects neighborhood culture. She also previews films and explores film trends for the TV show BBC Talking Movies. Kizzy has a passion for reporting on underrepresented communities and social justice, to that end she's covered stories on stopping gang violence and urban aquaponics farms. She has written about the city and its dynamic real estate scene for curbed.com. Kizzy's also freelanced for the #1 news program in the city: Channel 7's Eyewitness News, as a digital and social media producer. In addition, Kizzy both informed and entertained in her role as correspondent and co-host for the weekly show What's the 411 TV, which focused on urban, lifestyle and entertainment news. Always on the lookout for the next interesting story makes Kizzy the journalist to know for coverage within and beyond the five boroughs. This roving reporter also loves to travel and has done reporting in the Dominican Republic, Kenya and her family's native Trinidad.
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BBC WORLD TV
In this BBC World TV segment for Talking Movies Kizzy Cox reports on the film, The Venerable W. about the Buddhist master, Ashin Wirathu who preaches bigotry against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim community. The documentary is the third in director Barbet Schroeder's "trilogy of evil." In it, Schroeder sets out to discover how a religion based on love can espouse hate.
BBC RADIO
Gentrification doesn't just make neighborhoods more expensive to live in, it gradually changes the culture of those neighborhoods as well. In Harlem, as long-time residents get pushed out due to high rents, its churches are feeling the strain. In an attempt to survive, some are deciding to sell their churches which are being turned into luxury housing. But is this sustainable? Listen to this BBC radio story to find out more.
VIDEO FOR WABC-TV (ABC7NY.COM)
Video on how to get fit with soca dancing for Eyewitness News WABC-TV
Click here for website and companion article:
http://abc7ny.com/health/jump-wave-and-wine-your-way-to-fitness-with-soca/142073/
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TV APPEARANCES
As a recurring contributor on Travel Channel's "Mysteries at the Museum" and "Beyond the Unknown,” Kizzy Cox explores history’s fascinating mysteries and brings historic relics to life. In this segment she shares the story of the invention of an indispensable item for parents: the baby diaper.
Travel Channel: Mysteries of the Museum
In this segment for Travel Channel's "Mysteries at the Museum," Kizzy Cox tells the story of one of the most daring and successful maritime rescues in history! In 1860 John Wilson, captain of the tiny brig the Minnie Schiffer came to the rescue of the SS Connaught, a huge ocean liner that had caught on fire and threatened the lives of the 600 people on board.