Irene Byon

Irene (Min Joo) Byon is a journalist and news producer.

Irene Byon
Born
Irene Min Joo Byon

Seoul, South Korea
Alma materUniversity of Southern California
OccupationJournalist, producer
EmployerNBC
OrganizationAAJA (San Diego)
TitleVice-President

Early life

Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to California at age two.[1]

While a student at the University of Southern California, she worked at Annenberg TV News starting in Fall 2010 until receiving her bachelor's degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism in 2013.[2] During her years at ATVN she was "a news anchor, weather anchor, producer, reporter, art director, studio director, and technical director".[1]

In 2011, she interned at KABC7 as an online news intern, and then in 2011-2012 at KTLA.[1] While at KTLA, an audio mishap of an anchor asking the new intern for a cup of coffee on-air resulted in her being nicknamed "Irene, the Coffee Intern" which became a running joke on the station's news broadcasts.[3] A compilation of on-air coffee-related news clips was featured as a humorous viral video by the Huffington Post in December 2011.[4]

Career

She has worked as a news producer with NBC since November 2016, and since August 2021 in New York as a booking producer.[5]

In 2019, she was nominated by the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for a regional Emmy award, along with three others from NBC 7 San Diego for best "Team Coverage".[6]

In 2020, a newscast she produced won a first place award from the San Diego chapter of Society of Professional Journalists.[7][8]

In 2021, she was again nominated for an Emmy for her work as a producer at NBC 7 San Diego for the network's mayoral debate special, along with seven of her colleagues.[9][10]

According to the San Diego chapter of the website of the Asian American Journalists Association, Byon was the organization's vice-president as of November 2021, having been on its board of directors since March 2016.[11]

Kenosha controversy

On November 18, 2021, the judge in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial announced that on the night prior, a driver of car following the jury bus was arrested, identifying himself to Kenosha police as James Morrison.[12][13] Morrison alleged to police that he was "under the supervision of" Irene Byon in New York, to follow the jury bus. During the traffic stop James Morrison called Irene Byon to talk to the police to verify what he was doing.[14][15][16][17]

References
  1. "Alumni: Irene Byon | ATVN". www.atvn.org. Archived from the original on November 18, 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  2. "Irene Byon | USC Annenberg Media Alumni". alumni.uscannenbergmedia.com. Archived from the original on November 22, 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  3. "VIDEO: KTLA Turns Audio Mishap Into Running Joke About The Station's Intern". www.adweek.com. Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  4. "WATCH: Live News Intern Blooper". HuffPost. 2011-12-22. Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2021-11-23.
  5. "Video released of Rittenhouse jury vehicle incident that got MSNBC banned". The Independent. 2021-12-02. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
  6. "2019 Emmy Award Nominees". NATAS PSW - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Pacific Southwest Chapter. 2019-05-03. Archived from the original on 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  7. "Union-Tribune wins 36 awards including top news site in local journalism contest". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2020-08-18. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  8. "The San Diego Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 2020 Award Winners" (PDF). August 17, 2020.
  9. "NATAS-PSW Emmy Nominees for May 2021". NATAS PSW - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Pacific Southwest Chapter. 2021-05-02. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  10. Staff, NBC 7. "You Get an Emmy, and You Get an Emmy …". NBC 7 San Diego. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
  11. "Board of Directors – AAJA San Diego". www.aaja-sandiego.org. Retrieved 2021-11-21.
  12. "Judge Ejects MSNBC from Kyle Rittenhouse Courthouse After 'Extremely Serious' Incident of Freelancer Allegedly Following Jury Bus". Law & Crime. 2021-11-18. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  13. Associated Press, Michael Tarm, Scott Bauer, and Amy Forliti. "Rittenhouse jury deliberates for third day without a verdict". The Eagle. Retrieved 2021-11-25.
  14. Lee Newspapers, Adam Rogan. "Watch now: MSNBC producer suspected of trying to follow Rittenhouse jurors, judge says". Kenosha News. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  15. "Judge in Kyle Rittenhouse trial bars MSNBC from courtroom after man working for the network follows jury bus". www.msn.com. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  16. "Body cam footage from police stop when producer followed jury vehicle". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  17. "Did an MSNBC Producer 'Follow' a Bus Containing Rittenhouse Jurors?". Snopes.com. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
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