
Garin Flowers
Garin Flowers, an Emmy-nominated and AP Award-winning journalist, is a broadcast writing coach for students across different platforms at USC Annenberg. He helps specifically with Annenberg TV News and the See It Live! weekly broadcast. He joined USC in January 2020 and works with students on all aspects of the reporting process.
Garin is also an on-camera host, writer, and content creator working in the entertainment industry. Part of his work includes screening films and chatting with cast members at movie junkets or world premieres. He’s interviewed some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Dwayne Johnson, Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Will Smith, Chris Evans and Kevin Hart.
Previously, he worked for almost eight years as a general assignment reporter for CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates throughout Florida. At his last station, WTSP 10News in Tampa, he won an Associated Press Award and earned a nomination for a Suncoast News Emmy. He also taught journalism students at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in Tallahassee.
The Fort Lauderdale native holds a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s in mass communications from the University of South Florida.
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- What relationship experts really think about 'Love Is Blind': 'Attraction matters'23 Oct 2023—Yahoo! NewsCan people fall in love before ever having seen each other? The hit Netflix show Love Is Blind has been setting out to answer that question since its premiere in February 2020. But the show's most recent season looked different from past iterations. In Season 5, which wrapped on Oct. 13, only two couples made it to the altar surrounded by family and friends — and of the two, only one couple tied the knot. It seemed as if the premise was on shaky ground. While the show can prove it has had...
- Tupac Shakur murder trial: The key players inside the explosive East Coast-West Coast rap beef18 Oct 2023—Yahoo! NewsOn Nov. 30, 1994, Tupac Shakur walked into the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan. The hip-hop star was there to record a song with fellow rapper Lil Shawn. But the collab never happened. As Tupac entered, he was confronted by three armed men in the lobby. They demanded he hand over his valuables. Shakur tried to fight them off, but in the ensuing struggle he was shot five times, with one bullet grazing his head. The shooting changed everything between Shakur and Chris Wallace, also...
- From BTS to Dreamcatcher, K-pop artists are creeping their way into Halloween playlists. These 15 songs bring the spookiest vibes.11 Oct 2023—Yahoo!Halloween sounds like Michael Jackson's "Thriller, Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" and the Ghostbusters theme song. But with K-pop's rise in U.S. popularity, the songs that help ring in spooky season may sound different this year. Groups like BTS, Dreamcatcher and (G)-IDLE are tapping into the horror theme and making music that is not only sonically appealing, but also spine-chilling. Many of the genre's music videos are also inspired by the holiday, showcasing ghosts, gory scenes and...
- 'Sunday Night Football' was 'Taylor-made' for Swifties, down to Carson Daly's pregame explainer. Why some say it was 'well-intentioned,' but 'misguided.'3 Oct 2023—Yahoo! NewsTravis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s budding romance once again took center stage during an NFL game, as the singer cheered on the football star Sunday night while his Kansas City Chiefs faced off against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. NBC, home of Sunday Night Football, leaned right into the storyline. The networked hyped the game across social media with a promo titled “Taylor Made for Sunday Night” — which has since racked up 8 million views. And then producers recruited...
- R.I.P., red envelope. Netflix shuts down its DVD subscription service — and reveals the last disc ever rented.29 Sep 2023—Yahoo!The last red envelope has been sent. Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service has officially gone the way of Betamax and Blockbuster. On Friday, Netflix shut down the subscription model that launched the company in 1998. “Back in those days, that’s all it was,” says Austin Kokel, an avid TV and film watcher who works at the CBS affiliate station in Myrtle Beach, S.C. — and part of the small but passionate cinephiles who preferred physical media to streaming, and would spend hours adjusting their queues...