Brigid Bergin went from working in a bank, to being part of the political beat at WNYC.
She confessed to Baruch College Now students at a spacious conference room in the offices of NYC Public Radio yesterday with the goal of helping aspiring journalists. When the last question came up, everyone listened carefully to Bergin’s response about her professional career.
“I didn’t know I really wanted to be a journalist,” is something the high school students didn’t expect to hear from the WNYC City Hall and politician reporter.
Bergin worked 8 and a half years in a bank and described her work space there as “a little cubical.” She wanted to go out and explore what was happening around her neighborhood and her city. She realized that journalism would fulfill her desires of being involved in various communities.
She went to journalism school and that’s when she transitioned from her work at the bank to being a full-time journalist.
“I fell in love with radio and WNYC,” she says when talking about being an intern at the NYC Public Radio.
She began as a general assignment journalist for a year, like many others. Later on, she was assigned to specific topics.
If she wasn’t in the politics area, she would lean towards the cultural aspect of finding different communities around each borough.