Emily Hood, Executive Producer of FHNtodayTV
Emily Hood is a senior at Francis Howell North and is serving in her second year as Executive Producer of the video staff for the 2019-20 school year. She has previously served as Podcast Producer in her 4 years on staff. Hood loves to create a wide range of content for FHN Media, including broadcast packages, photos, and written stories. She anchors The Hood Report, a weekly show that comes out every Wednesday that discusses national news, sports, and pop culture. Hood was named the 2020 National High School Journalist of the Year and Missouri Student Journalist of the Year and placed 4th in the NSPA Broadcast Journalist of the Year competition in 2018 and 2019 for her work with The Hood Report, FHNtodayTV and FHNtodayLive. She also earned a 4th Place award for Social Media Promotion from NSPA and was named the Missouri Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference Representative in 2019. After high school, Hood plans to attend the University of Missouri - Columbia to major in Journalism with an emphasis in Documentary Journalism and Reporting and Writing.
![After school junior Brandon Bridgeman walks to his bus to go home. Starting in the 2020-21 school year, school will not be able to start until two weeks before the first Monday in September. “There’s so many things to consider in the calendar,” Lisa Simpkins, co-chair of the Calendar Committee, said. “There’s so many different perspectives and different ways to manipulate the calendar [that] affect different people in different ways.” (Photo by Sam Watkins)](https://FHNtoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/IMG_8959-900x600.jpg)
