 From Strader Payton
あけましておめでとうございます！今年も宜しくお願いします！
Sorry for the delay! We have been pretty busy recently and, to be
honest, I just plain forgot to send along my contact information for
your alumni site. Here's some info on my post-GW life...
After I graduated from GW, I moved to Isesaki, Gunma, Japan to teach
English as an Assistant Language Teacher through my hometown's
(Springfield, MO) Sister City Association. I was there from January
2002 to August 2003. It might be a small town, but owing to the large
number of South American laborers in the city, it has the best
Peruvian food on that side of the Andes. I performed the same job as
the JETs in my city.
I graduated last year from Missouri State University with a MIAA
(Master of International Affairs and Administration) degree. Although
some might see this as a step down from GW, I had lots of great
opportunities there, including teaching one semester of Political
Science 101 (a required course for all Mo State undergrads) - American
Politics and Government. I worked as a graduate assistant for two
years; spent three months in the summer of 2005 interning at Yokosuka
City Hall, where I studied Japanese emergency management (internship
arranged by CLAIR's New York office:
http://www.jlgc.org/en/index.html); and spent the fall semester of '05
at National Sun Yat-sen University
(http://www.oia.nsysu.edu.tw/english/ ), studying political science
and Mandarin, where I helped Dr. Dennis Hickey research a book he was
writing on Taiwan's foreign policy In June, I started work as a producer at TV Tokyo's Washington, DC
Bureau. We cover American politics and international issues for TV
Tokyo's news programming. We have a small office (me and 3 others),
so my responsibilities run the gamut from basic office work, to
reporting (I have not been on air yet, but I should be able to tick
that box soon), covering developments on Capitol Hill, at the White
House, at the Pentagon, at the State Department, etc, research,
translation and interpretation, and developing and planning feature
stories. I have only been here six months, but feature stories are by
far and away the best part of my job. Being the only native English
speaker in the office, I have substantial responsibilities for these
stories, including: research, initializing and managing relationships
with interviewees and other sources on location, conducting
interviews, logistics, assisting with post-production, and developing
story ideas.
We also travel annually to both the G8 and APEC summits. Since I was
still too "green", I didn't go on these trips this year, but I have
been told I will be going to Germany this June for the G8 and
Australia in September. We also go to the annual UN start of the
General Assembly in New York in the fall. I did make it to this in
September.
Feel free to use all or part or none of this message in your site.
Please send me a link when you have it finished. As far as contact
information goes, this is my permanent e-mail address. My work e-mail
is strader@tv-tokyo-america.com but gmail is probably the best way to
contact me. I have a blog that I haven't updated much recently at
http://straderpayton.blogspot.com/ and an online photo gallery with
over 2,000 pictures from over the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, and Italy at
http://flickr.com/photos/straderpayton/ that you can share to your
heart's content.
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