Studio Standby

Emily Martin in front of a "Stay Sorta Positive"
wall mural by @LURISSU in Houston, Texas

By: Conner Yarbrough
Email: coy2@txstate.edu

Emily Martin is an electronic media student and KTSW Assistant News Director at Texas State University. The 19-year-old sophomore uses her passion for broadcasting to reach her goal of becoming a TV news anchor.

However, she hasn’t always been involved in the world of mass communications. In fact, she originally dreamed of becoming either a professional actress or a dentist .

Martin's dreams shifted during her sophomore year at Deer Park High School in Deer Park, Texas - an outer suburb of her birth-city, Houston. It was in this year that she, by chance, was introduced to the school’s broadcast teacher, Jared Creel, while working as an office assistant for the counselor’s office. After a short interview, Creel had recruited Martin to the broadcast team that would ultimately point her in her current direction. However, even with this direction, it is her personal drive that has earned her the success she now enjoys. This drive was spurred on by her personal rejection of the Catholic private school system she attended during her elementary school days. When she moved on to middle school, she asked her parents to allow her to begin public school instead.

"Choosing to go to public school, after years in private school, was the first time I really did something for myself," Martin says.

It is this step that Martin claims pushed her to become outgoing and exploratory - two traits she considers key to excelling in broadcasting.