Melanie Gulbas is a highly motivated writer with a passion for all aspects of the media and entertainment industry, including news, television, publicity and marketing. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Binghamton University with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.A. in English Literature and Rhetoric in May 2020. She is currently a Post Production Assistant on the show, Blue Bloods, as well as a Writer and Editor for Newsday's Faces of Long Island. She is excited to explore the media industry and her own creativity even further– and to learn from talented and creative individuals.
Melanie is also an avid reader and writer– always eager to learn. She has taken extra courses at her University by overloading on credits. She took these extra classes aside from her major to learn more about other topics she is passionate in. These included creative writing, British and Victorian literature and social psychology.
In 2019, Melanie worked as a Media Relations Publicity Coordinator Intern at CBS Television Network, Entertainment Communications in New York City. She wrote and edited press materials and episode loglines, as well as reviewed through pilot episodes and scripts. She also created content to enhance engagement on social media properties for television shows and the CBS magazine, Watch! She worked closely with the Entertainment department and visited television sets.
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Melanie held two internships in one summer– with Long Island Pulse Magazine and Newsday. She wrote articles and took her own photographs for Long Island Pulse Magazine. For Newsday, she covered local feature stories across Long Island, including interviewing community members, as well as writing and editing the stories; one article was a front page story. She became a Freelance Features Writer for Newsday up until December, 2020.
Her love for writing doesn't stop at just fiction creative writing or scripts, she is also passionate about journalism. She loves communicating with others, engaging in the community and helping research and showcase important issues and events.
She deeply cares about the stories she reports on and goes above and beyond with each article. In particular, she became so invested in a story on Naloxone training that she became Naloxone certified herself not once, but twice. This means she is able to help someone in the event of an opioid overdose and she was able to become certified as she covered a story on a Naloxone course as a writer for Pipe Dream, as well as covering a similar story a few years later, as a reporter for WBNG-TV 12 News.
In Fall 2019, Melanie interned as a news reporter for a local television station, WBNG-TV 12 News in Binghamton, New York. She set up interviews, shot footage and wrote and edited multiple packages daily for the newscasts. She reported live on the field, as well as in studio, providing coverage for both feature stories and breaking news. One of her packages digitally reached thousands of viewers across the Southern Tier and WBNG recognized this as one of the top five stories in that year. Melanie's stories and reporting show her creativity, independence and willing to learn as much and in any way that she can.
Melanie always had a passion for writing and media, which has grown even more since being a staff writer for two sections of her University's newspaper. She was a writer for the News section and Arts and Culture section. She was also a copy editor for the multicultural newspaper, PRISM. Her commitment to Pipe Dream and news writing is exemplified as she was the 2019-2020 recipient of the Anthony Kornheiser Newspaper Scholarship. When she wasn't writing or in the news room, she could be found hosting her radio show, The Twilight Zone, with her brother, at her University's radio station, WHRW. She played alternative rock and classic rock on vinyl for her listeners.
