User:Malikbasurto

Malik Basurto has been a freelance journalist most of his life, being born in Northern California growing up and now residing in Southern California. He has worked as a journalist and a newscaster on radio, having won an Edward R. Murrow award for small market newscast. He was a reporter/writer on the team that won a Golden Microphone for the best newscast over 15 minutes of the Evening Updates.

Basurto earned a degree in journalism from California State University Northridge, writing for the campus paper covering all sports using the byline Malik Lee. Under the same byline he covered the city of Compton and did movie reviews for the Los Angeles Wave Newspaper.

While working on his degree, Basurto covered High School football for the Los Angeles Daily News and wrote biographies for the San Fernando Business Journal. Basurto began his journalism career writing for the Cleveland High School paper in Reseda, California.