Nicknamed the "Queen of Convergence," Victoria Lim's award winning consumer reports have appeared on television, in newspaper, and online. During her 10+ years at the Tampa Florida NewsCenter, which encompasses WFLA-TV, the Tampa Tribune and tbo.com, her work earned Lim an Emmy and Associated Press Individual Achievement award. The Florida Society of Professional Journalists named her the 2006 "Journalist of the Year."
She continues her multimedia work as a fulltime freelancer, filing video and text reports for websites, writing magazine articles, and is a national trainer for the Society of Professional Journalists on skills including multimedia news gathering, broadcast news writing, multiplatform reporting, ethics, and diversity reporting.
Lim joined Tampa's NBC affiliate from WWMT-TV in Grand Rapids, MI. Before that, she was a reporter and anchor at WNS-TV in New Castle, Delaware, and has worked at several other television and radio stations since beginning her career in broadcasting. She started her journalism career as a sports stringer for the Burlington County Times covering high school sports.
Lim has served as chapter president and vice-president for broadcast for Asian American Journalists Association Florida Chapter, and is a 2002 ELP graduate. She was chosen as one of the mentors for the national UNITY mentor program, which helps young journalist of color. She also teaches multimedia as an adjunct instructor at the University of Tampa and the University of South Florida, and is an occasional instructor at the Poynter Institute.
A graduate of Temple University, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Radio-TV and Film. In 2006, Temple inducted Lim into its "Journalism Hall of Fame" Lew Klein Alumni in the Media award. She's the recipient of more than a dozen other state, regional and national journalism awards. In her spare time, you can find Victoria on the soccer field, volleyball court or playing the piano.