
Foshay is an award winning journalist, content creator, photographer and executive based in Los Angeles. She makes what’s important interesting through cinematic documentary storytelling.
Foshay has won dozens of awards for her video and documentary work during her two decades of work as both a radio and television journalist. She has worked for NBC , Al Jazeera America, PBS, KCRW and CBS and ran her own production company. She’s currently a senior producer with the Los Angeles Times Studios, focused on creating and developing digital content. Previously, Foshay was the senior news director at KCET, the PBS affiliate in Los Angeles and the executive producer of Socal Connected, a nationally honored long form news documentary series.
When producing and reporting, Foshay is mindful of journalistic ethics and with an eye on impactful reporting. She is the author of KCET’s journalism standards and practices. Her reporting has led to changes to laws, policy and in the lives of those whose stories she tells.
She has experience managing a team of producers, editors, photographers and coordinating complicated shoots, managing budgets and producing a weekly doc series. As an executive producer, Foshay also assisted with creating marketing strategies, branding campaigns and collaborating with social media teams to create specialized content for digital platforms.
Under Foshay’s direction, Socal Connected’s viewership and digital engagement experienced double digit increases year over year. The show leads nearly all original content in video views on multiple social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook.
Foshay has earned the highest awards in broadcast journalism: a George Foster Peabody and two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University silver batons. In 2019 the Los Angeles Press Club named her Journalist of the Year.
Foshay is a frequent guest lecturer at USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism and a mentor at Daniel Pearl Journalism Magnet School in Los Angeles. She is a member of the International Documentary Association , Television Academy and the Los Angeles Press Club.