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'''The overall career of [[Ava Zinn]]''' consists of her tenure as a broadcast journalist since 1989, principal webmaster from 1999 to 2020, film/television producer and director since 2000, animator since 2004, and muscian/singer since 2011.
 
'''The overall career of [[Ava Zinn]]''' consists of her tenure as a broadcast journalist since 1989, principal webmaster from 1999 to 2020, film/television producer and director since 2000, animator since 2004, and muscian/singer since 2011.
 
In the early 1990's, she worked in a series of media giants until being inspired to work for the temperamental [[Patrice Rafferty]] at ATE Media.<ref name="AZBio"/>
 
 
After working at ATE Media for nine years, Zinn, tired of "the rages and the bullying and violence", decided that the way to further advance her career was to study webmastering. (While at ATE Media, she met [[Holly Everman]], later her [[Vote for the Girls (U.S.)|''Vote for the Girls'']] co-host and long-time closest friend from 1990 until Everman's death in May 2017.) From there, Zinn moved from ATE Media to NoSirGifts, which was founded by her mother in 1987, to work with Jackson Steele and Bob Imperial, both news anchormen. At one time, Ava Zinn states that Jackson Steele was her mentor. She continued her training at NoSirGifts for tweleve years, before giving in to the physical and mental stress of the television news industry and taking five years to work as a retail production associate.<ref name="AZBio">{{fact}}</ref>
 
  
 
==Broadcast journalism (1989-present)==
 
==Broadcast journalism (1989-present)==
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On February 5, 2007, Zinn revived her news anchoring career anchoring ''INNCD News at 10'' (now ''INNCD 47 Action News at 10:00'' and produced with WTOR). Zinn, as a transgender woman, did what other transgender women almost never did at that time. Fellow transgender anchorwomen [[Julia Passalt]] from Minneapolis and Denver, [[Fiona Johnson]] from San Fransisco, [[Kendra Ray]] from Des Moines would all do the same in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
 
On February 5, 2007, Zinn revived her news anchoring career anchoring ''INNCD News at 10'' (now ''INNCD 47 Action News at 10:00'' and produced with WTOR). Zinn, as a transgender woman, did what other transgender women almost never did at that time. Fellow transgender anchorwomen [[Julia Passalt]] from Minneapolis and Denver, [[Fiona Johnson]] from San Fransisco, [[Kendra Ray]] from Des Moines would all do the same in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
  
In 2008, NoSirGifts acquired stations owned by Imperial Broadcasting (longtime owner of WTOR, Lafayette Fox affiliate WLIN-FTV, now-CBS affiliate WIFX-FTV Indianapolis, and NBC affiliate WVTH Vincennes), NT Communications (owner of now-ABC affiliate WXWI Milwaukee), and DakMedia (owner of Fox affiliate KDNC Denver). Like WXXC, WLIN, WIFX, WVTH, WXWI, and KDNC had long been in third place in the local news ratings. Zinn implemented changes with the hope of turning the stations around. By this time, Zinn's reputation in television news was such that many of the station's veteran reporters in Inddianapolis and Milwaukee resigned. Zinn relaunched stations with a considerably watered-down version of the WXXC format, which was still shocking by Indianapolis and Milwaukee standards.  Nonetheless, it led to a ratings boost, especially after WIFX and WXWI respectively switched affiliations from Fox to CBS in 2009 and Fox to ABC in 2012. WXWI soon rose to second place in the Milwaukee ratings while WIFX soon rose to first in Indianapolis and in Fort Wayne, WTOR overtook long-dominant WMRI in key time slots in the 2010's.
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In 2008, NoSirGifts acquired stations owned by Imperial Broadcasting (longtime owner of WTOR, Lafayette Fox affiliate WLIN-FTV, now-CBS affiliate WIFX-FTV Indianapolis, and NBC affiliate WVTH Vincennes), NT Communications (owner of now-ABC affiliate WXWI Milwaukee), and DakMedia (owner of Fox affiliate KDNC Denver). Like WXXC, WLIN, WIFX, WVTH, WXWI, and KDNC had long been in third place in the local news ratings. Zinn implemented changes with the hope of turning the stations around. By this time, Zinn's reputation in television news was such that many of the station's veteran reporters in Inddianapolis and Milwaukee resigned. Zinn relaunched stations with a considerably watered-down version of the WXXC format, which was still shocking by Indianapolis and Milwaukee standards.  Nonetheless, it led to a ratings boost, especially after WIFX and WXWI respectively switched affiliations from Fox to CBS in 2009 and Fox to ABC in 2012. WXWI soon rose to second place in the Milwaukee ratings while WIFX soon rose to first in Indianapolis and in Fort Wayne, WTOR overtook long-dominant WMRI in key time slots in the last decade.
  
 
==Principal webmaster (1999-2020)==
 
==Principal webmaster (1999-2020)==

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