About:
Natalia Ryzak is a Digital Video Producer for Access Hollywood at NBCUniversal in New York City.
Prior to joining, Natalia was a TikTok producer for MailOnline (8+ million followers). During her time there, Natalia helped increase Daily Mail's TikTok following by over 3.2 million and was part of a smaller team who created and ran a secondary 'showbiz' account, which gained over 80K followers in just a few months. Natalia has also worked at Cheddar News where she created both long and short-form digital content for their YouTube channel.
Natalia began her career as a multimedia journalist, host, and producer at WBNG 12 News, a CBS/CW affiliate in Binghamton, NY. She covered stories ranging from a profile of a high-risk COVID vaccine trial participant to a look at TikTok’s impact on college campuses. Natalia also produced several special reports, including one that examined the impact of the pandemic on school extracurriculars and what that might mean for students that year and later in their adult lives.
Natalia earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, where she covered stories from the five boroughs to national press boxes during the 2020 Presidential primaries. Prior to Columbia, she received a B.S. in broadcast journalism from the University of Miami.