Email: Nisha.Gutierrez@Patch.com
Phone: 949- 201-0615
Hometown: Baldwin Park, CA
Birthday: Jan. 18, 1980
Nisha Gutierrez-Jaime is the local editor of the Newport Beach Patch and the Corona del Mar Patch. She is a Southern California native and has worked as a print, wire and television reporter for the past eight years.
Nisha discovered her passion for journalism at a young age while watching TV news and listening to radio news reports with her father.
Nisha first began reporting stories for her school newspaper during her junior year at Bishop Amat High School in La Puente. She continued her education at California State University Fullertion where she received a bachelor's degree in print and broadcast journalism and started her professional career while reporting for a weekly newspaper.
After graduating from college, Nisha became the crime reporter at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune in West Covina, and was the producer and host of the newspaper's first daily morning webcast.
Nisha has also worked as a television reporter, producer and videographer at a cable station in Torrance, CA and then at an NBC affiliate in Idaho.
Nisha most recently worked as a staff reporter for City News Service in Los Angeles and has had feature stories published in Inland Empire Magazine and other online news sites.
In May 2012 Nisha received her master's degree in Communications from California State University Fullerton. When she is not digging for news stories or interviewing people, Nisha enjoys traveling with her husband and watching crime documentaries.
Your Beliefs
At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. So in the spirit of simple honesty, our policy is to encourage our editors to reveal their beliefs to the extent they feel comfortable. This disclosure is not a license for you to inject your beliefs into stories or to dictate coverage according to them. In fact, the intent is the opposite: we hope that the knowledge that your beliefs are on the record will cause you to be ever mindful to write, report and edit in a fair, balanced way. And if you ever see evidence that we failed in this mission, please let us know.
Politics: How would you describe your political beliefs? I am a member of the Democratic Party.
Religion: How religious would you consider yourself? I am and have always been a practicing Catholic. I attended Catholic schools throughout my elementary and high school years and I believe Catholicism has played a huge part in my life. One of my favorite things to do is go to Sunday mass with my family.
Local Hot-Button Issues
What do you think are the most important issues facing the community? Education and community development are of high importance to the people of Corona del Mar.
Where do you stand on each of these issues? I am a huge supporter of education and am looking forward to reporting education news. By the same token, I believe community development is important to helping a community thrive.
Police say a man passed a note demanding money to an employee at the Subway on Newport Boulevard on Friday evening, but only got away with three cookies.
An unknown suspect stole a purse and credit cards from a home on La Jolla Drive after sneaking in through an unlocked side gate.
It's a great time to ensure that smoke alarms are functioning properly.
Signs warning of unhealthy bacteria levels were posted this week at Little Corona Beach and the Newport Slough.
Homes on Shipway Lane, Santiago and Windward Lane were recently broken into, according to Newport Beach police.
Newport Beach police say Sarah Leaf lost control of her bike and fell into traffic on Bayside Drive.
Fifty sharrows are painted along East Coast Highway in Corona del Mar.
A report from U.S. Sailing says the fatal Aegean yacht crash during the annual Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race was likely due to inadequate lookout by the vessel's four sailors.
The Newport Beach Police Department offer tips to keep you and your family safe on Halloween.
Several additional women have come forward to accuse a Newport Beach man of rape. He faces 23 felony counts stemming from alleged incidents between March 2005 and November 2011.
The burglary occurred at a home on Dover Drive in Newport Beach.
Newport Beach police officers serve as celebrity waiters at the Yard House.
Homes on West Balboa Boulevard, Superior Avenue and Yorktown were recently broken into, according to Newport Beach police.
Slated to open in February, the Newport Beach Civic Center is the vision of architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.
Dale Ellis will replace Dick Greene, who recently announced his retirement, as the head of the Newport-Mesa Unified School District's nutrition department.
The burglar went into a home on East Oceanfront in Newport Beach after forcing open a window downstairs.
The body of Quee "Q.C." Chadwick was found by a passer-by in a dumpster Thursday afternoon in Lakeside off Wildcat Canyon Road.
Politics and predictions were offered at the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce's 2013 Economic Forecast seminar.
Kyle Shirakawa Handley of Fountain Valley is implicated in a violent kidnapping on 25th Street in Newport Beach. Two more suspects are being sought.
The body of Quee "Q.C." Chadwick was found by a passer-by in a dumpster Thursday afternoon in rural San Diego County.