Ben Opala
Journalist

Ben is an Independent Journalist who graduated of Illinois Media School class of 2020 in Chicago Illinois.

He is the host of Cuppa with Ben Podcast where he covers Local News also current events in Southeast Wisconsin and Northeast Illinois. He hosts a Traffic Report Podcast where you can hear current traffic updates courtesy on National Highways UK for the traffic information. You can listen to all of Ben podcasts and watch all of Ben’s videos on you tube.

When he is not producing podcasts on you tube, he is hard at work on the Wisconsin weather pictures Instagram account or on the train spotting by Ben you tube channel where not only he shoots and edits train videos of Metra and Amtrak he edits travel videos also intros and behind camera demos where he edits audio using the adobe platform.

Ben is experienced with using adobe Premiere pro and some experience with adobe audition and working with canon camera for photography also videography. he is also experienced with a canon XA60 Camera as well. Ben mostly uses a mobile phone camera for photography and uses a 420.0 Mega Pixels still image recording or mobile phone camera for his videography for his you tube platforms.  Not only you can see Ben’s work on you tube and Instagram you can also see it on this website bensmedianews.com

In May 2025 Ben took a volunteer opportunity to be a radio traffic reporter for a internet radio station called chingstow radio that is based in London England UK.