Friday, October 12, 2007

Centro's Hybrids- getting the story

Alexander-Hybrid B...

It was another good week as a reporter. As it turns out, and other reporters should pay attention to this, Centro likes talking to students. Steve Koegel is a former radio broadcaster and knows what we sometimes go through to find someone who will talk to students, so he will talk to future broadcasters.

I found the story the night before (first try!), and first thing the next morning, the gentleman with whom I spoke had sent me back an e-mail giving me the information I needed to get ahold of him.

Centro's central office is only a few minutes from campus, so that was easy to get to. Also, getting the NAT sound of a bus is easy enough because I have to take a bus from South to North campus.

The biggest problem I faced is that I take what people say at face value, which leads me down a road of writing a PR piece often. I really need to work on that, but Professor Nicholson came through in the clutch and helped me out.

As a team, we worked well together again, and I am very proud of our newscast. I messed up a little when I carted my story so there's a very obvious pause between when Mura stops and where my story begins. Also, my story was two seconds longer than it should have been. In this particular newscast that wasn't a big deal, but I want to work on that because I am a perfectionist.

Other than that, it was awesome to be done on time and have time to time the newscast and fix my story. Well done Team C! I'll miss working with you guys!

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