Week 3

I was really excited to be a producer this week. It meant that I had control over the newscast. During the newscast we had some problems with timing. We ended up being very top heavy. When we came back after the break we had to quickly wrap up our newscast with less than a minute to go. We had to cut one of our stories in the second block and shorten the kicker and weather. The story we had to removed was about the new smoking ban at the Carousel Center. Starting January 1st, the mall will not permit smoking anywhere on the mall's property, even the outside. I thought this was a pretty good story but we had to cut it. If we would have cut one of the stories in the first block, we may have had better timing. Overall, I thought my team did a good job this week.