News Story Reflection 12

Last Friday, the Convergence class took a field trip to the Fox 4 news station to see what broadcast journalism is like in the real world.  I was especially excited considering I had been trying to set up the trip for over a year and a half.  My expectations of the station were pretty high and I thought it would be completely different than what we do now in our small class.  However, the process of how a true news show is produced was along the same lines of what we do almost every day. 

I was able to learn a lot of new information such as how commercials work (national and local), the difference between real news and high school anchors, and how a true live production works.  It was really reassuring to know that most of what we do now in high school stays the same in the real world and that I won't be completely and utterly lost when I go to a true news station. 

Some of the things that I am definitely going to start implementing into my own work is the use of more stand ups, ad-libbing with my co-host when I anchor ONW Now, and to try to put more entertaining and humorous packages into the show along with not being so serious when I anchor.