Week of February 2, 2014

Tuesday: February 4, 2014

It's a huge honor to be one of the Assignment Editors for South Florida Journal. On February 3, I assigned my first round of stories to the Tuesday Group 2 students for their two-ways. Then today, I sent the assignments to Group 2 students doing two-ways in the Wednesday class. Picking stories was a bit harder than I thought. Picking two-ways meant that I had to find stories that had a bit more tension that say a possible spot story article. I was looking for familiar heated debates, and ones where there was obvious tension too. I didn't want to spring hard article and issues at the students right away. Those are for the end of the semester when they become more confident!

The in-class practice session for Germaine's two-way with Briana went really well. I was blown away with how much Germaine knew, and how much thought/work she put into this practice session. I knew from the first day of class that she had a lot of potential. It made me wonder if I sounded that good when I had a two-way last semester! 

I then was the engineer and ears with Markella in the studio as we recorded their two-way. 

After that, I sat in with Stephanie and Shanea in that two-way. It was a little rough to get through, but I aided in trying to organize her wording and questions a bit. I figure that with time, both of them could soak in a bit more of what it's like to be Broadcast-like, stylistically speaking. 

I then updated the Facebook page with a promo for the first week's show, and took 2 videos of Germaine's two-way: one of the practice session and one while in the studio as teasers.