Broadcast Journalism
Although I always felt more comfortable with a laptop or a pen in my hand, I found ways to engage with broadcast journalism through my role as editor-in-chief.
Social Media Broadcasting
Most of my years on the journalism staff were in some way affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the main ways that we, as a staff, knew we could continue to engage our community was by broadcasting events in real time on social media.
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​I made it a goal to make sure we used our voice on social media to let people know what was happening at LHS in real time. Here are some examples:
Video Announcements
This is a video of me hosting the video announcements at my school, run by Room 308 productions who work closely with our journalism staff.
Sit-in Summary Voice-Over
After reporting on a student sit-in for the gymnastics program, we decided to create a video showing photos from the event, and I added the voiceover describing the events and what had taken place.
​The video ran in the LHS morning video announcements.
It can be found at the 2:43 mark.
Future Video Projects
In the second semester I am helping lead the charge on a couple new video ideas to run alongside our constant flow of feature videos.
60 Seconds
As a spoof of the famous 60 Minutes show, we are planning to run short, 60-second video interviews with important members of our school and district.
LHS Budget Recap
Similar to something done by the University Daily Kansan, we are planning to start doing videos recapping what content we've put out on our website and in our newspaper via social media videos describing the events and linking to deeper coverage.
Implementing Video Into Print
As print editor, my ability to incorporate video into my main work is complicated by one fact: it's printed paper. But that didn't stop me from highlighting the videos done by my staff. We incorporated plus columns into our paper to give tons of design room for video links and QR codes to draw all aspects of our journalism together.
