Show tJ i rf C Channel h anne 1 2 Vi Visits s its S a 41 SJ J V r W Lv c S Y i I 0 i r a t na nai u e rk JY r rF A F g Ma c Hr n J J 1 Y A GS EF v P e I p A tae a ao r Sar o khY F Ff Fr Qt f t a gorys r ay u t u n err y y o x m t 4 Channel 2 News Photo by Carrie Crawford Channel 2 provides assistance to broadcast journalism hopefuls BY JILL HOLLAND Editor On October the Richard Day a student brought his co workers Channel 2 anchors Shauna Lake and Mark Koebel to speak to about forty students in the Communications department The Communications 1500 instructor Ben Spencer explained This is a unique experience because both of these anchors bring backgrounds backgrounds backgrounds back back- grounds of diverse education Many of the students want to togo togo togo go into television broadcasting broadcast broadcast- ing and now we have a studio and a news cast that is hands handson on and really broadcasting The challenges are real starting starting starting start start- ing next week we are doing two newscasts a week starting Saturday morning on Channel 9 This is not a mock situa situa- tion The students actually go out and take video do interviews interviews interviews inter inter- views and write their stories This is unique for a community ty college since in the past they have been skewed towards basic print journal journal- t ism We interrelate with the Globe Newspaper and we ar are looking towards radio also j. j Shauna Lake and Mark Koebel are not like Barbie and Ken dolls anchored to chairs to parrot the news They work twelve w to o fourteen hour days and are on call twenty-four twenty hours a day They are college graduates graduates graduates ates who sit in on editorial r meetings daily and make critical critical critical cal decisions concerning what we see on their news broad broad- casts Their personalities and nd emotions do and should come through to their audi audi- ence Shauna explained When you are telling a story of a parent killing their child your emotions show through If we are emotionless it is like telling the viewer that their Page 5 L 1 i I from page 4 r emotions are not valid like what they are feeling is not real Lake continued On September the 11 th I think for all of us we went in emotional emotional emotional emo emo- cycles as a news person person person per per- son you just wanted to do your job We were going through gh the experience at the same time our audience was I needed to focus on doing my job We were learning things as we were telling it The producers were updating us constantly as it was happening happening happening hap hap- pening so the reaction you were getting from your newscasters newscasters newscasters news news- casters was very real We were fed every piece of video that existed andas and andas as Gatekeepers for this community community community com com- we had to decide what we were going to show What were Utahans ready for Some of the images obviously none of us can forget I I felt the same way September the 11 th was the biggest single event professionally professionally professionally that will happen in my lifetime hopefully You cant can't afford down time so o you just do your job but then when I would come home reality would hit said Koebel R t t J 4 i c Of r it I was honestly 3 i. i proud to be a journalist a j reporter slash entertainer or what ever we were during the thed j jt J t tragedy d y sal said d K Koebel I was i especially impressed with the s professionalism of the reporters in New York They knew people in the buildings 1 and they had the buildings right behind them It was hard not to show bias towards the terrorists Shauna's background includes a double major including journalism from BYU She advised It is important to take opportunities ties you are given I never wanted to live in Maine but I just took a risk and it turned out for the best and Im I'm really glad I did it It taught me that r rit it was definitely what I wanted wanted wanted want want- ed to o do Im I'm very happy in my job Mark graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a major in Rhetoric and Communication and a n minor nor norin in Political Science This game has become very competitive If I Ilose Ilose Ilose lose enough viewers I lose my job Statistics tell the tru truth h he said A e 0 |