Broadcast Journalism
Photo by Betty Jane Plitt
Through broadcast journalism, I am able to capture emotion and personality through visuals. Multimedia is something I use to make quick coverage and tell engaging stories. But there's so much more that goes into making a video package than just filming. There’s scheduling interviews, planning out shots, and editing the clips together. I typically use Capcut to edit my videos, but recently I've started to familiarize myself with Adobe Premiere Pro, and I'm hoping to be able to help my staff do the same. As Editor-in-Chief, I serve as a mentor and a storyteller for broadcast projects. When I’m not creating my own videos, I help other staffers use editing software and feel more confident behind the camera.
NSPA 2025
After attending the 2025 NSPA Fall Conference in Nashville Tennessee, I brought back information from various sessions I attended including knowledge I’ve learned throughout my years on staff. I walked the staff through a video I had made about a rising content creator at our high school. Having a planned schedule for my video was something that really helped made sure to cover how I got my shots, planning interview questions and an overall schedule of when I filmed and edited the video. This was the first video I had worked by myself on and I used the strategies I learned from sessions at NSPA, and I wanted to teach the staff the same skills so that could implement them into their videos.
NSPA Broadcast sessions that I went to:
Will Nolan
Behind the Broadcast: Live streaming with a purpose
"Football games are two, two and a half hours long, and a camera battery, especially when you're streaming, takes up a lot of charge and a lot of battery. So you want to make sure that you have extra batteries for when your battery dies next. Tripods. Two cameras requires two tripods. So for our top camera, we use this normal Amazon tripod, and that will also come with the track. And for our bottom camera, we have a mini tripod. They just screw onto the camera next to our field monitor. This allows for our camera person to be able to see what they're actually filming, just so they're not moving the camera helplessly and not knowing what they're showing."
Cheyenne LaViolette
Building strong broadcasting programs
I use Sony cameras, and if you reach out to your Sony rep, they are amazing about if you buy X number of cameras, they give you a free camera. They'll give you discounts, yeah, if you get on, if you look up Sony education, Sony cameras education, I didn't link it here, sorry. They give you the regions and I actually reached out to the wrong one, and they got me hooked up with the right person. So, yeah, if you do so much education and cameras, it should come up. A Google Drive school, and so we have everything organized in a shared drive that everybody has access to. Everybody gets their own folders here. So we have the these are our two shows, the 1000 report and studio 1332 if you go into the father report folder we've got November, and then the days of November that we have shows, and then, and then every student has their own folder, so that if, say, a day is out sick, then Patty can go in and get into a data stuff and get get it edited if they're working as a team. So it's all there for everybody to have access to. This is not super high tech. It's just a Google sheet, but it's our anchor schedule. And you can see I'm gone, so my advanced class is the only one anchoring.
Practice with Video
