Class of
2005
ATVN positions and duties: Executive producer, producer, anchor, reporter, WSE, director, technical director, and playback.
What is your advice to aspiring journalists?
Constantly strive to learn and improve. Pick out the people who can really teach you something and make you better. If you work at ATVN, look to Serena and Willa. It wasn’t until I started working that I truly realized how much I learned from them and how much I still need them.
What is the most important thing a college journalist should know when he or she is trying to negotiate his or her first job?
Be confident. If you doubt yourself, that will show through. Appearing sure in yourself and what you can do is half the battle. The last question the news director asked me as I left the station after my interview was “Do you think you can do this job?” I think it was important to him that I be confident in the skills that I have.
What prepared you most for your current job?
Just going out there and doing it. Putting myself in new uncomfortable situations. When you start your new job, every situation will be new and different, from going out with a photographer to reporting the kinds of stories you’ve never covered. But if you’ve put yourself out there enough times, you’ll know the next time you’re in a new situation, you’ll be able to respond.
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