“Producers are the heart of a television station,” said Mike Smith, Gray’s director of talent recruitment and retention, “and we recognize that some of the most crucial parts of their development start in the classroom. We’re excited to be training tomorrow’s newsroom leaders.”
Loyola University New Orleans’ is partnering with Gray Television to create a Producer Incubator Lab, where producers from Gray TV stations will help coach and educate aspiring producers, as well as give lectures on all aspects of production in the television broadcast industry.
“Producers are the heart of a television station,” said Mike Smith, Gray’s director of talent recruitment and retention, “and we recognize that some of the most crucial parts of their development start in the classroom. We’re excited to be training tomorrow’s newsroom leaders.”
For 10 consecutive weeks during the spring 2019 semester, Gray will send one visiting professional per week to spend two days in classrooms and lab settings working with Loyola’s journalism students.
The 10 professionals will be producers drawn from 10 different markets around the country.
They will address all aspects of the production of a newscast, from story generation to vetting sources and streaming news.
“At Loyola University New Orleans, we are training the newsroom leaders of tomorrow,” said Sonya Duhé, professor and director of the School of Mass Communication.
“Through this partnership, we will continue to expand journalism students’ view of what is possible and what is critical in the newsrooms of tomorrow so that they enter the workforce personally and professionally prepared to succeed.”
The production incubator program will be integrated into a mandatory semester class in which senior journalism students draw on the skills gleaned throughout their college experience to produce a professional weekly live broadcast.
In the Digital Communications Lab at Loyola, journalism students work on HD cameras to record live and taped interviews and shepherd them to post-production in a state-of-the-art television production studio and installation room.
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