NEW ORLEANS, July 24, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Loyola University New
Orleans' award-winning School of Mass Communication is
embarking on a new partnership with Gray Television to create a
"Producer Incubator Lab." The new student laboratory on campus will
bring producers from Gray Television stations around the nation to
Loyola to help coach and educate
aspiring producers, as well as give lectures on all aspects of
production in the television broadcast industry.
"We're living in a fast-moving digital age where the newsroom is
changing rapidly and where journalists are facing increased demands
to juggle responsibilities and produce important stories that serve
their communities," said Mike Smith,
director of talent recruitment and retention for Gray Television.
"Producers are the heart of a television station, 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
Television will send one visiting professional per week to spend
two days in classrooms and lab settings working with SMC 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.
The production incubator program will be integrated into the
Senior Capstone experience, 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.
In the Digital Communications Lab, Loyola now has added capability of multi-channels
of Skype-enabled live shots with a professional, broadcast quality.
Students will use the new equipment to train for broadcasting live
shots and interviews.
"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."
"Content managers and producers in newsrooms around the country
are recognizing a need for new tools and modes of storytelling, and
the Loyola University New Orleans
School of Mass Communication is well-equipped with talented faculty
and state-of-the-art technology to ensure that journalism students
stay ahead of the curve," said Kern Maass, dean of the College of
Music and Fine Arts at Loyola. "This
exciting new partnership with Gray Television opens doors for
Loyola students and faculty and we hope
that our partners will learn as well as they work with us here on
campus."
"Our employees are very excited to introduce the latest tools
and technologies in broadcasting and provide hands-on learning to
the future leaders of the newsroom" said Mike Smith. "We at Gray believe this will also
be a rewarding experience for our employees as they get to interact
on a very organic level with students studying new media and have a
meaningful impact on the careers of aspiring producers. Gray TV is
committed to developing the next generation of journalists."
Based in Atlanta, Gray
Television is a publicly traded television broadcast company with
television stations and digital assets in 57 markets in
the United States as far west as
Alaska and as far east as the tip
of Maine.
About Loyola University New
Orleans:
Loyola University New
Orleans is a Catholic, Jesuit university, located in the
heart of the picturesque Uptown neighborhood in New Orleans. For more than 100 years,
Loyola has helped shape the lives of
our students, as well as the history of our city and the world,
through educating men and women in the Jesuit traditions of
academic excellence and service to others. Our more than 40,000
graduates serve as catalysts for change in their communities around
the world as they exemplify the comprehensive, values-laden
education they received at Loyola.
About Gray TV:
Gray Television, Inc. (NYSE: GTN and
GTN.A) owns and/or operates over 100 television stations across 57
television markets that collectively broadcast over 200 program
streams including over 100 channels affiliated with the CBS
Network, the NBC Network, the ABC Network and the FOX Network. Our
portfolio includes the number-one and/or number-two ranked
television station operations in essentially all of our markets,
which collectively cover approximately 10.4 percent of total
United States television
households. For further information, please visit www.gray.tv
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