SUMMER CAMPERS LEARN
ABOUT THEIR POTENTIAL FUTURES
by Jesse B.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Potential Jayhawk journalists toured the
University of Kansas’s School of Journalism in Lawrence, Kan., this Monday to
learn about the myriad media-focused opportunities offered there.
KU school recruiter Ashley Anguiano and 2013
Barstow alumnus Michael O’Brien led a group of four campers, teacher assistant
Allison Lopez, and teacher Mr. Guldin from a media-centered summer camp at the Barstow School around the Stauffer-Flint building
and Dole Building. The two taught the group what makes up journalism and mass
communications at KU and about the newspaper The Kansan, the radio station
KJHK, and the station that airs “Good Morning KU” at the Media Crossroads.
Anguiano and O’Brien first led the group
into the Dole Building, where students led by Brett Agaki retrieved news to
transfer to “Good Morning KU.” Agaki showed the tour the four monitors up on
the wall, displaying local news, weather, analytics, and online news, all used
by students to get the latest updates and view the competition.
Afterward, the recruiters led the group
down to the news station, where they observed the technology used to make the
show possible, including panels enabling the crew to stream from other
stations, Skype, and a preview screen that lets everyone know what the show
looks like to the public. Intrigued, the campers saw the set where the
reporters share the news on television, and they witnessed the green screen where
the meteorologists report the weather.
The tour continued into the KJHK radio
station, which allows students to share music, news, and talk all over the
university.
The next stop was at the Media
Crossroads in the Kansas Union building, a studio that was divided into two
rooms, one with a neatly-organized collection of Mac computers and the set where
the cameramen would broadcast “Good Morning KU.”
“Why do you use Macs?” a camper, David,
asked. “I’m more of a Microsoft kind of guy.”
“The programs that we use to make the
shows work best on Mac,” Anguiano explained, “such as Adobe’s Photoshop,
InDesign, and Premiere as well as Final Cut Pro.”
The group then went to see the set,
which at that moment was a wall smothered with green paint.
Up the steps they went to lunch. The
trip concluded once the last crumb was savored, and the group had obtained the
knowledge they would need to complete articles over journalism back at camp.
