By Gabrielle Sanders
Another day rolls by at the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High-School Journalist and it pushes students more into the world of journalism through behind the scenes work of what is done in the news world and stations. On top of this, we got to experience the News 12 building and learn about what they do, how they got into their positions and more.
Along with learning about news station broadcasting, we were also able to record our own news episodes through the help of the Stony Brook News, getting us used to teleprompters and the importance of still reading through a script. The fact that you have a teleprompter doesn’t mean that you should take that privilege for granted. Reading through a script gives not only you but also the viewers a more lively and real execution of the information that you are trying to deliver. On top of that, we got to operate the behind the scenes of the recording of the news, showing us the different controls and edits of live television, how to operate the teleprompter and microphone audio.
After our first-ever time recording in an example of what news broadcasting really is, we traveled down to the News 12 studio with a tour of the different departments including where they film the news that we view on television. It was a pretty big experience for all of us to be seeing the amount of work put in that everyday daily viewers cannot see.
