Blog 2025

Another day, another lesson. Today, at the Robert W. Greene Summer Institute for High School Journalists, the Greene Team took on news anchoring, and the control room! The first job I took on was graphics, and making sure the right animations came on at the right time. Since this was very new to me, I…

Today is the 2026 Greene Team’ last full day. It was bittersweet, but still there was plenty of work that had to be done. We quickly settled into the newsroom and got to it. My group worked on the Long Island Ducks game news package, Tiny Vinyls profile, and the Greene Team Instagram post. Throughout…

Today was a really busy day on campus.The first half of the day was spent doing a live broadcast activity. I got to go up on camera for the reporting and weather section and control the teleprompter with the scroll wheel, which was pretty nice! After lunch, we got a few lectures. From there, my…

I can’t believe I only have today and tomorrow left. Today is mostly just gonna be a work day, so I’m not too excited but it should still be fun. I got up around 7:30 am and met everybody downstairs at about eight. We then headed to get a quick breakfast before Rick Ricioppo gave…

On day 3, I woke up in a hurry with only 40 minutes to get ready. I quickly gathered my stuff and headed to breakfast. After breakfest we headed to the news room to work with our group. My group and I visited the Zuccaire Gallery. They are featuring the Noel W Anderson: Black Excellence…

It’s the last full day at the Greene Institute already! Dang, it’s gone so fast! Today was really crunch time for our projects. For almost the entire day, the whole Greene Team were working on the two assigned projects. Angie and I were both working on writing the article on Becoming rentABLE while Yasmin and…

It’s day four and I feel like the unhealthy food is getting to me. I think I’m a bit homesick but, then again. I’m actually pretty happy. Today, we ate then got right to work. I interviewed Tim McArthur, the founder of Beautiful LI. I spoke to him and genuinely realized that people are trying…

The Greene Team spent the majority of Thursday, July 30 writing and editing their two articles and creating their video piece.  In the morning, we learned how to use iMovie, the program for putting together the video pieces. Additionally, the Greene Team engaged in a presentation on how to write for video and the differences…

Today I woke up at 8:03 am. We had a late start, but it was only 15 minutes later. I’m not complaining, because if it wasn’t 15 minutes I’d be cooked fish. The breakfast was honestly decent — you can’t go wrong with tater tots and eggs. Yum. After eating, we did the news reporter…

Taking pictures of the Long Island Ducks was one of the moments where I truly felt like a real sports photographer. Standing in the stands with my camera, I wasn’t just taking pictures. I was trying to capture the moments that people in the stands would remember. One of my favorite moments was capturing the…

By Yasmin Bardales Today the Greene team tackled broadcasting and all the roles that go into making a successful news broadcast. We were each given the opportunity to try our hand at anchoring, directing, filming, and learning how to use the control room equipment. It was an amazing experience because we learned about what tasks…