-: You know, (laughs)
if it was ten years ago,
I would say broadcast journalism.
Now I would say,
anything.
Because journalism is so general.
And I feel like today it's more specified.
Like, I am the law reporter,
I am the doctor specialist,
medical specialist.
So you can kinda get away with any major for journalism.
Ideally broadcast journalism, that's always accepted.
But if you find another route,
I don't think anyone's gonna
turn their nose up at you.
Internships.
Temple Update.
I feel like that's something
I wish I would've taken more advantage of
in hindsight,
because I feel like the kids that were there
day in and day out
had way more experience than I did
with the day-to-day news
system.
I met Allen Barber and I learned about
the Los Angeles Internship program,
and that's for film majors.
So I had to get creative.
I asked a professor if I could go
and find a news internship.
That is how I got into my first newsroom
specifically internship.
So my advice to them would be to get creative.
Cause it's more and more competitive,
so you gotta think outside the box.
You wanna reel.
And that's why you want Temple Update
because that's how I got my reel.
And
internships too.
Go out and shadow the reporters
and then when they shoot their stand-ups,
you shoot your stand-ups
and just re-track what they did
or you can write it yourself
but you just need to show news directors
like, "Hey, this is what I'm capable of."
Especially when you're looking for that first job.
What should be on a reel?
What you want is a montage,
so like,
five to seven stand-ups
and then you want three packages.
You want a hard story,
like some type of crime story.
You want a lighter feature story
and then the third story could go either way,
but you want the lighter story at the very end.
I would challenge them to pick
one to three of their favorite reporters
here in Philadelphia
and mimic them.
It may feel like you're copying them
and that's okay.
But you have to do that until
you find your own voice.
That's probably the most strategic way to do it.
To get your writing together,
to study who you enjoy watching.