Sports' Blog

Anchoring the fifth newscast was something heading into it I knew would be the best one yet. My story package turned out very good, and was even picked up by ESPNU the day before taping this newscast, so I already had some extra confidence going in. I have noticed a tremendous amount of improvement in the work I have put forth lately, and that is largely thanks to Professor Dahlia and producer, Ian Miller. They both have taken my conferences very seriously and have given me detailed feedback every single time, and after some mistakes everything lately has finally been clicking. I am by no means an expert, but I am now very confident when assigned an event to cover, that I can come through time and time again because of the work I have put in over the last few weeks.

The package I did for the fourth newscast was on the NCAA Rifle Championships. Although I did not make show, I was proud of my progress. I am not a natural at formulating story packages like others are, but getting a mid-B as a grade was something I could build off of for the remaining shows. 

For the third newscast, the story I covered was the press conference WVU Football Head Coach Neal Brown held introducing his newly hired staff. The conference was held in the team room at the Milan Puskar Center. Coach Brown only spoke for about five or seven minutes before he opened up the room for media to ask questions to any members of his newly hired staff. The staff would spread out around the room, openly ready for questioning from the media.

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