OSU Marching Band Media

2009 Fiesta Bowl Double Script Ohio - Photo Courtesy of Ben Ebel



OSU Band Director John Woods - Photo Courtesy of Ben Ebel



2009 Fiesta Bowl Parade - Photo Courtesy of Ben Ebel



2009 Fiesta Bowl Parade - Photo Courtesy of Ben Ebel



2009 Fiesta Bowl Parade - Photo Courtesy of Ben Ebel




--Given more time and resources I would definitely add to my multimedia aspect of my article. If I could report this story in the summer I would go and get some video coverage of the tryout process, and voice over the video to paint a better picture of the tryouts. This video would be a link in addition to any of the photos already posted above.

Job Shadowing at Channel 10

I shadowed at Channel 10 last Sunday, following around one of the Sports Producers in the preparation and production of the sports segment, Wall to Wall. This process was incredibly surprising the way broadcast functions in comparison to everything that I have been taught with print. The news process is very hectic, the news room itself is crowded, and noisy with people arguing and police dispatchers calling in crimes.

With about a half hour left the Wall to Wall was almost all cued up except for they needed a clip of Canada celebrating their gold medal win in hockey. This was difficult to get and reminds me that while I am faced with hurdles as a student journalists professional journalists are faced with problems as well. NBC had bought the rights to the Olympics; however channel 10 is a CBS affiliate and was given restrictions in terms of Olympic coverage. Channel 10 could try and go ahead and use this clip before the Olympics went off air, but then they could potentially be sued by NBC if they were to find out about it. The producer explained to me that this is just another part of the news, NBC pays a lot to cover the Olympics and deserves to set boundaries just like Channel 10 and CBS will when it comes time for March Madness. I wasn’t surprised that they handled the situation ethically but was more surprised at how many restrictions are placed in the broadcast world.

Also the anchor job is not nearly as glamorous as people make it out to be. I think in my head, I believed that they didn’t have as much responsibility as they actually do. While those in the news room receive the news initially the anchors have to help build their own scripts and then time it very accurately to hand off to producers.

Something that we had mentioned in class with regards to social networking was also addressed. People in the news room often times use Facebook as a helpful tool, in finding sources, information and in broadcast news especially, pictures. Especially in a bind as long as they can attribute the picture to Facebook, it is fair game and this is a particularly helpful tool with breaking news as photos may not be as accessible.

I received a great amount of insight on this profession that I so badly strive to. While many employees joked and told me to think about changing my mind I was intrigued by the fast pace environment of the news room. It was great to see what to work towards, and it was also great in helping me feel more comfortable in a broadcast newsroom, especially for when the day comes that I am expected to function in one.

Extra Credit, Higher Edu. Article Anaylsis

After reading the article from Higher Education, there are clearly two aspects in analyzing the issue of journalistic free labor in the form of journalism students. From the aspect of a journalism student, it is questionable whether or not it is ethical of journalism schools to enroll so many students under the circumstances of the current economy. This is true because with so many papers laying off workers, the chances for a journalism student to have a shot at a job is extremely slim. As students, they are paying expensive tuition in hopes of having a better chance at finding a job after graduation. However, this is giving them a great opportunity for coverage in major publications, and if the industry were to take off after their graduation this could potentially put them in a good position for a job. As a student in a j-school program, I would probably be there in part because of the poor industry so by writing for free in a paper with such a high readership I personally would not be opposed to helping out in the form of free labor.

However, many are skeptical of this idea of teaming up inexperienced young reporters with high profile publications. As an editor opposing this type of program I would have to take into consideration the large amount of veteran reporters that have recently been let go. They are too expensive to keep so papers will choose students as a form of free labor, making the already low paying job a free job in some cases. After researching a little more about the East Village local blog from this article I noticed that while this gives young journalists experience as an older editor I wouldn’t find this unethical because the fact still remains that the paper can’t afford veteran writers. So the decision comes down to this the smaller stories either aren’t written at all or they do by the j-school students and I don’t see the problem with that.

Ethics and Social Networking

After Reading the AJR Limits of Control, I considered the journalistic ethical values that should be timeless. Despite the constantly changing technology, journalists should still uphold one of the biggest values, transparency. With new networking sites I will have to agree with many media outlets’ decision to set limits on social networking. While the copy editor from the Seattle Times felt comfortable sharing her political beliefs on Facebook, I find it unethical. Kuramoto-Eidsmoe believes that journalists should be seen as “complete people”, and this can be true in terms of their private lives’, but when they are visible in their profession as journalists, their political opinions need to stay discrete for the sake of the profession.


The real question lies in how to allow journalists a private life without disrupting their professional careers? The AJR article touches on many solutions to this question; I believe that the best way to go about this is through two separate social networking accounts. Social networking can be a great way to find sources and information and so as a journalist this can be used as a tool. In this article describing twitter’s positive impact on journalism it goes without saying that journalists will get left behind if they don't utilize the fast-pace technology like twitter. That being said, journalists would have a page dedicated to social networking in a public and professional manner. There still are concerns as to how accurate Facebook can be in terms of journalism in this article by AJR, one journalist brings up the identity problem in which you never can know for sure who is really accessing their own Facebook.


However, journalists are still human and deserve the right to their own site where they can speak their opinions, in my mind this site should be under a completely different name. When people search for a specific journalist online they should only be able to find their professional page, and when friends and family wish to reach this person they can take extra measures to find their new name in order to protect the privacy of the journalist. Therefore ethically speaking journalists as humans deserve the right to free speech, but as journalists they owe it to the public to stay transparent in their opinions.

multimedia for final project

My final project is on the marching band, I am hoping to use a combination of multimedia to express my story. I will have a print section complete with the most meaningful photo I also wish to have a multimedia section that would have either a broadcast interview or a photo slide show to audio. Like the example, it would give a better description to the audio and transcript by using the photo slide show. While I like the concept of audio with pictures for a slide show, I don't believe that the print/photo slide show is as effective. With the combination of print and pictures it's too difficult to focus on both elements, especially with the picture being much larger than text it draws the most attention. Another example of multimedia that I would not hope to use in my own project is a panoramic moving image with a link to the story. While the image catches my eye for sure, I think they should make the story right underneath, either that or have the panoramic view with the story put to a transcript so audio can coincide with the image.

Paper's Decision to Twitter 3-year-old's funeral

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5790930&page=1

The Rocky Mountain News utilized social media by tweeting an up to date description at a 3-year-old's funeral. While twitter has become a useful tool for many journalism outlets this reporter was allowed in the funeral under strict circumstances that no photos would be taken. However, since the reporter could access twitter on his phone throughout the service, he was seen tweeting or what looked like typing or texting on his phone. While tweeting has somewhat been in competition with traditional reporting because of how fast it is to publish there is a time and place for that. In the article about the technology conference an up to date tweet was deemed appropriate however, with a funeral being such a personal affair having a reporter take notes every once in a while and having a reporter tweet on his phone through the entire service are completely different.

This example has brought upon not only obvious ethical questions but brought up the question of appropriate use of social media within the journalism field. The family was OK with reporters covering the boy's service but the tweets were morbid and inappropriate another difference between social media and traditional journalism. The reporters final tweet on the service was "family members shovel earth into grave." To me that is not only completely inappropriate but with new technology there should be some sort of ethical code developed just as print and broadcast journalists have their own ethical code.

Final Project Outline

Lead/Premise: People have mentioned that at OSU it is harder to make the marching band than the football team. What makes the OSU marching band the coveted “Best Damn Band in the Land.”
Potential Sources:
Stewart Kitchen: Former Drum Major of OSU marching band
Dr. John R. Woods: Ten-year band director for OSU marching band
Another band member
A source preferably in administration on tradition and the band
A student on their input on what the band stands for in their head
Someone involved in athletics, whether it be a football player or athletic director Gene Smith
Someone who went through the tryout process and their input on that(whether it be a band member or someone who didn’t make it)
Organization of the story:
-Start with a lead about the competitive nature of the tryouts
-Go into a member’s experience with the tryout
-Enter some statistics on how many people tryout each year and how many on average are actually chosen
-Enter the band directors input on the criteria of the tryout
-Input an athletic figure’s opinion on the difficulty of the tryout process or just opinion on the band in general
-Add in the administrations input on how important the OSU marching band is to the university
-Add in students input on what the marching band means to the university
Production of the story: I’m hoping to use the third option and combine the media in a 600-word story but then also use broadcast or video. In a perfect world, I would hopefully include a couple interviews as a part of the broadcast. I was also hoping to talk to the band director to see if they have any video available of recent band performances to include.
*This aspect of the project is still a little unclear for me, but I am hoping that after I assess what technology I am working with it will give me a better idea of what is feasible.
** Facebook could definitely be utilized to help my story. I found a facebook group for current and former members of the marching band and this would be a great tool to help me find sources. Also there is usually fan pages for student organizations on campus and while so far all I have found is the group there is still a chance that their is a relevant fan page available where fans, or friends and family of band members can post on the wall about upcoming events and their opinion on the band. This will give me more potential interviews. Also fan pages are public so any comments made can be viewed without being a "fan."

Broadcast Assignment

Good evening. I'm Mallory Treleaven - welcome to the 11 o'clock news.

The big story tonight is the Big Game. The storybook season continued for New Orleans as the Saints won its first Super Bowl title in franchise history, upsetting the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Miami. The game was close throughout the first 3 quarters. But momentum seemed to shift in the Saints favor when they recovered the onside kick in the second half. A 74 –yard interception return for a touchdown with two minutes to go put the game away and earned the Saints the championship.

In college basketball, The Buckeyes beat Iowa -- 68-58. Evan Turner scored 32 points in the game to ensure that Ohio State holds on to its Number 13 ranking. The Buckeyes are now 1 game out of first place in the Big Ten.

Former Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin brought the house to its feet with her keynote speech at the first National Tea Party Convention, held Saturday in Nashville. Palin criticized the current administration for not living up to its promise for 'change' and for not taking action to address the troubled economy.

And now for the weather. The Columbus area is bracing for another winter storm. The snow is expected to start Monday night, continuing through Wednesday. We could get up to 8” of snow. Please check our website for school closings.

The weather didn’t seem to hurt box office sales this weekend. “Dear John” the romantic film based on the Nicholas Sparks novel was the top grossing movie. In it’s opening weekend, the film made $32.4 million dollars -- knocking Avatar from the top spot after 7 weeks at number 1.

Finally, our sports editorial tonight. Another Ohio State football recruiting season came to a close this past Wednesday. Coach Tressel is again being criticized by some for missing out on those last few big-name recruits. I personally think Coach Tressel's approach is the best. Go after high quality recruits that fill positions of need and that want to play for the Buckeyes. Make a limited number of offers and get commitments that fill the class early in the process. Coach Tressel's results speak volumes PAUSE -more NFL players, more BCS games and victories and, of course, eight and one against Michigan. That, after all, is why they play the games.

Live Nation Entertainment names Danny Caterinicchia Senior Vice President

Live Nation Entertainment announces it is opening a new Dallas office. Top music promoter, Danny Kat-er-ini-kia is the new Senior Vice President.

Kat-er-ini-kia has produced more than 3 thousand concerts from 1978-2002. He was previously employed by AEG Live as their Senior Vice President.

Kat-er-ini-kia has worked to bring high-profile artists to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Some key artists include, Guns N' Roses and The Eagles. He is looking forward to bringing more great artists in with Live Nation Entertainment.

Kat-er-ini-kia will be responsible for the concert promotion at Live Nation-owned venues.

Live Nation Entertainment promotes hundreds of concerts annually in their owned venues.

Live Nation Entertainment will be merging with Ticketmaster.