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.