{"id":8238,"date":"2025-07-22T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:21:38","slug":"broadcast-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/07\/broadcast-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from behind the desk: How cherubs broke into broadcast journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Savannah Smith of San Carlos, California, said she has \u201calways been really envious\u201d of students who have broadcast opportunities at their high schools. At cherubs, she jumped at the opportunity to utilize Medill\u2019s multimedia facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI was really amazed,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThe equipment itself is just past anything I could ever imagine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For cherubs like Smith, sitting behind the desk in the McCormick Foundation Center\u2019s television studio was the first time they had ever experimented in broadcast journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MFC is home to Medill\u2019s newly renovated broadcast studio, which features a wide variety of technology. As part of Broadcast Lab, a three-part class about the basics of video journalism, and Sunday\u2019s Broadcast Club led by instructor Carlin McCarthy, Cherubs were able to explore and record in the studio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Will Hansen of Missoula, Montana, said he never had access to any broadcast equipment prior to cherubs. He remembers his first experience in the Medill studio as \u201cvery overwhelming at first.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThere\u2019s lots of different lights and screens. But once Carlin started to explain what everything did and what everything was used for, it definitely got really exciting,\u201d Hansen said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He added that the opportunities available in the MFC studio allowed him to break out of his comfort zone and explore a new form of journalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt really expanded my view of journalism from just being exclusively print media to more of a multimedia art form, which I think is a very valuable perspective,\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hansen said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherubs didn\u2019t just learn how to write \u2014 they also took classes in photo, audio and video journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":8354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,342],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[510],"class_list":["post-8238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-front-page-campus"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":510,"user_id":206,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mollychodos","display_name":"Molly Chodos","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e7f2250289a4646b7ba8737156ea15b0b089a96e9ca17045b2f8e98f9179b8d8?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Chodos","first_name":"Molly","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9730,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions\/9730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}