Five, four, three, two, one, SEND!
The command signaled the conclusion of the day’s work, which consisted of a two-hour morning panel discussion. Lynn Hoppes, senior director of ESPN.com, moderated a panel featuring Greg Lee, senior assistant sports editor of the Boston Globe, Lisa Olsen, sports writer at AOL FanHouse.com, and Hampton graduate Florence Brown, a copy editor at USA Today. Hoppes and the audience asked the panelists questions about the future of journalism, internship opportunities and career advice.
“Be a journalist,” Lee said as his last statement, highlighting the importance of media convergence in today's journalism field. “It doesn’t matter if you're interested in careers in broadcast or print. Even if you're interested in taking photos. At the end of the day, you‘re a journalist.”
The journalists carried this advice with them on a five-minute walk through campus to the Armstrong Stadium football offices, where Rose and senior defensive end Brandon Peguese answered questions from the media about the upcoming game against Florida A&M University.
“You guys need to come every week,” Rose said before releasing information about his injured starting quarterback's status.“These are some good questions.”
After all the questions were asked, the journalists returned to the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications for a luncheon with the professionals before working together to edit video footage, write advanced stories, upload photos and Tweet. Fifteen professionals coached and mentored the students one-on-one during the 90-minute deadline. Students benefited from the collaborative learning environment.
“The APSE event was uplifting more than anything,” said Ryan Dennis, a senior broadcast journalism major from Scarsdale, N.Y. “Because here are real professionals, real people who are working hard, but took time from their day to help us. They didn’t give us any fluff. They told us if you want to be a star you just have to work hard. Just to hear that was uplifting.”
APSE's Day of Diversity ended with a final recap, as Amber Nettles, mobile and social media manager of the Daily Press, uploaded the content and featured the print and video stories on the Dailypress.com. http://www.dailypress.com/news/hampton/hampton-university/
For the third consecutive year, the Scripps Howard Foundation will offer internship stipends to two Hampton University students
interested in journalism careers. The two students will receive a $3,000 stipend and a $500 scholarship for the summer of 2011 and join the Sports Journalism Institute's Class of 2011 during a week-long “boot camp“ at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Both students will be placed at APSE member newspapers. The Sacramento Bee, Riverside Pres-Enterprise, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette and Baltimore Sun have been the host papers the past two years.
