Re: High school students to take over CBC!

[Dan Say]

In article <hdcqav$t53$1...@morgoth.sfu.ca>, dani...@NOSPAMMyahoo.com (Dan Say) wrote:
> Would anyone notice a difference?
>
> Anyway, several pre-stories being flung about
> this Vancouver area experiment on radio and TV
> and the local cbc.ca/bc
>
>Students take over the airwaves
>
>Unique program mixes six Burnaby students with a CBC TV mentor to produce
>News Day in B.C.
>
>Jennifer Moreau, Burnaby Now
> Linkname: Students take over the airwaves
> URL:
> http://www2.canada.com/burnabynow/news/community/story.html?id=
> 988ee01b-6aa9-45ba-b84a-256136143f8c
> Published: Saturday, November 07, 2009
>
> Don't be shocked if a small army of teens takes over the CBC airwaves
> on Nov. 26. It's all part of News Day in B.C., a program that turns
> local high school students into radio and TV reporters, and six
> Burnaby students are participating.
>
> "We put them under the gun. They're journalists in training," said
> Cathy Kearney, a CBC TV field producer who is facilitating and
> producing News Day in B.C.
>
> Students from all over Metro Vancouver will spend the next few weeks
> preparing their stories, which will be broadcasted on Nov. 26. The
> stories will be on TV, (on CBC News: Vancouver, on at 5, 5:30 and 6
> p.m.) and on the radio - mostly on the Early Edition (5:30 to 8:37
> a.m.) and On the Coast (3 to 6 p.m.), but some of the scheduling has
> yet to be determined.
>
>[ PHOTO On the air: Cameraman Al Stewart and Theresa Lalonde interview Keefer
>Pelech
>from Hugh Boyd Secondary in Richmond, and Sarah Shahnazarian of Burnaby
>North Secondary. Contributed photo/BURNABY NOW
>
>
> Stories will also be posted online at www.cbc.ca/bc throughout the
> day. Students will be co-hosting some of the shows and reporting on
> sports and weather.
>
> The idea behind News Day in B.C. is to help the students develop
> skills in critical thinking, creative writing, media literacy,
> journalism, public speaking and problem solving.
>
> In turn, CBC gets a bit closer to Metro Vancouver's communities via
> the students.
>
> "With the way CBC works, it's important with us to reflect what going
> on in the community," said Kearney. "Teenagers especially, they have a
> very different perspective than we do."
>
> Alexis Scigliano of Alpha Secondary was "super excited" to hear she
> was selected for News Day in B.C. because she has always been
> interested in journalism.
>
> "It's been so much fun. We get to go to the news station all the time
> and do all sorts of fun things. They sent us out to do our own stories
> one day on Granville Street," she said. "You have to put so much into
> a story to make it work. All the people you have to contact, you have
> to be super organized."
>
> More than 100 students originally signed up for News Day in B.C. They
> went through a series of workshops with CBC journalists.
>
> After that, they were invited to audition, and 60 pitched their story
> ideas, proposing interview subjects and questions they would ask. Of
> those 60, 30 were selected for the project, six of whom are from
> Burnaby.
>
> Jingwei Pan, of Byrne Creek Secondary, pitched a story for radio on
> how new Canadian teens struggle to adjust to the country's norms. Pan
> has lived in Canada for three years and listened to CBC's Stuart
> McLean to help learn English, Kearney said. Pan's part will be a live
> piece on the Early Edition.
>
> Marisha Cruz from Byrne Creek Secondary is doing promos for TV and an
> events listing for radio.
>
> Also from Byrne Creek, Ali Pitargue will be doing TV "streeters" on a
> current news topic. Streeters are where reporters solicit random
> people on the street for their opinions on news topics.
>
> Scigliano is scheduled to present a calendar of events on CBC TV and
> on the radio. Her part will start airing Monday, Nov. 23. \Melissa
> Ziefflie, of Burnaby Central, is doing a TV piece on "over-programmed"
> teens and how this generation is overscheduled, over-programmed and
> overwhelmed to get into as many extracurricular activities and groups
>
> Sarah Shahnazarian, of Burnaby North Secondary, is working as a
> producer on a short news segment featuring a program called Kids For
> Kids, which helps bring sporting equipment, bikes and clothes to
> impoverished kids in a town in South Africa. She also did a
> promotional piece, like a commercial, that will start airing Monday,
> Nov. 23.
>
> Shahnazarian said the experience has been eye opening and fun.
>
> "It was so sad when the filming was over. We were so upset. It was
> such a fun day," she said, adding she heard about News Day in B.C.
> from her teacher Mr. Byrne. She's also considering a future in
> broadcasting, possibly entertainment news.
>