This
#TVnews
business is… interesting. 🙄
Nexstar advertising a breaking news reporter job in Washington DC (market
#8
) at $20-25/hour. That’s $41,600-52,000 per year. You ever spend a weekend in DC let alone try to live there on $41K a year? 😂
Proud of our
@penn_state
student journalists today for standing their ground and doing their live shot, despite being hassled by employees of the same university! The crew was outside in a public place on the campus of their own public university!
#journalism
#PressFreedom
When I first started teaching at PSU 8 years ago it was a Pres. election year. On election night I did what any good news manager does— bought a ton of pizza for the newsroom. My students were horrified when this showed up. I learned there’s a time and a place for Canyon 😂 🍕
And just like that, the set is dark after today’s final show. 11 years of Penn State
@CentreCountyRep
student-produced newscasts in this studio. Next stop: our fancy new studio in the
@PSUBellisario
media center.l
When I get emails like this from news directors, I know
@PSUBellisario
and our students are doing something right. To our broadcast journalism grads, keep representing
@penn_state
well!
So many Penn Staters, including me, are devastated by this loss. To say
@webcurtpsu
is “beloved” is an understatement. One of the coolest, friendliest, most talented people you could ever meet. We’re all blessed to have known Curt. ❤️
It just makes me laugh that in the year with no
#PennState
football tailgating or fans, EVERY Saturday has been the most spectacular tailgate weather you could imagine 😂 Can’t make this up! 🙄
To: everyone
From: me
Annual reminder— Super Bowl is 2 words! Journalists, fans, everybody… it’s 2 words. 😁
❌ Superbowl
✅ Super Bowl
Example: see logo
Exception: hashtags
#SuperBowlLVIII
Here endeth the lesson 👍
DAY ONE: Very happy to be back teaching in-person, on campus, for the first time since March! Welcome back
@PSUBellisario
students! Let’s do this!!
#PennState
Well, in my 35 years in TV news I never thought I’d see a newscast produced entirely from home. But my
@PSUBellisario
students just pulled it off! With no access to our studio, they just produced a remote newscast on the coronavirus. WELL DONE!
#TVnews
#WeAre
#PennState
TODAY'S NEWSCAST: Our
@PSUBellisario
@penn_state
news team has created our first-ever remotely-produced newscast to bring you coverage of the coronavirus and its effects in our region. Take a look at today's special edition of
@CentreCountyRep
:
Just our
#PennState
student journalists scoring a one-one-one interview with the Prime Minister of Estonia on the country’s election night 🇪🇪👍 We’re so proud of their professionalism and preparation for this international reporting trip!
Good news to brighten up these crazy days: our
@PSUBellisario
students just won 10 first place awards in the Society of Professional Journalists region one Mark of Excellence Awards! Including best newscast (
@CentreCountyRep
) & best news magazine (Puerto Rico). CONGRATS all! 👍
Checked in on our new
#PennState
@PSUBellisario
media center. Still plenty of work to do but it’s going to be awesome when it opens this Fall! Can’t wait to welcome students into this facility!
photos 1-4:
@CentreCountyRep
control room/studio
Not too shabby for a pandemic, non-political year: $1.1 billion in total 3rd qtr revenue for Nexstar! Now, how about investing in existing and soon-to-be employees with much-needed and much-deserved pay raises for 2022 (and not 1%)?
#TVnews
#GreatResignation
Not to brag about my
@penn_state
broadcast students... Ok, I will 😁 They are doing INCREDIBLE work! The
@CentreCountyRep
team has done 14 PKGs for web and social media this week while reporting from their hometowns and updating our social media channels.
#TVnews
#reporting
Major congrats from
@TV_Agent
and me to our client
@jennymilk
on her new job! She’ll be the new afternoon personality on Chicago’s WSHE-FM 100.3, with co-host Jay Styles. So happy for you Jenny!
#MediaStars
Our College is building this: a new on-campus media center for our students, including multiple TV studios. One of the reasons I love working here at
@penn_state
— we don’t settle for status quo. Here’s a sneak peek at the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center design.
An open design to encourage collaboration and creativity anchors state-of-the-art plans for the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center, set to open in 2020. Virtual tour created by Studios Architecture:
I’ll forever respect this young man, not only because he’s the best athlete in college football, but for how he acted while at
#PennState
. Thank you
@saquonb21
!
My first semester teaching at PSU: ordered a stack of Canyon pizzas (I had no idea! 😫) for the newsroom on election night. Their reaction said it all... I’d made a terrible mistake. Never happened again 😂
Big congrats to our
@penn_state
students who helped raise $10.6 million at
@THON
(in the middle of a pandemic) for pediatric cancer research and patient/family support. Well done!
#WeAre
Want to take a minute to give a shout-out to my dude
@Zach_Kaplan5
and all our recent
@PSUBellisario
grads who are getting reps in their first TV jobs. Zach told me how “prepared” he felt going into this job and he did 5 live hits on his first on-air day. He’s killing it!
It was a cold one...but I officially got to make my on-air debut here last night. Check out my live hit from our statewide newscast in the wake of a winter storm bringing record low temps and snow here to Helena.
Wow, these
@penn_state
student journalists did an incredible job tonight with our
@CentreCountyRep
election coverage! Live TV cut-ins from 7-11pm, 3 live locations, even live Spanish-language updates! Plus Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Very proud of their work 👍
It was GREAT to see 105,000+ together again and having FUN yesterday! Too much negativity in the world right now. Enjoy your life 😊
Thanks for an awesome game day
@penn_state
@PennStateFball
Wow, I’m so proud of our
@penn_state
@PSUBellisario
student journalists! They won 3
@EmmyMidAtlantic
college awards tonight, including best newscast, news reporting, and a feature story on whisky in Scotland from our international reporting trip. Congrats team!!
Watching
@NBCNightlyNews
and it’s just a parade of terrifying adjectives: “alarming,” “staggering,” “deepening,” and the list goes on. How about backing off on the fear adjectives and do just one newscast with straight facts? C’mon
@LesterHoltNBC
, I challenge you.
#TVnews
TV people: it’s time for my annual reminder for your scripts and graphics. Super Bowl is two words.
Superbowl ❌
Super Bowl ✅
This has been a media public service announcement. 😁
#TVnews
Really proud of our student journalists for the outstanding job they did all day and tonight with live election coverage! It’s great experience and they absolutely nailed it!
@PSUBellisario
@penn_state
#Election2020
What’s the socially acceptable limit for number of days in a row you can wear the same sweatshirt? Asking for a fr... ok, myself... I’m asking for myself.
I’m totally thrilled for our
@penn_state
@PSUBellisario
students— they just won first place for our
@CentreCountyRep
in Israel program in the 2019 regional SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards for best TV news magazine! A lot of hard work on that show paid off.
#PennState
#TVnews
There it is! Congrats to our
@penn_state
@PSUBellisario
student journalists on their
@EmmyMidAtlantic
student production award nominations, including the best newscast category.
Incredibly proud of their efforts and all college journalists during the pandemic. Well done!
Just found out our
@penn_state
@PSUBellisario
students have been nominated for a national college Emmy for their “
@CentreCountyRep
in Puerto Rico” news special. Congrats to them! So proud their hard work is recognized yet again.
#TVnews
Look, I really do love living in State College. It’s a great college town. But someday, when I retire, I think
@PamKraycik
and I need to move a wee bit south where they have more degrees 😂🥶
You know you’ve been in the TV biz a long time when you see people you’ve worked with in different decades! On ESPN today:
@sagesteele
my former colleague in Tampa and
@erinkatedolan
my former PSU student talking sports in the same live shot 😊
Wow... got this incredibly nice email from a recently-graduated student who was just hired at a good TV station. It’s gratifying to know our
@PSUBellisario
College is preparing students well for the broadcast journ world. This is why we do what we do.
#TVnews
#PennState
Big thanks to
@CollegeGameDay
’s Tom Rinaldi for taking time to join our
@CentreCountyRep
newscast today! GameDay is back in Happy Valley for the 4th straight year and the crew always makes time for our
@PSUBellisario
student journalists.
CONGRATULATIONS to my
@penn_state
@PSUBellisario
students graduating today! Good luck to you all. It’s been a blast getting to know you and teaching you.
#WeAre
I have to laugh when I see a TV job posting that requires only two years of experience, but goes on to ask for a "proven track record" of ratings growth and leadership. That's a lot to ask of someone with just 24 months in the biz :) cc:
@TV_Agent
Happy to announce our PSU student newscasts will soon expand their reach thanks to a new streaming partnership with
@WNEP
in
Scranton/Wilkes Barre!
Our
@CentreCountyRep
newscasts are also aired on
@WPSU
, and streamed by
@KDKA
and
@CBSPhiladelphia
.
Check out this promo
@KDKA
did to promote student-produced newscasts from Penn State (
@CentreCountyRep
) and Pitt, now streaming on CBSN Pittsburgh.
(Penn State-Pitt, rivals in sports, not in journalism 😄)
#TVnews
#journalism
Really proud of my Penn State
@PSUBellisario
students today— 3 live shots in their newscast and they had
@CollegeGameDay
’s
@davidpollack47
on set for an interview! That was crazy busy... but very good 👍
I don’t know what y’all’s college newscasts are doing today, but our students are doing live team coverage of the
#2018NFLDraft
from Dallas and Beaver Stadium. This
@CentreCountyRep
team NAILED it today! 👍