Friday, July 9 It’s Bluegrass Festival time here in Stratford, Iowa. I decided to shoot this package on my own to cover this little-known event. I ended getting up way too much footage, so hopefully I’ll be turning that into a good package Monday or Tuesday of next week.
Friday, July 2 I went into work today – and saw some interesting fireworks.
Friday, June 25 Today was Geoff Greenwood’s last day. We started off with a goodbye celebration in the newsroom. Words were read and cake was eaten. It seems like Geoff has had a great career at KCCI – starting out in production, then becoming a photog, then photog/reporter, then full-fledged investigative reporter. It sounds like […]
Friday, June 18 Early morning today! Since producers are on vacation/getting married, they’ve been doing some shifting, and I ended up working with just Chris Ludlow, the morning Executive Producer.
Friday, June 11 Although I didn’t work today, the story about Des Moines businesses using social media for advertising was finally posted on KCCI.com.
Saturday, June 5 This morning, we covered Dam to Dam, a race through Downtown Des Moines. KCCI is the media sponsor, so we covered it and did several live shots for the live Saturday morning show.
Thursday, May 20 I was photography today, but I did more in-house stuff. KCCI News Director Dave Busiek and Kevin Cooney looked at the stories Addison and I had edited the night before. It’s amazing how much is learned from listening to Dave for five minutes (he’s been a news director for a long time).
My first week at KCCI: A day with Steve Karlin, “Next Gen News,” WHY we do what we do, learning the ropes of producing, and an introduction to investigative reporting.
If you’re a college student, you’ve been there – an internship interview. I had one a couple months ago over the phone with CBS News. I had applied to their internship program in NYC a few days prior to receiving a phone call from their intern coordinator.