Erie News Now regularly visits the Media Literacy Class taught by Alex Samples at Fairview Middle School. Today it was my turn to visit and talk with the students about broadcast journalism.
It was a privilege to share thoughts on how we in the news business decide on a daily basis –thinking through questions such as: What is news? How we should report on it? How to report new fairly? And what images shouldn’t be seen on TV?
Along with Erie News Now photographer Brian Schneiders, who captured the day with his cameras, we talked about the challenges of how we do our journalism jobs…