Must See Monday

  The Cronkite school holds events every Monday appropriately called "Must see Mondays". At these events speakers with careers in the Journalism field talk directly to students. Monday, Aug. 29th I attended a M.S.M titled "Meet the Women of AZ TV News". Five female anchors from the Phoenix area formed the panel and revealed their personal stories about working in the industry and spoke of their opinions on issues relevant to today's journalism students. Each anchorwomen had insightful information for us.
  When asked about their view on social media the women of AZ  news all agreed that it is useful in the industry. They did have differences in opinions on the issue of how much personal information to put out there. Lin Sue Cooney of 12 News cautioned, "it does change how people perceive you and feel about you."  Carey Pena, anchor at KTVK 3, stated, "you need to be accessible." in regards to being a source for news in the mediums of Twitter and Facebook. Carey sympathized with our generation by realizing the difficultly in growing up with social media as a daily part of our early life. It's interesting to hear how these women, working in the journalism field, take advantage of a medium that was not around when they where learning the industry.
 The ladies where asked to tell us about their experiences reporting their first stories. ASU alumni, Katie Raml of ABC 15, first commented that, " gear is way better here", then went on to us that while filming her first story she was given a camera with a tripod that didn't want to cooperate; summarizing some of the difficulties that she faced when first starting off. Catherine Anaya of CBS 5, had what most onlookers would call a luxury; she started off as an anchor right away. Catherine explained the difficulties of doing all the jobs of production when she first started off. She explained the multitasking it took to run the tella-promtor and  keep up with her scrip at the same time. These stories gave me a chance to see that behind the camera and pretty smile the women of AZ news are human. They worked hard to get where they are in their careers. Monday's meeting gave me hope and inspiration to stay with my dream. Linda Williams of Fox10, gave some advice that has stuck with me, " don't listen to the nay-sayers, there are so many niches." M.S.M. was a chance to look into the future and see what my life can be. I'm grateful to be part of a school which allows for opportunities
like this.

-Kat