The Life of a UK Journalism Student — Online
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 1, 2020) — Journalism students in the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media have always worked hard to produce, anchor and edit a daily 30-minute live newscast that airs live Monday-Thursday as part of the Student News Network on Spectrum cable channel 184.
With most universities across the country, including UK, moving to fully online instruction in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, the challenge became how to do all of these in-studio, in-person tasks remotely to keep the broadcast on air.
Watch the video above to see what a day in the life is like for the students in the UK College of Communication and Information who produce the newscasts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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