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TV anchors must get it right - now ■Journalism majorsare the largest group of University graduates this year, and their work isn’t easy Roman Gokhman for the Emerald The best way to learn about a job that interests you is to follow an ac complished person for a day. Here’s what I learned while job-shadowing KMTR reporter and news anchor Tasha Emmons. Being a journalist is no walk in the park. Emmons’ line of work is replete * a'S* and the Reporter’s m°ral C<T v—virtinn tn hasn’t let that stop her from enjoying her job and learning from the many unique experiences presented in this challenging atmosphere. Take, for example, Emmons’ story on a shooting of a mother of two in Saint Joseph, Mo. This was no ordi nary incident. A woman, blind in one eye, was with her two kids when a man walked out of his apartment strapped with guns and explosives and began shooting. The mother of the two children was shot in her eye and became blind. Emmons was in spired by the woman, who told her that she was glad it was she who got shot and not her children. “Meeting incredible people and the situations that people are put into is interesting. I learn something new every day,” says Emmons. Al though she prefers spot reporting, Emmons loves the excitement that comes with every story. “You’re never know [what story you will be assigned] that is exciting,” she says. Emmons reports to work at 9:15 a.m., stepping into a crowded news room filled with computers, televi sions showing morning shows from all the major networks, desks cov ered with notebooks, newspapers, old family photos and bumper stickers. She holds a can of Slim-Fast because it’s convenient and contains vitamins and nutrients, and because she cannot cook her own meals — with dead lines, stress NOTEBOOK viction to get the story right. How ever, she not even macaroni and cheese. After a daily meeting at which re porters are assigned stories, Em mons records teasers — a series of clips that will be used in commer cials promoting the 5 o’clock news cast. Next, she calls her story con tacts and sets up interviews. “It’s always good to personalize the story,” she says. She slowly gets into a station vehicle with her cam eraman and begins to prepare her questions while the cameraman drives to the location. Besides camera operators and an chors, there are many different posi tions in broadcast journalism. KMTR News Director Mike Wesley encourages graduating seniors to “consider an area in television that is not an on-air position [such as] a producer, news writer or assign ment editor, which is an easier way to get a foot in the door. ” Broadcast journalism is only one of many fields that journalism grad uates may enter. Photography, newspapers, magazine journalism and public relations are just as unique and challenging. University journalism professor Scott Maier used to work as an international re porter and traveled to foreign na tions such as Nicaragua, El Sal vador, Mexico and Cuba. “I wanted to be where the news was happening,” says Maier. Whether in South America, Wash ington, D.C., or right here in Eugene, news stories are waiting to be found everywhere. Today, Emmons’ story features a new type of laser hair removal. Af ter interviewing a nurse and a doc tor, her cameraman gets film of a pa tient being treated while she writes down how the procedure works for her conclusion. When it is time to tape the conclusion, several takes are needed to get it right. In televi sion, nine times out of ten, nothing is perfect, she says. After returning to the newsroom at 3 p.m., Emmons writes her story and prepares for the newscast. She and her co-anchor Marc Mullins are the only ones in the studio. As the KMTR intro is rolling on a televi sion, Emmons reads over her script one last time. 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