The Horizon is a great newspaper and a great way to get information about what’s going on at school and in the community. But did you know that there is a Horizon Newscast online?
You don’t have to wait for the paper to come out to see the news. You can just go to IUS.edu and click on “Horizon Student News” and click on the link for the “Horizon Newscast.” We wanted students to have yet another means to gain information about IU Southeast and the community. You can even view videos of stories we have done since 2006.
You see, some of the deans and chancellors at IU Southeast think it’s funny to continue to deny students funding for a broadcast program. However, I find it rather irritating. In fact, it darn well ticks me off. Students in the journalism program have shown interest in a broadcasting program for years now. Hell, we even had a class for broadcasting back in the day. What happened? So instead of sulking around and just accepting the fact that we are never going to have funding because some people must not like news you can watch, we have taken it upon ourselves to create a newscast.
As the editor of The Horizon Newscast, I value everyone who wants to get involved in it. Ron Allman, the adviser for The Horizon, has given us the opportunity to create a newscast.
Those that wanted to do broadcast could. He has taken money out of his own budget for the newspaper and the journalism department to buy us cameras, microphones, tripods and other necessary things to create this newscast. Sweet, isn’t he? What other teacher would do that after getting denied over and over again?
A smart one. One who realizes that people watch the news more and more each day rather than read the paper (no offense to my people of The Horizon.) One that understands the future of journalism. Maybe some of the head honcho wannabes at IU Southeast will listen to him in the next few years so we could actually be ahead in something.
What am I thinking? The only programs that get real funding at this school are athletics and anything having to do with the dorms.
No schools in this area offer a broadcast program. The closest ones are Western Kentucky University and Ball State. Shout out to Professor Jim St. Clair, he represents in his classes and stresses the importance of broadcast in journalism.
The reporters doing the newscast have a desire to do this outside of their normal class schedules. Not only do they have to go to class, then they have to go do their story, get someone to film it and then give it to me to edit.
Being in the journalism field, we don’t have homework, we have professional work that has to be done to create news. Our homework is potentially seen by thousands.
All I’m saying is that The Horizon Newscast does exist. So go and check us out.
Doesn’t that sound like fun? Now, we are still very new. We don’t have any kind of budget [taking a moment to curse the ‘superior beings’ that decide who gets what money], and we are still working on perfecting it. Please feel free to give us feedback. Let us know what you think. And if you are interested in doing broadcast, even if it’s just for fun, join us!
By NIKKI FOUCH
Broadcast Editor
bnfouch@ius.edu
