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Documentation
of Supplemental Outreach Initiatives
Documentation
of Supplemental Outreach Initiatives 4/01/06-4/01/07
WKMS-FM
Station manager met with prospective employees during career
fair, October 12, 2006, Murray State University.
We
continue to operate a news internship recruiting and training
Murray State University students, undergraduate and graduate
students, without prior broadcasting experience. The students
acquire news reporting, research, writing, and digital editing
skills. Of these students two advanced to on-air feature production
and performance.
We
continue to offer broadcast training to any volunteers who wish
to become involved in the station. Usually we offer several
hours of board training for potential air-talent, then offer
them board work during the weekend. We also train volunteer
commentators, should they wish to produce their own air product
in WKMS studios.
WKMS
maintains an open door for students who wish to job shadow from
the local school systems. We have enjoyed new relationships
from these monthly day-long employment modeling visits. The
students have been of middle school and high school age and
we've had one per semester up until this semester when the student
involved dropped away from the program due to a death in her
family. During their days at WKMS these students typically do
jobs in all areas of the broadcast unit. One, an eighth grader,
wrote copy for a press-release going out the next day…most
of which was useable.
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