One of our Medill Alums is now a producer at Nightline. She invited us over to check out their news operation at ABC. Why not?
I have pix. Will post later.
I felt a bit drained…but I went anyways.
We watched George Stephanopoulos interview a soldier and his wife – from the control room.
George popped his head in the control and said “hi.”
We took a tour of the offices and the edit bays. Then a producer from “This Week” – gave us some words of wisdom. He’s a Medill alum as well.
Then a producer for “Nightline” answered questions and gave us some advice on how to get a job.
During the job hunting portion of his talk…he said his son attended Stanfurd. So he spoke to journalism students at Stanfurd. The eager beavers came up to him and said, “Someday, I want to be your anchor.”
Then he told us….”Then the Berkeley students would tell me: I’ll be your janitor, I’ll sweep floors, I’ll do anything you need. Just so that they could a foot int the door.”
He told us he would never hire those fools from Stanfurd. I said, “Go bears!”
Another good piece of advice. Open up a separate account and put money it. Use the savings as your “Go to hell” account. So, if you ever have an editor who sends you out on a sleezy/questionable story – you know you can refuse and fall back on your “Go to hell” account. He still keeps one, to this day.