Public Broadcasting

I worked at KBIA this week for my newsroom shifts. For those of you who don’t know KBIA is Columbia’s NPR affiliate. My shifts were in the news department working on local stories to air during breaks in the afternoon NPR programming. I really enjoyed the atmosphere in the newsroom. It has a surprisingly laid back feel considering everyone is working on broadcast deadlines. It must be interesting to work on live broadcast deadlines all the time. It provides a very definite moment when your story MUST be done or it simply will not air. I ended up working on a few stories over the two days I was there. Thursday I did a piece about Earth Hour. I did a short version for that afternoon and a longer one with VOs for the next morning. Yesterday I did two short pieces. The first was about Columbia Photo staying open under new ownership, and the second was about the city officially submitting its application for the Google fiber network.