Live from True/False

For my first shift at KOMU I worked with Alex Rozier. The KOMU shift for a convergence reporter consists of shadowing a reporter working on a story for one of the day’s newscasts. The convergence reporter is supposed to observe the person they are following and take still photos related to the story for KOMU’s website. The whole situation was a pleasant surprise. I was a little worried that I would get assigned to a story that didn’t have a very good visual element. Alex was covering the grand opening of the True/False film festival live on the 5:00 and 6:00 newscasts. It was really neat to see how the live spots work. They weren’t able to communicate with the station through the typical channel so they used cell phones and did the story without the ability to hear the cues from the studio broadcast. For my part I took some photos inside the packed box office on Ninth Street. The slideshow I made is running alongside Alex’s story on KOMU.com. You can see the story here.