By Dave Cupp, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
These are times of great change for those of us who have traditionally taught students how to create news stories for radio and television. We are now trying to prepare students as well for challenges posed by new platforms, which could fall under umbrellas labeled ‘electronic’ ‘online’ ‘emerging’ and/or ‘digital’. Indeed, we’re engaged in an RTVJ renaming discussion right now, trying to decide what we should call ourselves to better reflect our new reality.
As we retool our classes to include new skills, I hope we can also upgrade instruction in an area that I fear is too often neglected – voice. Whether our students are working on-air or online, if they are sharing their stories by speaking we should be helping them to speak more effectively.
