à la carte workshops Broadcast Performance
About the workshop
This one-hour workshop gives students useful advice on personal performance techniques used for broadcast journalists. We’ve never looked at television anchors and reporters as performers, but anyone studying broadcast communications knows you must be a good journalist and effective on-air performer. Professional TV journalists know that doing the news is as much a performance as appearing on the stage. In this workshop you will learn many of the skills broadcast journalists use to inform their audiences and come across as credible journalists on the air. These same skills are useful for public speaking and personal presentations.
Learning Objectives
- To understand how to effectively use tone, timbre and pacing with our voices when delivering the news
- To recognize ways our physical appearance, when we deliver the news, communicates confidence, trust, and credibility to audiences
- To interpret the news and other information we present to audiences to make our messages most effective
Faculty Lead: Barney McCoy
Barney McCoy worked as a television news anchor and reporter for 27 years before he became a broadcast journalism professor.
McCoy has worked as a documentary director and producer, television and print news reporter, photographer, news producer, and anchor. He has been employed by WIBW-TV, Topeka, KS., KCTV, Kansas City, MO, WKBD-TV, Detroit, MI., WILX-TV, Lansing, MI. and WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH.
He has been honored with numerous television, radio, and multimedia news awards. His television documentary "Black Jack Pershing: Love and War" was a 2018 recipient of a national Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, an Award of Excellence, Special Mention from the Accolade Global Film Competition, an Award of Excellence from the Impact DOCS Global Documentary Competition, an Award of Excellence from the Broadcast Education Association, and an Eric Sevareid Award from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
McCoy holds a master's degree in telecommunications management from Michigan State University. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.
If the faculty lead is not available to teach a workshop, another qualified faculty member will be arranged.
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