This is actually my first time going into
any sort of newsroom media type of place.
It was really cool watching it happen and
be produced.
I really liked that it focused on international
aspects, especially because I’m a public
policy major and that’s something that’s
really of interest to me.
So it was kind of nice to see that play out.
A lot of the components that we talked about
in class, we found here at Democracy Now!
Like not being tied to commercial interests,
and that kind of stuff.
I think it was just a really cool perspective
to actually see what we’ve been talking
about in class in the real world.
It’s definitely different, it gives you
a different perspective on what kind of journalism
can be out there.
As opposed to things that have corporate sponsors
and things like that, it’s totally a different
nature and I feel like I learned a lot more
coming out of the broadcast as opposed to
more mainstream news.
It was great to have students from all the
different mass media classes that I’m teaching
experience first hand what it is to have an
international news program that reaches a
substantial audience but from an independent
noncommercial public media perspective.
I think the students got a lot out of that.
