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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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At Fall Media Day, the keynote speaker Scott Greenstone encouraged students to always include balanced perspectives in a story when conducting their reporting.
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In its 98th year of the event taking place, University of Oregon once again hosted Fall Media Day, an opportunity for journalism students to learn more about topics like broadcast, photojournalism, reading, writing, and more throughout the day. Schools from all over the state, including a few from Washington, had the chance to attend.
On Monday, Dec. 9, 21 students from both the journalism and yearbook classes departed from La Salle at 6:30 a.m and traveled down to Eugene to make it in time for the keynote address.
In the on-site contests that took place during the event, The La Salle Falconer placed first in Best of Show in the online news site category.
Scott Greenstone, a politics reporter for KUOW, a Seattle-based NPR station, was the keynote speaker for the day. He spoke about his experience with journalism and his journey across different publications. Greenstone was joined onstage by his former professor, Dr. Peter Laufer, the James Wallace Chair Professor in Journalism at the School of Journalism and Communication at UO.
The keynote address, in a Q&A fashion, involved Laufer posing questions to Greenstone, and randomly picking a student from the crowd to have come up on stage so that Greenstone could demonstrate his interviewing process.
Initially, Greenstone wanted to be a fantasy novelist, but was encouraged by a college professor of his to join the student newspaper, so he began writing columns about other students. “It really changed my perspective about what I could do with my life,” he said.
Before coming to KUOW, he started at a smaller, local publication in Roseburg and expressed gratitude toward the experience as he could learn about his community. He noted that, while he got rejected from big publications prior to his current job, it was important to keep going. Greenstone encouraged students to be persistent when applying for job opportunities, and to persevere through a difficult job market.
Afterward, students had the option to either attend on-site contests in categories such as photography, video, and writing, or their first session of the day, typically hosted by professionals in the journalism realm and fellow advisers. Fall Media Day featured various sessions, each 50 minutes, for students to choose from. Whether it was “The Evolution of Journalism,” “How To Fact-Check Claims on Social Media,” or “Sports Media From High School to College,” students had the choice to choose from many for a total of four sessions throughout the day before the closing awards ceremony at 3 p.m.
![Now in her 26th year of teaching, Ms. Amy Gantt emphasizes that education is about helping others. “I hope for [students] to see that they had adults in their life who cared about them and who supported them and who were looking out for their wellbeing,” she said.](https://lasallefalconer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_1176-1200x800.jpeg)
