photo by Lauren Good

April Vitello edits video for MU Report, which airs on PBS every other Sunday at 12:30 p.m.

MU Report segments to air on WSAZ morning show

by LAUREN GOOD
reporter

Tune in Saturday morning to see six Marshall students on WSAZ News Channel 3.

Better yet, set the VCR.

WSAZ will begin featuring one segment of MU Report on their 6 a.m. newscast Feb. 24. The students' segment will air the first half hour of the newscast, said Anna Knighton, WSAZ producer and senior broadcast journalism major.

WSAZ will pick one of the segments that MU Report produces. The segments will add "a Marshall flavor to" the newscast, Dan Hollis, adviser of the class, said.

"I think [being asked] shows the quality of our program here at Marshall," Hollis said.

"It's a challenge and it's an opportunity for them," he said, since the students will be competing against each other for their segment to air.

MU Report is produced six times a semester by students for their journalism 351 class. MU Report airs on the West Virginia Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

MU Report students are Brandy Barkey, Charlie Carl, Homer Dawson, Lena Devi, Jerod Smalley and April Vitello.

Some of the students already have experience at WSAZ. Dawson works there as an intern. Smalley works there part-time and does some on-camera work.

Since WSAZ picks the segment, the students won't know until the airing of the show whose story was selected for that week.

The students seem unaffected by their new-found fame.

Most of them said they would be setting their VCRs on Friday night instead of waking up for it.

Barkey jokingly said her whole family, with VCRs ready, would be tuning in to see if her segment made it.