Almost here...

Friends. Family. Fun. This weekend is going to be filled with wrapping up all the memories I have to share at the greatest place on earth--Mizzou.

I have had a great run here with many ups and downs, its been real as ever though. Reality is upon me and I am prepared for whatever comes my way. The state of the biz is just that the state of the biz, I am going to take it and run with it and along the way learn from it. Its only changing because the people are changing...We have to understand that no one wants it the way they did in the 50s...or even the 80s and 90s, for that matter.

Its going to be a wild ride, but I'm ready for whatever comes my way. I'm excited to embrace the changes that may come even as soon as I walk across that stage on Saturday. Its awesome!

So prepare for an update sometime next week about how the job search is going...I leave Tuesday for Honolulu, Hawaii. Should be fun, my family and when I say family --- my dad and I are going there for a celebratory gift after grad. We're staying on the Waikiki beach. Should be a good time, since I haven't taken a trip with him in YEARS.

Til next time, later!

Wrapping things up

Tying up loose ends here and trying to end things on a good, positive note.

I was walking to the library yesterday and walking past, Brady, our old student union--and its getting torn down for a new BIGGER AND BETTER Student Center. The memories came flowing through my mind. I can remember the first story I shot for MUTV--the college television station--freshman year on the Legion of Black Collegian's list of demands to MU higher-ups.

That wasn't the only memory I had of that place either...but, Im kinda bummed I wont even get to really use the new "Brady." What are they going to call it anyway? LOL.

Off that topic...before I start thinking about how Im going to MISS all the GREAT people that I've met over the past 4 years! :/ I'm excited to embark on an entirely different experience though---starting my career. I am excited to learn new things, use technology to its fullest potential possible in my future job, I want to get more people close to me on Twitter too. I want the Mom on it, since she could text updates. She didn't understand Facebook. She's coming to visit for the first time for graduation.

To wrap things up here, the last few weeks have been crazy...Vegas (RTNDA), finishing the big multi-platform BusinessWeek.com project with my group members and working on my capstone project with iTunes U and the incoming journalism freshmen...Its been a HUGE challenge getting everything done...oh and not to forget job hunting and my other classes.

I'm looking forward to traveling after graduation!!! I'm going to Hawaii with my dad and I really want to go hiking in the volcanoes (not the HOT ones I hope). This should be a fun trip and a great time to catch Dad up on my life and catch up on his as well.

That's all for now. I'll make another post sometime this weekend...Have a good one.

In the meantime, read this article about stations "sharing video," times are changing--any effort to save money, managers are doing what they can...sounds all too familiar from RTNDA. Here's the link to the article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-tue-rosenthal-0505-may05,0,7639093.story

So much to do...

Hahaha...random thought of the day: Meet the Press' intro is so dramatic...the music and all is crazy! Gotta love it though.

Right now I am catching up on a few classes and watching MTP update on Swine from leaders working closely with it in the US government.

Its interesting to note Swine flu is making its way all over the US---Louisiana even announced cases today in a news conference I was able to follow via twitter from KATC down in Lafayette, LA.

In other news, Columbia's weather has been weird as ever---looking forward to Hawaii in a couple weeks! It doesn't even feel like its this close. Can't wait to soak up some sun and see a different part of the country...oh and volcano hiking with Dad should be fun!

SWINE FLU!!!

Not to scare anyone, because I feel like a lot of the national media is hyping the swine flu thing up way too much BUT: KOMU 8 reported today the first case of swine in MO.

Its not in mid-Missouri, but instead near Kansas City.

Nixon is working to get vaccines to Platte county, where the virus was detected.

Officials aren't saying much about the case itself. Hopefully we will hear more soon.

I was watching nightly news tonight and the reporter said the masks don't do much help, which totally makes sense. The particles of the virus are small enough to seep through the masks. Interesting.

Stay tuned.

Vegas

woahh...What a week that just passed. I went to the RTNDA@NAB conference in Las Vegas for a week of broadcast journalism! It was a great experience and I learned a lot.

The industry is going through a lot of changes right now and the name journalist is going through a transition to multimedia journalist. We, as journalists, have to be able to submit content to different platforms, be able to edit and what not in the field and use other elements of the internet to capture the attention of our viewers.

I didn't know this, but some stations are already using Skype to do live shots from distant places. I talked to a news director in Indiana and he said some of his reporters are doing that now. I think that's awesome. I'd love to be able to just travel to a story, gather my elements for a pack or VO/SOT and edit it on my laptop send it to the station then do a Skype live shot from the scene. I can see this being really useful in the future and I'm sure the quality will get better.

This industry is changing, but there's only one way to live through it right now--adapt! I am totally all about the technology that is allowing journalists to report more efficiently and I hope this isn't the end. I'm sure it isn't.

There was a job fair at the convention, there were a few television corporations...it was sort of interesting how many students were there, but not as many corporations. I passed out tapes and resumes to a few corporations...made good contacts as well.

It was a great learning experience and I hope to attend again in the future years. Now---OFF TO THE JOB SEARCH 2.0.

Job Search

Woah...Its been quite hectic lately....getting everything together for the beginning stages of my job search.

First, I had a meeting with a Dallas News Director about two weeks ago. It was interesting, he had some good advice of which I took into account and changed my resume tape up a bit. I also met with Kent Collins, he is a professor at the J-school. We met about cover letters, resumes, resume DVD and the state of the biz and what not. It was really informative.

My website (www.NickGuillory.com) is pretty much done and ready to be presented, I am still adding things to it here and there whenever I get new samples.

Last week, I anchored the morning show on Friday...I love anchoring the morning show---it's so fun and Lauren is a trip. She had me laughing and having a lot of fun doing it. If I ever got the chance to anchor a permanent show, I would definitely pick mornings over evenings. But, right now I just want to focus on reporting---telling people's stories.

I also had the time to go to Jos A. Bank and pick out some new suits for the search and just for the career. They had a pretty good deal and they are really friendly there..I'll definitely keep them in mind in times to come.

That's all for today...this week upcoming I am preparing myself for Las Vegas and RTNDA conference. I still have a few things to finish up before that...like this never-ending HFR. :-)

WORK

This week was pretty standard. We worked on posting the 5 & 6 stories to the web when we both arrived in on our shift.

The first story I added stuff too was the Columbia Economy...It was a fairly easy story to work with. I added pictures and posted the video.

I also worked on Candice's live shot...just added video for that one. Cate and I need to tweet more on our shift, we havent been doing that as much now...:( LOL. We'll start back up again tomorrow. I'm working the desk now and I have tweeted a bit.

Our capstone project is going well, we have gathered quite a bit of content and are meeting with Mark Jarvis again this week to try set him up with access to our content. We wanna do more dorm tour videos this week too, since its much warmer out. Christine said she could help us.

See ya soon! I didn't get a chance to set up a meeting time with you yet...I am going to send you a time soon.