Broadcast Re-Write

JOURNALISM ATLAS MERGE-PKG

Reporter—Brittany Anas
Anchor—Mindy Rappoport

Anchor (on set in studio)—From “Cuts in” to “at ATLAS.”

Shot of students working in an ATLAS lab (during a class) with reporter VO—From “Last year” to “also journalism students.”

A-roll of Voakes, but with reporter VO—From “Journalism school Dean” to “future,” but when get to Voakes’s quote, enable sound from the clip so he can say it (in other words, Voakes is talking in background but viewers can’t hear him until reporter finishes her VO and he says, “There’s…”)

Shot of Lauren working in ATLAS lab and talking to reporter, but with reporter VO (so it’s also A-roll)—From “Lauren Brown” to “candidate,” but again, when get to Brown’s quote, enable sound from the clip so she can say it (in other words, Brown is talking in the background while working in the lab but viewers can’t hear her until the reporter finishes VO and Brown says, “I think.”)

Reporter in front of ATLAS: Entire “According to budget” sentence.

Cuts in Colorado’s higher education budget may soon be affecting the way journalism and technology students earn their degrees.

The University of Colorado may combine the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society in order to save money.

Both programs are facing dramatic budget cuts—by about 8 percent in the journalism school and 10 percent at ATLAS.

Last year, a CU Boulder task force started studying whether the journalism school should merge with other parts of the university like ATLAS to form a broader “school of information.”

According to a preliminary task force report, more than 25 schools of information have been created at similar universities across the nation.

The proposed merge is a natural extension of the direction that the two programs are taking now. Of more than 402 ATLAS students, more than a quarter are also journalism students.

Journalism school Dean Paul Voakes said that many journalism students are interested in technology’s role in the media.

Paul Voakes: There’s a very active interest that our students have in the Technology, Arts and Media program. It’s a very good sign for things we can accomplish in the future.

Lauren Brown is one of those journalism advertising students involved in the Technology, Arts and Media program.

Lauren Brown: I think that with emerging digital media being so present in advertising and journalism, you have to have these skills to be a marketable candidate.

According to budget documents, the proposed merge could result in at least one job loss.

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