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Josh Rushing and some of us
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| Josh Rushing speaking at the UCO Media Ethics Conference |
This past week, UCO hosted a Media
Ethics Conference, where key speakers came to our school and did speeches and
panels for students in the media to come learn from them and sharpen their
ethics ideas. My favorite of the speakers was Josh Rushing, host of Fault Lines
on Al Jazeera America.
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Meredith Marney, UCentral News, interviews
Josh Rushing |
He spoke to us about his journey to
for the public, to keep them informed and
updated.
where he is now, a reporter and host of a show on a prominent network that
isn't afraid to ask the RIGHT questions, from being an American Marine. There
were some key things he said that spoke with me: one, “do the right things for
the right reasons.” He talked about how he learned this in the Marines, and how
in journalism, ethics can sometimes be blurred. It’s important to ask the right
questions, and tell the public what they need to know when they need to know
it, instead of shielding them because it’s easier. The second thing that really
spoke to me was “Be a story-teller and a content creator.” This really struck
home to me since I am a producer, and we write the majority of the show as well
as assign the reporters their stories. I want to grow to be able to tell
stories with my writing and not have a lot of filler stories that don’t really
help anyone. This could apply to news as well as blogging as a journalist.
I feel very fortunate that we had
the opportunity to hear this man speak. He was also very supportive
of us
student broadcasters. Some of us were live-tweeting the speech and took
pictures and interviews with him and posted them. About an hour later, every
one of my post, as well as many others, were either Favorited or Retweeted, which meant a lot to
every one of us.
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