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Merle's visit at WXYZ, channel 7


Last Tuesday Merle was invited to join Jack on a tour of WXYZ, channel 7.
This tour was guided by Colleen Clement, Executive Producer at WXYZ-TV as part of the Open world Leadership program of the International visitors’ council, Detroit. The Open World Program is an initiative of and funded by the United States Congress that builds mutual understanding between the emerging leaders of participating countries and their U.S. counterparts. It also exposes delegates to ideas and practices they can adapt for use in their own work. The IVC Detroit acts as a liaison between international visitors and their Detroit-area counterparts each year.


For this program six journalists from the country of Georgia were invited to the United States to explore Detroit and its world of journalism.


The tour at channel 7 started with a roundtable discussion, joined by an investigative producer and a social media reporter. During the roundtable each journalist was given the opportunity to introduce his work from back in Georgia, and to ask about journalism practices here in the United States.

One part that was very interesting but also shocking was how differently journalism is treated in Georgia. One reporter told a story about how her entire office and work got destroyed as she was investigating on influential people in Georgia who were violating the law. Her whole news team did not receive any help on finding the responsible people and had to try to get their office back running with the help of donations, and other journalists who were publishing their stories.



The roundtable discussions were followed by a tour through the studio, and ended by watching the filming of the channel 7 live at noon news. This was a once in a lifetime experience for the whole group as they were allowed to sit in the studio while the news were being filmed. Afterwards they visited the ‘control room’ and were able to see how the behind the scenes people operate. Everything had to be on time and the news studio was displayed on several screens to oversee every action during air-time. The tour ended by a quick chat with the news acnhors.


Overall this was a very unique experience and a great day thanks to Jack and the WXYZ-TV- team.







 


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