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Monday, October 26, 2015

On Monday morning, we participated in a workshop called “Girls, Body Image, and the Media” at The Paley Center for Media.

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In the afternoon, we Skyped with Ben Solomon, a video journalist for The New York Times.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Tuesday morning, we were up early. Students met at Renaissance at 6:30am so that we could make it for a live screening of Democracy Now!. We also had a studio tour along with a conversation with their Education Department.

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After an enjoyable lunch break in Central Park, we headed to ABC News Studio, where me met with Michael Koenigs, a story developer for ABC 20/20 and Primetime.

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

On Wednesday morning, we took a guided tour of the Museum of the Moving Image‘s main exhibit. We learned how to make stop motion animation…

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…checked out some other parts of the main exhibit…

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…and then did a workshop called “Making Political Campaign Ads.”

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It was a rainy afternoon, but we made it into Manhattan to visit Ben Solomon’s colleague, Kassie Bracken, at The New York Times. Like Ben, Kassie is also a video journalist. After giving us a tour of The Times office, she brought us into a conference room and showed us some of her videos and we discussed her work.

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

On Thursday morning, we took a tour of NBC studio, where we made our own talk show!

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We couldn’t take pictures on our tour of the studio, but we did get videos of the talk shows we made! Our middle schoolers made one show, and the high schoolers had another. Click to view (but hurry! only available on the NBC website for a limited time:

Talk show 1

Talk Show 2

Heading south, we enjoyed a lovely lunch in Union Square, and concluded our day with a tour of

The Huffington Post office, and a meeting with reporter Melissa Jeltsen, who gave us some tips on “how to be an awesome reporter.”

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Lunch Break Pics:

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Brought to you by…….

Students:

Giselle Ibanez

Samantha Rodriguez

Elena Saca

Cynthia Tavarez

Allyson Espinal

Natalia Bustamante

Roksana Hossain

Gaurav Gupta

Sushanna Ojha

Jamling Sherpa

Destiny Solis

Vivian Batista

Nusrat Kama

Murray Melnick

Teacher-Leaders:

Amanda Scott

Elinora Owen-Fardig