Tupelo students are getting the hands-on experience needed for the news industry.
Posted: Apr 5, 2021 4:51 PM
Updated: Apr 5, 2021 4:53 PM
Posted By: Alexis Jones
TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - Tupelo High School is preparing the next generation of broadcast journalists.
The school’s broadcasting class and WTHS, a student-produced news program, is helping students gain the skills needed before they can start reporting professionally.
THS students Riley Miller (left) and Aaliyah Cooper receiving hands-on expereince.
THS student Lucy Johnston behind the anchor desk.
THS students Riley Miller (sitting) and Ava Lacey.
Teacher, and former WTVA anchor, Katrina Berry-Ivy said students report, shoot, edit and produce weekly stories about events on campus and in the community.
Middlesex Corner Primary School Principal Barbara Dawkins (2nd right) and her students Victoria Reid (left) and Raneil Clarke (right) happily accepted 15 tablets from Jervene Simpson, Regional Public Relations Manager at Sandals and Beaches Negril during the Sandals Foundation Lessons Alive tablet handover to schools.
Some 150 students from Hanover and Westmoreland join the more than 1,400 students across the island who will be able to get online for classes and take advantage of distance learning instructions following the donation of digital tablets from the Sandals Foundation.
The students are from 11 schools in the Hanover and Westmoreland namely: Cave Valley Primary, Middlesex Corner Primary, Bethel Primary, Claremont All-Age, Cacoon Primary, Brownsville Primary and Infant, St. Simon Primary, Riverside Primary, Success Primary, Kendal Primary and Ferris Primary.