Just For TV Teachers

It’s the 20th season of “HTV Magazine” and we have decided to mark the occasion with an absolutely insane spring trip.

We will load up all 19 HTV staffers, six chaperones, and our trusty bus driver on March 18. We’ll head east on a 12-day journey to Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Virginia Beach, Charlotte, Nashville, Memphis, and plenty of points in between. Each step of the way, we will shoot stories, take photos, write blogs, and upload it all to our website. We will also send the video segments to Apple’s K-12 iTunes site.

This is the ultimate journalism field trip, one that’s been in the works since the fall of 2007. The funding is coming along, although we’re not quite at our goal just yet. Hey, we’ve got a month!

If you or your students would like to play along with this “Where In the World Is HTV?” experience, they can send us feedback during the 12 days of the trip, and even in the weeks that follow. The htvmagazine.com website will make it all possible, thanks to the hard work of our web manager, Mike Teuber. We will accept written responses, and video responses.

For those of you who produce a daily newscast, you will appreciate our challenges as we plan to shoot and edit three packages a day, for 12 days straight. The stories will be diverse, just like our audience. I just hope they’ll be good.

We hope you’ll check in with us now and then, and feel free to participate, or encourage your students to do so. We can’t wait to see America from a bus, with cameras and mics in hand, as we seek out those golden story nuggets that, in the spirit of Charles Kuralt, Steve Hartman and Bob Dotson, are waiting for us just down the road a bit.

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