Four new anchors have been selected for the FAMU TV-20 live newscast. The newscast will air at 5 p.m. every Monday through Thursday beginning Tuesday, Jan. 18. The anchors are: Jessica Green (weather), Kyle Marcil (sports), Chantale Glover and Nicole Brooks (co-anchors on the main news desk). Students enrolled in the Advanced TV News class offered in the FAMU School of Journalism and Graphic Communication (SJGC) will also produce “Week in Review” shows airing Fridays at 7 p.m.News 20 at Five also will offer daily news updates via Twitter at www.twitter.com/news20at5. FAMU-TV 20 is an educational access channel operated by the SJGC. It reaches more than 80,000 households via Comcast.
Jessica Green, a senior broadcast journalism student from Quincy, Fla., said she knew she wanted to become a television personality after Carmen Cummings-Martin, a former anchor for local CBS affiliate WCTV, spoke to her elementary school class.
“I felt so blessed to be chosen as an anchor for the spring 2011 newscast,” said Green. “It was a goal I’ve had since I arrived at FAMU.”
“This year, we are getting back to the basics,” said Leonard Horton, news director for News 20 at Five. “The Advanced TV News class will focus on good, balanced writing and storytelling. Students need to be able to justify their salaries in a job market where layoffs are looming, and the general public is getting a lot of its news content from bloggers.”