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Newscast #3- Issac Zivkovic- Fall 2017

Another two weeks have come and gone and the newscast, I’m pleased to say, has come out still better than the one before. While I typically have some remark or comparison to deliver I have to say my diction falls short in this case. Many of those who struggled early on seemed to find their footing this time and others who were on the cusp of making show, finally found their way to the light. Even those who didn’t came a close second, making my role difficult in a new and less expected way.

The pitches at the news meeting have become a thing of pure instinct, it would seem. Like a well-oiled machine, everyone knows precisely what the expectations are and how to put across their ideas in an effective way. I would stop short of calling the process perfect but it is just one of the many ways we have collectively moved forward. Writing conferences went over, by all reports, with similar ease compared to the first two. This time the appointments were spread across 2 days which put a little more on Kassy Taylor’s plate but it was a task she was more than prepared to handle 

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Newscast #2- Issac Zivkovic- Fall 2017

          It’s hard to believe that 14 days have passed and our second newscast is in the books. A fortnight felt like a matter of a few days. I’m told a distortion of the sense of time is symptomatic of either very stimulating or very difficult events. I would submit that, in this case, it was some combination of the two.

          While I don’t need to recap the entire process, there were many parts of it that felt very different than before. I would say the most poignant feeling I took away from Newscast 2 was a sense of evolving – of turning the page as a team. Maybe this is just my former dedication to the study of history welling up, but I can’t help recalling the words of Winston Churchill: “This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end. But, perhaps it is the end of the beginning.”

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