Newscast #6 - Glenn Kittle - Fall 2019

For our last show, we did a special edition newscast on mental health. I was very excited to delve into this topic because I myself had mental health issues as a student-athlete in high school. I was able to schedule an interview with sport psychologist Dr. Dayna Charbonneau to talk more about the mental health issues that Division I athletes experience daily. 

I learned a lot about the struggles that athletes go through from Dr. Charbonneau and started to edit my package. Although it wasn’t the most visual story, I pulled clips from older packages to give my story a little more life. It was a late night doing this one; I was almost up until four in the morning. But I’m really excited to see how it turned out.

The last show went amazing as usual. It was bittersweet, but overall WVU News was one of the best experiences of my life. I want to thank everyone from production, to the TAs, to Professor Dahlia for making this class worthwhile. I’ve learned so much from so many people and I can’t thank everyone enough for the constant support they have given to me this final newscast. Hopefully I get to work with my fellow newsies in the future.