CHRIS GLOFF
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
WEB & SOCIAL MEDIA
In November 2024, I was fortunate to meet with Chicago news media on the red carpet of the 66th Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards, ask fun questions while conducting brief "tiny mic" interviews and post some clips to the Chicago/Midwest Emmy social media pages. The opportunity was unscripted and casual, and during this preshow opportunity, I introduced myself to the award attendees, struck up conversations, thought of questions on the spot and conducted these quick interviews. To say it was fun is an understatement, and everyone was incredibly polite and patient with me. As a student journalist, this opportunity presented me with a chance to hone my interviewing skills and learn to find a balance between thinking of the next question while listening and concentrating on what people were saying to me. These clips demonstrate some of my abilities as a live interviewer early in my student journalist career and provide me with a baseline to look back on as I work to grow as a journalist.
During COVID quarantine, our high school TV news staff had a lot of time to discuss where we each sourced our news. All answers pointed to vertical formatting for social media. We started to pitch ideas and design a template. That template would go on to become our Snapchat newscast, CPTV News QuickCUT. This roughly five minute newscast features local, national and international news and sports with a quick regional weather forecast. The November 11, 2021 newscast went on to be awarded the NATAS National Student Production Award and our January 23, 2023 also won our 2nd NSPA in a row. This November 3rd, 2022 episode, like all our episodes, concludes with plugs to the program's other social media sites.
The fastest news delivery flows through social media. Often, the message is distorted or not factual and often published by a bystander on the street...not a skilled journalist. Further, social media helps journalists build relationships and trust with our audience. Below are some examples in which I used X to connect and engage with those who followed CPTV News and TheDOGRadio.com.
Crown Town Media is the name of my high school media program at CPHS which includes our TV broadcast, radio, newspaper, yearbook and record label programs. Roughly six years ago, all of our media programs converged together and began the process of multi-media convergence. In November 2023, our school networks and servers were hacked and held for ransom (true story). We took this opportunity to rebuild and rebrand. Below is a screenshot of our website which went live in January 2023. The staff continues to build content and all staff are responsible for connecting stories to other forms of media and their individual professional social media accounts as well. I'm was responsible for uploading newscasts, collaborating with the newspaper staff and routinely updating our social media feeds.
