Yesterday I went to CBC News Day at the Vancouver Public Library. It was a one hour workshop talking about the CBC, journalism and the news day. CBC News Day is about 400 kids auditioning and the CBC picking 30 of them and then those 30 students get a $1000 scholarship and get to try out different aspects of the CBC like, writing, broadcasting, radio, etc,. Every time they said CBC Radio-Canada, the speaker on the videos said it with a harsh french accent and I really liked it. It sounds sweet.
Anyway, next Sunday I'll be auditioning! I have to pick an original news story and pitch it to people who work at the CBC. It's recorded and everything so it should be pretty cool! I'm excited for it but I'm nervous about actually picking a story. What will be interesting enough, can I get an entire story out of it, etc,. The cool thing though is that I can pick something from Hope! (I asked to make sure.) I also don't want to do a story that I think is going to be too mainstream. Like, bullying or depression, etc,. I'm going to take a drive around Hope to see if I can find anything interesting.
One of the speakers, I believe her last name was Goodsaul? Something like that. Was telling us about how her first story was just something that she had questions about. She had to take the Skytrain and there were little screens that were supposed to say how long it took for the next train to come but when she phoned to see why they weren't working apparently Translink had bought the system and it didn't even work! It was her first big story when she started working at CBC and it just came to her because she asked questions.
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