Teaching TV News Students in a Time of Distance Learning
Original Airdates: Aug. 14-16, 2020
TVC 504.3: Ed welcomes back Steve Beverly, television historian and professor of communications arts at Union University (Jackson, TN), where he coordinates the Broadcast Journalism major and supervises the daily student-produced newscast, Jackson 24/7. Steve discusses the challenges that he and his students faced earlier this year, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced classes at Union to go online—as well as the game plan that he and his colleagues have in place as the school prepares to resume in-classroom teaching this fall.
Steve Beverly also hosts Steve Beverly’s TV Classics, a weekly TCM-like festival of classic shows from the 1950s and ‘60s that streams every week from EPlusTV Channel 6 in Jackson.
COVID-19 and the Mental Health of TV News Journalists
Original Airdates: Aug. 14-16, 2020
TVC 504.4: Steve Beverly, journalism professor at Union University (Jackson, TN) and a former news director and on-air correspondent for WBBJ-TV, talks to Ed about the toll that covering the daily COVID-19 news cycle can take on the mental health of reporters.
A member of the National Association on Mental Illness, Steve Beverly is ready, willing and able to speak to any television news operation in America about depression, as well as recognizing and coping with surviving vulnerabilities to mental illness in one of the most rewarding but highest-stress professions: TV news. Contact Steve directly for more information about the seminars and webinars that he provides.
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